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World peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... economies have committed to fiscal plans that will at least halve deficits by 2013 and stabilize or reduce government debt-to-GDP ratios by 2016." And "Those with serious fiscal challenges need to accelerate the pace of consolidation. Fiscal consolidation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... a broad measure of the country's output, to 2.7 per cent. The third and final estimate was the second downward revision of GDP growth for the January-March period, which had been initially calculated at 3.2 per cent before being adjusted down to 3.0 ...

To spend or not to spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
... doubt slow economic growth in some countries and cause a return to recession in some. The outcome would be that the deficit to GDP ratio remains at it current levels - the denominator (GDP) shrinks at the same pace as the numerator (deficit). A recession ...

RARE Infra wins $1.4bn in mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... flexibility to transform the portfolio from a very defensive position, with significant utility exposure, in early 2009 to a more GDP leveraged position, with greater exposure to toll roads and rail," he said.

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... services. America is consuming less "made outside the USA" products. Trade detracted around 0.7 percentage points from US real GDP growth in the first quarter. The way it's going - particularly given the US dollar appreciation - net exports would also ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... the market saw a turnaround at about 1130 AEST, when the Australian Bureau of Statistics released gross domestic product (GDP) figures for the March quarter. GDP rose by a seasonally adjusted 0.5 per cent in the March quarter, compared with an upwardly ...

On caution's side

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... March quarter. In addition, financial markets expect Australia's economic report card - released tomorrow - to show that real GDP expanded at 0.7 per cent in the first quarter of this year, taking the annual growth rate to 2.6 per cent. Slightly less ...

Knee-jerk reaction to late action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... shrinking national output. Not with more cuts in spending and public and private sector work stoppages and protests reducing GDP further. If ever there was a slippery slope, this is the one for Greece. S&P also reduced Portugal's credit rating by two ...

Liar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2010
... - called it a liar. Eurostat revealed last night how it discovered that Greece's 2009 budget deficit was 13.6 per cent of GDP - higher than the government's own forecast of 12.9 per cent just two weeks ago and Eurostat's estimates of 12.7 per cent last ...

Grass is greener in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
... forecasts proved correct, China would become the world's second biggest in 2010. Consensus Economics predicts that Japan's GDP will grow by 1.9 per cent this year, increasing its economic size to around US$5.2 trillion by the end of 2010. At the same ...