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Time to stop the rot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... a corresponding 40.6% dive in the country's current account surplus. The downward revision in Japan's second quarter real GDP growth to an annualised rate of 0.7% -- half the 1.4% rate in the original estimate - only hammers in the country's dour situation. ...

Australia: all good and wishing for the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2012
... slowing" says BusinessDay. "Still growing strong, without the feelgood factor," according to The Age. "No more rolled gold GDP," cries Stephen Koukoulas in Business Spectator. Call in the usual suspects. There's slowing growth in China, tepid growth ...

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... into effect in May and previous efforts to weaken its currency. What does Brazil have to show for all these? Brazil's real GDP improved to an annual rate of 1.6% in the second quarter, four times the 0.4% annual rate in Q1 and a 0.6% annual rate of contraction ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... only has two A's. Australia has a lower budget deficit. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) predicts a shortfall of 0.7% of GDP at the end of this year -- more than 10 times that of Uncle Sam's minus 7.6% But it's not only Australia, I received news ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2012
... dollar eased slightly from the gains it made in New York on the back of an upward revision of American gross domestic product (GDP) growth, while the euro was mixed after supportive comments by Germany and China for the single currency. Tokyo fell by ...

The QE question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... housing, industrial production and the index of leading economic indicators have shown improvement. And just last night, US real GDP growth was revised higher to an annualised rate of 1.7% in the June quarter from the initial estimate of 1.5%. Not much ...

Limboland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012

Fall on the Wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... during the third quarter of 2012" and that, "Taken together, the July and August readings would historically be consistent with GDP falling by around 0.5%-0.6% quarter-on-quarter." So there, fading hopes for a QE and stalling global economy as "The Age" ...

Dull night on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
... indications show that the festering problems in the region are impacting activity in the two biggest countries - German real GDP growth eased to 0.3% in the June quarter from 0.5%, France showed no growth in both quarters - the latest reading are in ...

Sun setting on the Land of the Rising Sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012