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ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... developments." Recent indicators suggest that the transmission mechanism might be beginning to transmit. For instance, Spanish real GDP growth accelerated to 0.4% in the March quarter - the fastest pace in 6 years -- from 0.2% in the previous three-month ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... and I generally believe that a significant part of the recent softness was weather related." Indeed! US first quarter real GDP growth stalled in the first quarter, up by an itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie 0.1% in the first quarter - and this folks, is an annualised ...

Bubbling bubble?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... were some fresh data out of the US overnight but they provided nada direction for Wall Street. The third estimate of US real GDP growth was revised higher from an annual rate of 2.4% previously to 2.6% but this was less than expectations for an upgrade ...

You go NZ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... grown by 3.3 percent in the year to March." How much momentum? A few clicks on my Factset screen showed me that NZ's real GDP growth accelerated to 3.1% in the year to the September quarter last year (the latest available) from 2.3% in the same quarter ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... would nearly double to 270 trillion yen ($2.9 trillion) by the end of 2014". Don't even need the third one it seemed - real GDP bounded at an annualised rate of 4.3% and 3.8% in the first and second quarters of last year, respectively. All good until...... ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... explaining away the negatives. There surely wouldn't be any difficulty explaining investors' love for Europe. Eurozone real GDP growth accelerated to 0.3% in the first quarter from 0.1% in the December quarter, taking the annual growth rate up to 0.5% ...

OMTs - one year on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... improvement in the region's economy. This is no better highlighted than in the Eurozone's National Accounts that showed real GDP growth expanded by 0.3% in the second quarter - the first expansion in the economy after one and half years of contraction.A ...

Wonderully dreadful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... refer to the Australian economy's growth rate in the second quarter.A The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that real GDP grew by 0.6% in the June quarter and 2.5% over the year. Wonderful!A The economy's picking up pace from the 0.5% (quarterly) ...

30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... decent growth despite offshore volatility and domestic uncertainty - tomorrow's National Accounts is expected to show real GDP growth of 0.6% in the second quarter (2.5% year-on-year) - what more with the reduction/elimination of these. But boo hoo hoo.A ...

September morn' or September mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... down from 7.3% in January 1993 to 5.5% by December 1994.A And why not, America's economic growth was going gangbusters. Real GDP grew at an average year-on-year pace of more than 4.0% in 1994, up from an average of 2.7% in the previous year.A And inflation?A ...