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Sustaining confidence in the Australian financial system: Murray

DAVID MURRAY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... the impact was much more severe. Reinhart and Rogoff suggest that the average cost of a banking crisis is a decline in real GDP per person of 9 per cent and a 7 percentage point increase in unemployment. The equivalent impact on the Australian economy ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... that year, I typed: "Eurostat revealed last night that it discovered that Greece's 2009 budget deficit was 13.6 per cent of GDP - higher than the government's own forecast of 12.9 per cent just two weeks ago and Eurostat's estimates of 12.7 per cent ...

Governor Glenn lets his jaw drop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... that the stable policy settings 'remained appropriate' or something like that". It's because, "... the most recent set of GDP figures, while certainly encouraging, probably overstate somewhat the true ongoing pace of growth in the economy. The Bank's ...

US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... Bullard declared in his interview with Fox Business News last week. At its June meeting, the Fed revised its outlook as follows: GDP growth at 2.1%-2.3% for 2014, down from 2.8%-3.0% predicted in March; the unemployment rate at 6.0% - 6.1% this year ...

James knows when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... they'll start lift-off. Just look at how the Fed changed its outlook in a span of just three months: The June Fed outlook: GDP growth at 2.1%-2.3% for 2014, down from 2.8%-3.0% predicted in March; the unemployment rate at 6.0% - 6.1% this year, down ...

But they said it was Iraq

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... as decent gains particularly given worse than expected updates on the US economy released overnight. First quarter US real GDP growth was revised to show a 2.9% annualised rate of contraction - from the second estimate's minus 1.0% and the first's minus ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... ended flat else you, I and Irene would be reading headlines talkin' 'bout concerns that the third estimate of US first quarter GDP growth is expected to be revised lower from a contraction of 1.0% to 1.8%. Yes Virginia, for there is nothing else to explain ...

Social media business use up 25pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... from the year before", said Sue-Ellen Luke from the ABS. These figures means online sales are now worth an estimated 20% of GDP. Despite initial perceptions that small businesses would rapidly take to social media, the survey revealed that large businesses ...

2014 MAX Award Winners and Finalists

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014

Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
... efficacy and costs of such purchases". That's Aunt Janet talking at her post-meeting press conference. The current Fed outlook: GDP growth at 2.1%-2.3% for 2014, down from 2.8%-3.0% predicted in March; the unemployment rate at 6.0% - 6.1% this year ...