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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... economy rebounded in the first three months of the year, in line with market expectations. British gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.5 per cent in the first quarter of 2011, after a slumping by 0.5 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2010, official ...

Thanks S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... growing economy puts more revenues in government coffers. The US budget was able to turn a deficit running at 4.6 per cent of GDP in 1992 to a surplus - yes, a surplus - of 2.4 per cent of GDP back in 2000 as the economy expanded strongly following the ...

Much ado over a known known

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... and interest rates" table in the "The Economist" shows that the US budget deficit is forecast to come in at 9.9 per cent of GDP this year and Britain at 9.0 per cent. Certainly, America's deficit passed 6, 7, 8 per cent before getting to the 9. This ...

China surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... upcoming Chinese eco stats will reveal about the future. China will release its growth and inflation numbers later today. GDP is expected to slow 9.7 per cent in the year to the March quarter after expanding by 10.3 per cent in the last three months ...

Asia to grow amid inflation threat: ADB

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... Development Bank (ADB). ADB's annual economic publication, Asian Development Outlook 2011 (ADO 2011), has forecasted regional GDP growth of 7.8 per cent in 2011 and 7.7 per cent the following year, slightly below last years rate of 9 per cent but still ...

Economic woes keep US growth in check

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
Fund managers hoping for a US GDP growth rate of 3 per cent or better are likely to be disappointed if Harvard academic Martin Feldstein is correct. Dr Feldstein recently told the Australian Centre for Financial Studies that the US was unlikely to achieve ...

Hunter Hall defiant on Japan

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2011
... EBITDA. A typical wholesaler in Australia would be at 7 or 8 times," he said. The portfolio manager also noted that Japan's GDP growth was now expected to be around 1 per cent for the year to March 2012, a 0.7 per cent drop on estimates made prior to ...

Bulls take first quarter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... month of the last quarter of 2011, Portugal will report that it failed to reach its budget deficit target of 7 per cent of GDP in 2010 and instead record a deficit of 8.6 per cent of GDP. Still on European debt, Ireland will conduct a stress test of ...

Commodities rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... Asia and Europe have been expanding as well. While already ancient, last Friday's upward revision to US fourth quarter 2010 GDP confirmed the strengthening growth momentum in America heading into the New Year. Recall the disappointment when the second ...

No-bull bull market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... (because he can't get his fiscal austerity passage through) and Ireland reporting a 1.6 per cent slump in fourth quarter real GDP (because it agreed to austerity measures in return for EU/IMF aid), China and other emerging markets remain in tightening ...