This will move the region from a current-account deficit to a surplus, causing the demand for dollars to subside.

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Demand for raw materials and the related trade surplus, a surge in the Australian dollar and increase in interest rates are twisting the economy, strengthening western mining regions while undercutting tourism and nonmining industries.

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The economy also grew faster than expected, fuelling demand and eroding the power surplus South Africa enjoyed for years.

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Still, the further the currency sinks, and the higher are the rates that investors demand for rolling over the debt, the bigger is the surplus needed to stabilise the debt ratio.

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In the past we have argued that colleges have produced a surplus of college graduates (at least in terms of the labor market demand for workers with a college education).

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Surplus countries should allow and reinforce expansion in their domestic economies to stimulate demand for imports while deficit countries were supposed to tighten domestic conditions and policies to stimulate exports relative to imports.

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The Australian trade surplus unexpectedly slipped during July possibly hinting at weakening overseas demand and further blunting demand for the local dollar.

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But another way it can get around the apparently growing demand for stolen client data in Europe is to spread its wealth management operations farther eastward, where surplus-wielding governments are not as desperate to rake in tax revenue by targeting tax evaders.

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