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BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... talking heads found one hundred reasons and one for the market's rebound. From the upward revision in US first quarter real GDP to US Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke's testimony before the House Oversight Committee through to the IMF and the OECD raising ...

Good news in inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
... Eurozone also kept the ECB at bay this month. Interest rates remained unchanged at one per cent after its meeting. Although real GDP contracted by 2.5 per cent in the March quarter, Europeans are cheerier. Measures of consumer, economic and industry ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
... was 14 points higher at 3974 on a volume of 13,650 contracts. Burrell Stockbroking adviser Daniel Manley said the release of GDP figures, which confirmed that Australia avoided a technical recession, had only briefly affected the market. "The market ...

GS trounces GM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
... sorts of negative consequences for Australians. It is likely that there would be some knee-jerk selling if the March quarter GDP result is indeed negative. But this is all it would be - a knee-jerk reaction to where the economy had been three months ...

Undue credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... figures on public debt and S&P's current sovereign ratings). Gross Ext Debt GED per GED % Public Debt Country (GED) Capita of GDP % of GDP S&P US$ Billion US$000 % % Ratings 1. Ireland 2,311 550 811 31.5 AA+ 2. United Kingdom 9,388 154 336 47.2 AAA 3. ...

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) projection of a 1.3 per cent fall. In the fiscal year to June 1991, Australian real GDP declined by 1.6 per cent. The good times brought about complacency and profligacy in all of us - including the government. ...

Beware the Budgets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... previous deep recessions, the US economy suffered its biggest contraction in the first quarter of 1958. At the time, real GDP plummeted by 3.1 per cent. The unemployment rate increased by 2.5 per cent from an average of 4.3 per cent in 1957 to 6.8 per ...

Lies, damned lies and statistics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... billion in March from A$1.75 billion in the previous month. Yes...a surplus. And yes, this too would contribute to first quarter GDP growth numbers. In the end, statistics is based on samples and are therefore subject to sampling errors. It is possible ...

The good in the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... deeper into the recessionary hole in the first quarter of this year. The US Commerce Department's first estimate of US real GDP showed the economy contracted at annualised rate of 6.1 per cent in the period from January to March 2009 - worst than market ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... that the pace of contraction was easing. The Commerce Department's first estimate of first quarter gross domestic product (GDP) showed the world's largest economy contracted at a 6.1 percent annualised rate. While considerably worse than the 4.7 per ...