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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 ...

So bad it's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
... that is, if one could try to stop oneself from laughing at the spinmeisters. Wall Street frets about first quarter US real GDP being revised from an annualised growth of 0.1% to an annualised contraction of 0.5% they said when the stock indices - big ...

In with the old, out with the new

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... tech stocks dipped. Guess what the spin du jour was? It's anxiety over what the recalibration of the first quarter US real GDP report would bring tomorrow. Here's Bloomberg's take: Wall Streeters fear that US growth in the March quarter would be revised ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... might have been too easy for the Fed to justify its steady taper as she goes despite the National Accounts showing that real GDP growth slowed to a snail dragging a very heavy object pace - 0.1% -- in the first quarter from 2.6% in the previous one ...

Moving on up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... infrastructures, homes and lives continues. As expected, the calamity sliced half a percent off the country's economic growth - real GDP slowed to 6.5% in the fourth quarter of last year from 7.0% in the September quarter. Yet despite this deceleration ...

BOE qualifies for World Cup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... (BOE) should have been lifting interest rates... yesterday. Let us count the ways... Economic growth is accelerating. Real GDP expanded by 3.1% in the year to the March quarter from 2.7% before that and 1.8% before this. The outlook is even better with ...

Masseurs Tony and Joey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... feared 0.3 - 0.5 percentage point subtraction. The growth estimates contained in the Budget papers are conservative. Real GDP is forecast to ease from 2.75% in 2013/14 to 2.5% next fiscal year before accelerating to 3.0% in 2015/16. More conservative ...