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Nikkei not nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... latest Bank of Japan (BOJ) growth projections. The BOJ have revised its economic forecasts to show a 0.4% contraction in real GDP when Japan's fiscal year ends next month, down from the 0.3% positive growth it predicted only last October. This is not ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... kept investors wary ahead of the start of the local earnings season. Wall Street ended lower after US gross domestic product (GDP) data missed expectations - despite recording its fastest growth rate since the first quarter of 2010 - and more disappointing ...

Super assets soar with 17% annual growth rate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... assets have rocketed up 17% in annual growth rate in ten years to US$1.3 trillion, or the equivalent of 96% of Australia's GDP, according to the Towers Watson Global Pension Assets Study. Australia's solid result was attributed to its strong currency ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... kept investors wary ahead of the start of the local earnings season. Wall Street ended lower after US gross domestic product (GDP) data missed expectations - despite recording its fastest growth rate since the first quarter of 2010 - and more disappointing ...

Nice one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... here) and the volatility in the financial markets intermittent speculations about its future create. The recently released UK GDP figures - down 0.2% in the last quarter of 2011 -- provide evidence that a recession is already underway in Europe while ...

Extending the extended extension

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... that it is being forced to keep rates for longer. To be fair, this is a valid assessment. Indeed the Fed just lowered its GDP growth projections. Its revised forecasts show that it expects the economy to grow by 2.23%-2.7% this year (down from November's ...

Australian economic fundamentals solid: Swan

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... Swan. The Treasurer also pointed to Australia's relatively low national debt, which he said was projected to peak at 8.9 % of GDP in 2011-12, while also predicting it would fall below 7.7% of GDP in 2014-15. "This is less than a tenth of the average ...

Forecasts shmorecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... from 4.9 percent in 2007." Hmmm...global growth will slow just a few notches in 2008, eh? Actual fourth quarter 2008 real GDP growth was clocked at 2.8%. The IMF's forecast was clouded by the boom of previous years so much so that even six months later ...

HSBC launches new retail equity product

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... represented a contender for the European index, Switzerland was determined the stronger economic performer during the crisis with GDP stable. In line with recent risk appetites, the offering gives capital protection at maturity with investment return ...

Wolf, wolf

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... deceleration Australia's economy has ever seen." Sharpest deceleration? What? Where? When? Heck, the 0.7% fall in Australia's real GDP in the December quarter of 2008 was only less than half of the 1.5% quarter-on-quarter contraction recorded in the ...