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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 ...

International media question Australia's "austerity budget"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... added that "this is not Greece, Portugal or Spain." Australia's budget deficit is about 3% of its gross domestic product (GDP), public debt is less than 20% of GDP and unemployment is 5.8%. "You look around you here and it doesn't feel like a country ...

BOE qualifies for World Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... (BOE) should have been lifting interest rates... yesterday. Let us count the ways... Economic growth is accelerating. Real GDP expanded by 3.1% in the year to the March quarter from 2.7% before that and 1.8% before this. The outlook is even better with ...

Masseurs Tony and Joey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... tight that it chokes Australia's economic growth to death. It's now expected to detract only 0.1 percentage point from 2014/15 GDP growth, not the feared 0.3 - 0.5 percentage point subtraction. The growth estimates contained in the Budget papers are ...

Budget a 'missed opportunity': ISA

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... care and health costs. Due to an ageing population, over the next 50 years it is expected that these three areas share of GDP will soar from 7.6% to 13.3% which is clearly unsustainable." Read Financial Standard's coverage of the budget here.

Budget speech 2014 -15

... protect our people and strengthen our borders. The Government is committed to building defence spending to two per cent of GDP within a decade and by the middle of next year the Government will have a new strategic plan for the defence of the nation. ...

ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... Central Bank president Mario Draghi yesterday, but we would have had the Fed's policy announcement and America's first quarter GDP growth update not drowned out the latest reading on eurozone inflation. And it was good - well, sort of. Euro area inflation ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... 9,603.23 points and in Paris the CAC 40 shed 0.23 per cent to 4,487.39. The US Commerce Department said gross domestic product (GDP) rose just 0.1 per cent in the first quarter, well below the 1.0 per cent rise analysts expected. The euro rallied to ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... and I generally believe that a significant part of the recent softness was weather related." Indeed! US first quarter real GDP growth stalled in the first quarter, up by an itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie 0.1% in the first quarter - and this folks, is an annualised ...

Japan's 1997 deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... A¥1.446 trillion. In so much as net exports - exports minus imports - figures in the calculation of gross domestic product (GDP), this is a negative for overall economic growth. Similarly, while it appears that the Japanese government and the BOJ's ...