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You go NZ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... statement, is because, "New Zealand's economic expansion has considerable momentum, and growth is becoming more broad-based. GDP is estimated to have grown by 3.3 percent in the year to March." How much momentum? A few clicks on my Factset screen showed ...

Never good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... that "gross operating surplus" (profits) of private non-financial institutions contributed 0.9 percentage points to nominal GDP and "compensation of employees" (wages) added 0.5 percentage points. In simple terms company profits are rising - good for ...

When saving goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... and in 1985 (Australia escaped the technical definition of a recession back then only because a positive March quarter 1986 GDP growth came between the contractions in the Q4 1985 and Q2 1986). You know where I'm heading to next, don't you? Yup, the ...

More to Asia than just Chindia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... is just as big and growing at a similar rate. SEA comprises 14 countries located between Australia and China with combined GDP of A$2.7 trillion and a population of 620 million. Attention turning towards SEA helps explain the 55% increase in merger and ...

G-20 goes for growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... sustainability and financial sector stability, to "significantly raise" global growth and achieve its aim of increasing collective GDP in the next five years." (Bloomberg) They're going to "lift global economic activity by $US2 trillion ($A2.2 trillion) ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... would nearly double to 270 trillion yen ($2.9 trillion) by the end of 2014". Don't even need the third one it seemed - real GDP bounded at an annualised rate of 4.3% and 3.8% in the first and second quarters of last year, respectively. All good until...... ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... explaining away the negatives. There surely wouldn't be any difficulty explaining investors' love for Europe. Eurozone real GDP growth accelerated to 0.3% in the first quarter from 0.1% in the December quarter, taking the annual growth rate up to 0.5% ...

Regulation holding financial services back: Brogden

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... to effectively export its financial services business. In the FSC's Budget submission, Brogden pointed out that at 8.7% of GDP, financial services is the largest sector in the economy. "Our financial services industry is diverse, innovative, scalable ...

ISA pushes for full transparency

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
... APRA's move towards increased transparency requirements. "The superannuation industry holds assets worth more than the nation's GDP and is of vital importance to Australia's future retirement income and investment," Whiteley said. "The industry benefits ...

Global economy on a knife edge

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014