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UK on the go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... 2012 rebounded in September 2012 and before shrinking anew in December of 2012 - to now, the fastest growing G7 country. UK GDP grew by 3.1% in the year to the March quarter this year - nearly double the 1.7% rate King handed over to Carney in the June ...

Australia among the big guns in millionaire stakes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... charge in the millionaire stakes were the economic powerhouses of the US, China and Japan (the three largest economies by gross GDP respectively). Rounding out the top five were the UK and Switzerland. The other countries ahead of Australia in descending ...

Indian optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... from 2005 to 2008. These, despite the unemployment rate at a high 9.9% (2012), its budget deficit predicted to reach 5.2% of GDP this year by The Economist magazine - from 4.5% in FY 2013/14 - and stubbornly high inflation.A Annual Indian CPI inflation ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... the economy's long-term trend of around 3.25 per cent. IG market strategist Evan Lucas said initial market reaction to the GDP (gross domestic product) figures was positive but then tapered off. "It (the headline GDP figure) is a good read but there ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... spending and voila... Houston, we have another problem!... and is not as if the euro area's economy is going gangbusters either. GDP inched up by only 0.2% in the March quarter after inching up a similar 0.2% in the three months to December. Unemployment's ...

Double boo boo on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
... expanding. Not only that...A my previous investigation of the correlation between the ISM manufacturing index and that of US GDP showed it isn't until the index fall to readings of around 43 (and below) that the overall economy stops expanding. After ...

So bad it's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
... that is, if one could try to stop oneself from laughing at the spinmeisters. Wall Street frets about first quarter US real GDP being revised from an annualised growth of 0.1% to an annualised contraction of 0.5% they said when the stock indices - big ...

In with the old, out with the new

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... tech stocks dipped. Guess what the spin du jour was? It's anxiety over what the recalibration of the first quarter US real GDP report would bring tomorrow. Here's Bloomberg's take: Wall Streeters fear that US growth in the March quarter would be revised ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... might have been too easy for the Fed to justify its steady taper as she goes despite the National Accounts showing that real GDP growth slowed to a snail dragging a very heavy object pace - 0.1% -- in the first quarter from 2.6% in the previous one ...

Moving on up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... infrastructures, homes and lives continues. As expected, the calamity sliced half a percent off the country's economic growth - real GDP slowed to 6.5% in the fourth quarter of last year from 7.0% in the September quarter. Yet despite this deceleration ...