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It's happening

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013

Public pension liabilities add to eurozone debt woes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... member countries, according to new research by the EDHEC-Risk Institute. The institute says that Maastricht treaty debt-to-GDP targets are too simplistic given the variety in size and reach of each member's pension systems. As structural deficits come ...

Good, better, best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... coming month. As per Markit, "Prospects also look good for the upturn to be sustained in coming months, meaning both growth of GDP and non-farm payroll are likely to accelerate in the first quarter." Many will recall my preaching that "one swallow does ...

ANZ opens new branch in China

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
... the trade and logistics hub for China's East Coast. The economy in Hangzhou has rapidly developed with double-digit annual GDP growth rate over the past two decades.

Beggar me not my neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... data out of China - from retail spending to industrial production - indicates that it's cleared for take off again. Chinese GDP will be released later today and is expected to show annual growth accelerating to 7.8% in the December quarter from 7.4% ...

Structural shifts reposition EMs as less risky investments

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013
... Eastern Europe has rarely been so secularly robust as it is now, particularly in comparison to many developed countries." GDP growth, foreign exchange reserve accumulation, current account surpluses, a growing middle class, robust fiscal and monetary ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013
... on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was down 11 points at 4,4681. Germany's gross domestic product (GDP) experienced a fourth-quarter 0.5 per cent contraction, bringing full-year growth to just 0.7 per cent, the federal statistics ...

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... predictions of a double-dip in America and a hard landing in China that gained currency last year. To be sure, to be sure, US real GDP growth slowed to an annualised rate of 1.3% in the June quarter of 2012, but that's no recession my friends and it ...

China primed for encouraging rebound: HSBC

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
While global demand is likely to remain fragile, HSBC maintains its above-consensus forecast that China's 2013 GDP growth will recover to 8.6% after bottoming out in the fourth quarter of 2012. Much of HSBC's projected China rebound in 2013 and beyond ...

Good US housing news gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
... local manufacturers is why US economists are getting excited that the house construction sector could be a net contributor to GDP growth for the first time since 2005. The Federal Reserve echoes these results with just released survey figures showing ...