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Onto the next worry: Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013
... retreating from record peaks last week. Tokyo stocks ended down 0.70 per cent, or 95.76 points, to 13,519.43 after second-quarter GDP figures revealed that Japan's economic growth had slowed more than analysts expected. Other Asian markets fared better ...

Curve ahead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013

Let the baby kissing pictures begin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... following gains on Wall Street after data showed second-quarter US gross domestic product grew better than had been expected. US GDP grew 1.7 per cent in the quarter, above the 1.1 per cent pace expected by analysts. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve's ...

India's triple dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
... tighter policy and a dearer rupee. And then there's the ballooning current account deficit -it hit a record high of 6.7% of GDP in the December quarter of last year- that needs both: a cheaper currency on the trade account and a stable (if not a higher ...

Data diarrhoea

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013

The tale of two PMIs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... public servants - the greater the toll on its growth. Latest data show that as at the first quarter of this year, Greece's GDP shrank by 7.5% after contracting by 9.2% in the previous one. That's no longer a recession...it's a depression. The problem ...

Economy 'not running out of puff': Wayne Swan

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... cannot rely on unfettered growth in China to support the mining sector but Australia, following 22 years of uninterrupted GDP growth, was well placed to take advantage of enormous structural shifts occurring in the Asia Pacific region. "Australia's continuing ...