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Economic recap: Week to July 30

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... quarter from 1.1% in the previous one. The weighted median CPI inflation sped up to 1.7% from 1.3%. The advance estimate of US GDP growth and the Fed's July FOMC meeting took centre stage last week. The US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported ...

Chief economist update: Not yet time to make a change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
... be registered if the quarterly change were maintained for a full year - both the IMF and the OECD's most recent 2021 US GDP growth forecasts are on the ball, at 6.4% and 6.5%, respectively. The conventional year-over-year measure also provides reason ...

Chief economist update: Confidence contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
... stronger relative to its peer, later confirmed by the OECD 'Economic Outlook' March 2020 quarter interim report. Sure, US GDP growth received the biggest upgrade from the OECD - 3.3 percentage points to 6.5% this year - but this owes a great ...

Chief economist update: Taper talks are premature

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... months, "with weakness concentrated in the sectors most adversely affected by the pandemic". True that. The first estimate of US GDP showed an annualised growth rate of 4.0% which is slower than market expectations for a 4.2% gain. In addition, the year-on-year ...

Chief economist update: Dow 30 thousand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
... - that followed a 5.0% (annualised) fall in the previous quarter. Sure, latest reports show that the second estimate of US GDP rebounded at annualised rate of 33.1% in the third quarter (unrevised from the initial estimate) but the exponentially rising ...

Chief economist update: Australia on top despite recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2020
... the June quarter is small beer compared to the regression in national output in our bigger peers. Over the same period, US GDP growth declined by 9.1%; Japan's economy shrank by 10%; the Eurozone's by 15%; and, that of the United Kingdom by a ...

Chief economist update: Worse news is better news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2020
... now than they were pre the coronavirus pandemic and the negative impact it's having on the US and world economies. US GDP growth plunged at an annualised rate of 32.9% in the June 2020 quarter on top of the 5.0% drop in the first quarter. The latest ...

Chief economist update: The second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... lockdown measures..." A second wave will be more disastrous. The 'OECD Economic Outlook, June 2020' report forecast US GDP growth to plunge by 8.5% this year "if there is another virus outbreak later in the year". This is the numerical equivalent ...

US GDP to contract 6.5%: Fed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... US unemployment will fall to 9.3% in the final three months of the year from 13.3% in May, and decline to 6.5% in 2021. US GDP was projected to contract by 6.5% this year before rebounding 5% next year. "Core inflation would be 1% this year before rising ...

Proceed with caution: Janus Henderson

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
... consequences on a country that relies on personal consumption, he argued, with personal spending accounting for roughly 70% of US GDP. "And still undetermined are the inevitable changes in consumer behaviour brought about by the pandemic that will further ...
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