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Where's the Brexit-induced recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
... 0.2% gain and much lower than expectations for a mere 0.1% decline. Export prices dropped by 2.4% in the year to August. Eurozone industrial production Industrial output in the single currency area fell by a bigger than expected 1.1% in the month of ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
... (although 38% of respondents - a record high - cited political uncertainty as a reason for holding off on expansion). Eurozone economic sentiment The ZEW indicator of economic sentiment for the Eurozone rose to a reading of plus 5.4 in September, an ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
... bottomed at 2.0% in the June quarter of 2015. The latest growth number puts Australia ahead of the United States (1.2%) the Eurozone (1.6%), the United Kingdom (2.2%) and Japan (0.6%). The details of the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
... from 52.9 in the previous month. Markit's survey also found slowing growth in new orders and employment and i Markit Eurozone manufacturing PMI The Eurozone's manufacturing sector is also slowing, with Markit's final manufacturing PMI estimate declining ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2016
... percent to 18.8 percent, while the proportion expecting a decline decreased marginally from 11.0 percent to 10.7 percent". Eurozone sentiment In contrast with the US, deteriorating sentiment measures in the Eurozone strengthen the case for more stimulus ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
... homes declined by 1.4% to US$244,100 in the month of July but remains 5.3% higher compared with the same month in 2015. Eurozone consumer confidence Preliminary estimates by the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) show that ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2016
... for U.S. manufactured goods were unchanged in August, thereby ending a three-month sequence of increase". Markit flash Eurozone PMI Acceleration in manufacturing and services output growth sent the flash Eurozone PMI composite output index up to 53.3 ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... the month of July after gaining by 0.5% in the previous month and missing market expectations for a 0.6% increase. ZEW Eurozone economic sentiment Economic sentiment in the Eurozone rebounded to a reading of plus 4.6 in August following the Brexit-induced ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... retail sales were flat in July; Chinese retail sales, industrial production, fixed asset investment and inflation slowed; Eurozone GDP growth halved to 0.3% in the June quarter from 0.6% in the first; UK house prices fell by 1% in the month of July ...