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No surprise in surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... resigned after the weekend's budget negotiations collapsed. Rutte proposed around 9.5 billion in budget cuts to trim its 4.6% of GDP budget deficit forecast for 2013 to 3.0% as demanded by the European Commission. Opposition parties claimed it would ...

Australian private wealth firm selects US property

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... by oil and energy, defence, education and agriculture," said Toll. "The state has a population of 26.4 million people and a GDP that is roughly the size of Australia's at $1.332 trillion." The Equiti US Multifamily Property Fund was launched in 2011 ...

What price surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... negative sign in front of small number outweighs that of having a plus sign in front of an equally small number. Australian real GDP expanded by only 1.6% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of last year - half the Treasury's assumption of 3.25% (trend) ...

Best friends forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... true, it's economy is re-accelerating. The rumour mill says that a Chinese government researcher thought first quarter China's GDP will print at 9% when it is released later today. There may be some disappointment here though because as far as I gather ...

The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... in advanced. (In the US, an inverted yield curve had "always" been followed by a recession). Average annual Australian real GDP growth slowed to 2.6% in 2001 from 3.2% in the previous year. It eased from 4.7% in 2007 to 2.5% in 2008 and then to 1.4% ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... surplus increased by a more than expected US$5.35 billion in March. Surplus? Slowing? Duh! A trade surplus is a contribution to GDP growth. Now there may be some truth in this if both exports and imports were dropping. A surplus could still be had if ...

Govt bonds reach $237bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... government, according to figures published by the Australian Debt Clock. Australia's central government debt at less than 20% of GDP is remarkably low by world standards, coming it at around 100th place depending which research group does the rankings. ...

Boring same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012
... recent indicators suggesting that the US economy is gaining momentum, the OECD would be remiss if it hadn't done so. US real GDP growth confirms this - unrevised at an annualised rate of 3.0% in the fourth quarter with consumer spending also unchanged ...

A surplus in 2012/13, and then what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... Budget Papers show the government expects the underlying cash balance to fall from a deficit of A$49.4 billion (3.6 per cent of GDP) to A$22.6 billion (1.5 per cent of GDP) shortfall in fiscal 2011/12. And as promised, this shortfall will then turn into ...

Cayman Islands hedge fund reforms on-track

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
... there. Making the reforms highly sensitive, however, is that the financial services sector drives an estimated 55% of the GDP and accounts for 40% of its employment. "Cayman is now strengthening regulatory requirements by insisting that Cayman domiciled ...