Goldman trashes Australian “rebalancing”

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Told ya, from CNBC:

Australia is banking on its tourism and education services industry to make up for the economic losses chalked up in the commodities crash, but that story may be overstretched, Goldman Sachs cautioned a report.

Net tourism and education exports have offset only about one-sixth of the decline in bulk commodity export earnings since the first quarter of 2014, the bank’s analysts wrote in the report published on Wednesday.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.