Australia 3rd-Quarter Export Prices Gain 4%, Imports Unchanged

Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The value of Australian exports rose in the three months through September, a government report showed today.

The export price index advanced 4 percent from the second quarter, the Bureau of Statistics said in a report in Sydney today. Import prices were unchanged. Economists in a Bloomberg News survey forecast a 3.6 percent gain in exports and a 0.5 percent rise in imports.

--With assistance from Daniel Petrie in Sydney. Editors: Brendan Murray, Victoria Batchelor

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