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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013
... to 8,243.81 points. In Paris, the CAC 40 added 0.61 per cent to finish at 3,878.58 points. China's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded by 7.5 per cent in the April-June quarter, official data showed on Monday, a second slowdown in growth in a row. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... expected local gains to be mild until investors saw what was happening in China. Predictions are for gross domestic growth (GDP) for the quarter to be 7.5 per cent, with anything lower set to send the Australian dollar falling below 90 US cents because ...

Designer slowdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... and from 8.3% to 7.7 in 2014? Those are still higher than what the Politburo wants. "Please don't forget that our expected GDP growth rate this year is 7.0%." This was what China's Finance Minister, Lou Jiwei, told his interviewers after attending the ...

Adjusting for adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... that "magic" number that prevents riots since the second quarter of last year. In the first quarter of this year, Chinese GDP grew by 7.7%...but we're used to it now. Slowly we'll get accustomed to another downshift...to around 7.0% -- the new Politburo's ...

Once more from the top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... exit in the near future". And from the one that started it all. Commenting on the downward revision in US first quarter real GDP growth to an annualised rate of 1.8% (from 2.4% previously), Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond president Jeffrey Lacker said ...

The sky is falling downunder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
... global financial crisis - the same year NAB predicted the jobless rate to reach 7% and announced that "For 2009, we expect GDP to shrink by 0.25%- with a number of negative quarters during the year. As such the forecasts imply (moderate) recession in ...

The death of QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... scare more people out of the Aussie, it should put emerging talks of an Australian recession - after the disappointing 0.6% GDP growth in the first quarter - to rest.

More flip flopping ahead for Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... the fresh mints coming. Wall Street up last Thursday because disappointing eco stats - second estimate of first quarter real GDP, jobless claims and pending home sales - imply Ben's printing press will continue to work overtime. The Street down the following ...

Out of sight, out of mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... connection. That is disappointing economic data equals no Fed taper. Hip, hip. The equation. Disappointing US stats - Q1 real GDP growth revised lower to 2.4% from 2.5% (initial estimate) ; jobless claims increased by 10K last week; pending home sales ...

Abenomics strengthens investment ties with Japan

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... is booming in Japan and the occupancy rate is the highest it's been for six years. For the full-year we expect 2% growth in GDP," he explained. Beazley said that Abenomincs is creating an incredibly strong case for Australians to invest in the region ...