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G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... Treasury Secretary Timmy Geithner tried... and failed. He suggested limiting current account imbalances to four per cent of GDP. This was shot down from the get go. Easy for a deficit country like America to propose but no one at the table really expected ...

Bottoms up

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton, which used more than a century worth of data from 83 countries, the correlation between GDP growth and stock returns is statistically non-existent. The example of China and the UK over the past 25 years illuminates ...

UK fast tracks pension reforms

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... a year through the reforms to resolve the country's fiscal imbalances. The UK's 2009/10 deficit stood at 11.4 per cent of GDP, with the national debt over 70 per cent of GDP. Meanwhile, across the English channel, rioting and widespread strikes have ...

Lower tax rate opens local property to foreign investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... "We expect a disproportionate amount of capital will be invested here relative to the size of this market and Australia's GDP."

QE2 or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... and they spent big. Data from usgovernmentspending.com shows the US annual budget deficit jumped from below five percent of GDP in the 1930s to close to 30 per cent of GDP in the 1940s. And now financial markets are scared that the deficit is running ...

Spoiling for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... still hasn't sang... Elvis is still in the building. Just look at the US data releases last night. US second quarter real GDP growth was upwardly revised to an annualised rate of 1.7 per cent (from 1.6 per cent). Good, but not good enough. This remains ...

The good smoke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... to the Japan Research Institute, this frontloading would add 1.4 percentage points to the third quarter's annualised real GDP growth. Economist expects real GDP to grow at an annual rate of 1.7 per cent in the September quarter from 1.5 per cent in the ...

Bad hair day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... their paces are decelerating. Still in the Eurozone, reports show that Ireland is on its way to a double-dip. Ireland's real GDP shrank by 1.2 per cent in the second quarter, lower than predictions for a 0.5 per cent gain and reversing the first quarter's ...

Indian pension funds poised for growth

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... allocation to equities, compared to a maximum of 5 per cent previously. "India has a large savings pool (as a percentage of GDP) however households have put most of these into bank deposits rather than equities," said Ragu Sivanesarajah, a senior portfolio ...

Fortune cookie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... the next. Latest figures show that this may yet again be on the conservative side. As at the second quarter, Chinese real GDP expanded by 11.1 per cent. More recently, August data show that industrial production, retail sales, exports and investment ...