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BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... 2011/2012 Budget Papers trumpeted an underlying cash deficit of A$22.6 billion because Treasury thought that Australian real GDP would grow by 4% this fiscal year. It's not. My calculations show that the economy would still struggle to reach the 3% growth ...

Instant replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... topping expectations but economic indicators remain mixed, albeit positive on balance. Figures out last week showed US real GDP expanded at a lower-than-expected 2.2% annualised rate in the first quarter from 3.0% in the December quarter. However, consumer ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... proof? Look to the UK. It's gone into a DD (double-dip). Last night, the Office for National Statistics reported that real GDP fell by 0.2% in the March quarter that followed a 0.3% contraction in the fourth quarter of last year. What does a back-to-back ...

What price surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... negative sign in front of small number outweighs that of having a plus sign in front of an equally small number. Australian real GDP expanded by only 1.6% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of last year - half the Treasury's assumption of 3.25% (trend) ...

The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... in advanced. (In the US, an inverted yield curve had "always" been followed by a recession). Average annual Australian real GDP growth slowed to 2.6% in 2001 from 3.2% in the previous year. It eased from 4.7% in 2007 to 2.5% in 2008 and then to 1.4% ...

Boring same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012
... recent indicators suggesting that the US economy is gaining momentum, the OECD would be remiss if it hadn't done so. US real GDP growth confirms this - unrevised at an annualised rate of 3.0% in the fourth quarter with consumer spending also unchanged ...

A surplus in 2012/13, and then what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... less if you take the MYEFO's revised 3.25% assumption. This is more than pie in the sky if you ask me considering that real GDP grew by 0.8% in the September quarter and 0.4% in the fourth quarter. And in case you're thinking of blaming Wayne for this ...

Upside surprises to surprise on the upside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... scenario. Short of the predicted end of days on 21-12-2012, that scenario is everyone's worst nightmare - an 8% drop in real GDP; the unemployment rate to hit 13% (it peaked at 10.2% back in 2009); house prices to slide by 21%; and, a 50% dive in stock ...

Good bacteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2012
... Australia. It's coming just when our economic scorecard is not doing that flash. Yes, you've already seen this last week. Real GDP slowed to just 0.4% in the fourth quarter (half of the 0.8% growth in the previous quarter), taking the annual growth rate ...

No please explain needed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
... economic fundamentals have been doing nothing but strengthening. We got more of them last night. US fourth quarter 2011 real GDP growth was revised higher to an annualised rate of 3% -- the fastest pace in six quarters -- from the initial estimate of ...