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On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... Because the biggest economy in the world is gathering momentum. Never mind the first estimate December quarter 0.1% dip in real GDP, that's old news. Besides, it would be revised a second and third time anyway. And if goes the same way as the Bureau ...

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... predictions of a double-dip in America and a hard landing in China that gained currency last year. To be sure, to be sure, US real GDP growth slowed to an annualised rate of 1.3% in the June quarter of 2012, but that's no recession my friends and it ...

It's just plain dumb

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... equity market - as measured by the All Ordinaries index - lags 'em problem economies. Australians are worried because our real GDP growth slowed to 3.1% in the year to the third quarter from 3.8% in the June quarter and, according to the Australian Business ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... for the following year was that Australia will go into recession this year (yes, in 2012). Instead, Australia's annual real GDP growth jumped to its fastest pace - 4.5% 2012 - in five years in the first quarter followed by another quarter of strong growth ...

Not long now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... But don't despair Virginia, we didn't miss much. Better than expected it may be but the 2.0% annualised growth in US real GDP in the third quarter confirmed what we already knew - that American activity is improving... but at a rate that would put a ...

Spanish austerity and Chinese take-away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... Ole! 'Twas lucky the Spanish news came when it did. It was able to drown the bad news out of America - US second quarter real GDP growth was revised lower to an annualised rate of 1.3% from the previous estimate of 1.7% and durable goods orders (a leading ...

Time to stop the rot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... a corresponding 40.6% dive in the country's current account surplus. The downward revision in Japan's second quarter real GDP growth to an annualised rate of 0.7% -- half the 1.4% rate in the original estimate - only hammers in the country's dour situation. ...

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
... into effect in May and previous efforts to weaken its currency. What does Brazil have to show for all these? Brazil's real GDP improved to an annual rate of 1.6% in the second quarter, four times the 0.4% annual rate in Q1 and a 0.6% annual rate of contraction ...

The QE question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... housing, industrial production and the index of leading economic indicators have shown improvement. And just last night, US real GDP growth was revised higher to an annualised rate of 1.7% in the June quarter from the initial estimate of 1.5%. Not much ...

Dull night on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
... indications show that the festering problems in the region are impacting activity in the two biggest countries - German real GDP growth eased to 0.3% in the June quarter from 0.5%, France showed no growth in both quarters - the latest reading are in ...