| From Theaustralian.news.com.au: Australia's earnings from exports of mineral and energy products jumped 22 per cent to $42.57 billion in the third quarter of 2008.
The figure was also 63 per cent higher than the year-earlier period, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics reported today.
But Abare's executive director Phillip Glyde said a recent collapse in commodity prices hasn’t been captured in the data as the majority of commodity price falls have occurred since mid September..... Full Article: Source
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