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Nice one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... here) and the volatility in the financial markets intermittent speculations about its future create. The recently released UK GDP figures - down 0.2% in the last quarter of 2011 -- provide evidence that a recession is already underway in Europe while ...

Just replace because with despite

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... per cent and 4.4 per cent, respectively. And while, we're at it, let's not tell the market that the OECD has lowered its UK GDP growth projection to 1.4 per cent (from 1.5 per cent) for 2011 and to 1.8 per cent (from 2.0 per cent) for 2012. So there ...

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... Japanese real GDP collapsed by 8.4 per cent in the year to the March quarter. Almost double the 4.9 per cent contraction in UK GDP during the same period and more than three times the 2.5 per cent shrinkage in America's economy. Japanese monetary and ...

This Week's Market Movers (21-25 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... that the minutes will show that the Monetary Policy Council was leaning more toward a rate cut. Advanced second-quarter UK GDP will also be released. This is expected to rise by 0.2 percent following growth of 0.3 percent in the first quarter. The annualized ...

Daily economic update

... and government spending boosted the economy of the United Kingdom to its fastest quarterly rate of growth in one year. UK GDP expanded by 0.6 per cent in the December quarter, building on the 0.5 per cent rise in the previous quarter. However, the economy ...
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