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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 ...

Only the dead have seen the end of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... quarters of this year - down by 0.2% in the June quarter and down by 0.1% in the first. So with another biggie. France's real GDP slowed to a full stop (zero growth) in the first quarter - second quarter figures not out yet - after a small 0.2% increase ...

'As expected' changing expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... No surprises too on the latest US economic scorecard, if anything it was an upside surprise. The first estimate of US real GDP showed growth jumping to an annualised rate of 4.0% in the June quarter - stronger than consensus expectations for a 3.1% lift ...

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 ...

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 ...