China’s March Exports Rise 18.7% on Year, Boosting Growth Outlook

If exports jump 18.7%, why is surplus less than last month?
If this is the case, the GDP number should come in below 6.5% since falling surplus negatively affects GDP.

Chinese accepted accounting practices, but it looks like the markets took it as a bull.

It jumped 18.7% from a year earlier it states. It's not a true reflection of how exports are doing in the immediate period and is certainly not indicative of whether there is true growth from last month or not.

A reduction in surplus can only mean that exports are still under-performing imports. And if fact might be doing worse since the surplus figure is less than previous month's.

There's a story or agenda that the media wants to tell to 'herd' traders. They'll use whatever headline figure that suits their purpose.

Hmm..markets should of taken this as a bear .. why? As they're are more imports than exports which means there is more supply than demand. We know when ever there is more supply than demand this causes prices to down - trend. Take for instance the SAUDI ARABIA and RUSSIA news where the two parties may come to a conclusion about the production of oil. SAUDI ARABIA is constantly pumping put oil as a result means there Is alot of supply and less demand which drove oil prices in a down - trend. Now Russia may put a rule on how much oil should be pumped out, this will reduce the amount of oil being produced and increase demand , which will in turn, raise the prices of oil , with those of the Canadian Dollar (CAD thrives on oil , so if oil goes up ,CAD goes up) and vica versa.

Can't depend on data coming out of China.

one thing we can depend on is the outlook for china is very bright a lot of brilliant plans have been put in place too many to mention here but well worth researching especially if you trade the AUDUSD

Can't depend on Russia stopping pumping maximum oil output or they will go bust.

"Russia’s economy is highly dependent on exports of commodities with crude oil, petroleum products, and natural gas accounting for 68 percent of total shipments."

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/russia/exports

With china data good or bad. Media know how to spin off the story and reported what the big bosses want them to report refelct to the stock market price movements.