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Minute slip on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... prepared its forecast for the September FOMC meeting was close to expectations, and therefore, the staff's projection for real GDP growth over the remainder of the year was little revised. However, in response to a further rise in the foreign exchange ...

One swallow says it's springtime for Germany

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... them all, finishing 1.6% on the up and up overnight. Not only were markets heartened by its slim escape from recession - real GDP grew by 0.1% in the third quarter reversing the 0.1% contraction in the second - but fresher data "indicated" it's on the ...

Japan did it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... presses - still could not put Humpty back together again. For again, Japan is officially back in technical recession - real GDP contracted by 0.4% in the third quarter that followed a 1.9% fall in the second - it's fourth in six years. Given this latest ...

G20, FTA and Vlad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... jobs." Nearly a year on and we have China's economy on the slow lane, the eurozone in a parking lot (latest figures show real GDP barely moved in the third quarter - up 0.2% from the second and 0.8% year-on-year) and Japan's could show that it's in reverse ...

Real stagflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
Perhaps they cheated and have had a little peep at the data, but last night's advance estimate of US third quarter real GDP growth confirmed the Fed's positive outlook on the economy and gave meat to its decision to end its quantitative easing programme. ...

China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... just that... that China's growth rate would regress "toward the long-run global average (of about 2% growth per year in real GDP per person)". "Slowdowns often occur despite seemingly sound prospects: both Brazil in 1980 and Japan in 1991 looked like ...

Average September on average

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... thinking of trading sanctions for seizure? The news that did it seems to be the upward revision in US second quarter real GDP growth from strong - 4.2% -- to stronger - 4.6% -- annualised quarterly rate. The US bond market also appears to agree. Yields ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... promise that the kitchen sink would come later - was good enough. With the eurozone economy in a coma - second quarter real GDP growth was zero - and low-flation - annual rate of CPI inflation currently at 0.3% (the slowest since September 2009) -- threatening ...

"Pleasant" but...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released this "lucky country's' economic scorecard for the second quarter. Australian real GDP advanced by 0.5% in the three-months to June and 3.1% over the year. Hate me if you will but I'm with smokin' Joe on ...

Recycling the same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... their highest level one month short of a year, weekly jobless claims came in higher than expected and second quarter real GDP growth was revised higher to an annual rate of 4.2% from 4.0%. Stats like these should revive speculation that the Fed's "considerable ...