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Ben's your uncle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... At the end of Feb, Bloomberg wrote this, "Federal spending reductions due to start in March could lower gross domestic product by 0.6 percentage point and cost 750,000 jobs by the end of 2013, according to the CBO". Well hello dolly, higher income taxes ...

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... unfortunately). Malcolm thinks that the reason "Why the Dow peaks and the ASX doesn't?" is because although US "Gross domestic product will be below 2 per cent this year" and "Unemployment is...still 2.5 percentage points higher than it is here, at 7.9 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release national accounts data including gross domestic product for the December quarter. KEY FACTS * At 1027 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 34.4 points, or 0.68 per cent ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... news on Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases national accounts data including gross domestic product for December quarter. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Tuesday closed higher after news that ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... 2,315.14. The Japanese central bank also lifted its growth forecast for the country's economy, predicting gross domestic product would expand 2.3 per cent in the year to the end of March 2014, up from an earlier 1.6 per cent estimate. WELLINGTON - The ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
... cent, marking a second straight year of easing owing to weakness in key overseas markets. It also said gross domestic product grew 7.9 per cent in the October-December period, snapping seven straight quarters of slowing growth. WELLINGTON - New Zealand ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013
... AEDT 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 ...

Rebalancing growth smoothly Australia's key challenge: Bloxham

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... current quarter. It's understood the government rethink on surplus strategy follows revelations that real gross domestic product grew by just 0.5% in the September quarter - the smallest gain in six quarters.

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... the Australian Bureau of Statistics was due to release the September quarter national accounts, including gross domestic product data, at 1130 AEDT. Market consensus was for the economy to have grown 0.6 per cent in the September quarter and 3.1 per ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... investment. So when the Sydney Morning Herald quotes him saying that, "I think we will have a huge drop in GDP (gross domestic product) in early 2013, everything being equal, but it can be mitigated by an aggressive RBA," I shut up and listen. Ahhh... ...