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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... annual pace in the second quarter, leaving unrevised an estimate from a month earlier. The figure for gross domestic product (GDP) was better than expected by analysts, who had forecast a revision to an annualised 1.5 per cent pace of decline. The Labor ...

Recession over! Sigh!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
... by solid evidence this time. Just recently, a number of big economies of the world stepped out of recession. Japanese real GDP grew by 0.9 per cent in the second quarter following four consecutive quarters of decline. This followed growth of 0.3 per ...

It's coming true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... shaping up to what equities want it to be. Reports out of Europe suggest that the end of recession there is also nigh. Real GDP in the Eurozone dipped by just 0.1 per cent in the second quarter - a significant improvement from the 2.5 per cent contraction ...

ADB pours $240m to worst hit nations

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... decline in remittance income, private domestic spending, and government revenue. In Armenia, real gross domestic product (GDP) is forecast to contract by 9.5 per cent in 2009. Tajikistan's real GDP growth for 2009 is expected to be zero, down from 8 ...

Higher...higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... cent in June after rising by 1.0 per cent in the previous month, the volume of retail spending - the one which figures in GDP calculations - jumped by 2.0 percent in the June quarter. This is better than expectations for a 1.3 per cent rise, more than ...

Christmas in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... availability, offshore demand, etc.? And what about economic conditions? That's improving too. We've already seen China's GDP jump to 7.9 per cent in the second quarter from 6.1 per cent in the first. We know that Britain's real GDP improved markedly ...

RBNZ could go zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... bank first reduced interest rates in July 2008 - and only by a token 25 bps - from 8.25 per cent to 8 per cent and after real GDP had already fallen for two consecutive quarters. To be fair, the RBNZ was overly worried about rising inflation back then. ...

The times they are a'changin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... plus for it indicates that net exports would provide a positive contribution to - at the very least - second quarter real GDP growth. The improvement in the US trade balance and the jump in exports could also be reflective of rebounding activity elsewhere ...

Instreet targets Asian equities

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... tracking the Standard & Poor's Asia 50 Index. "This will allow investors to take advantage of projected higher earnings and GDP growth in the region when compared with Australia or other major global markets," he said. "Our long term view is investors ...

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... hard by the financial fall-out, but statistics show that it is the Japanese economy that has suffered the most. Japanese real GDP collapsed by 8.4 per cent in the year to the March quarter. Almost double the 4.9 per cent contraction in UK GDP during ...