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Another 'should have gone shopping' moment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2011
... in several US statistics over the weekend. And what I saw were good - and getting better. Gone are the dark clouds. US real GDP expanded at an annual rate of 2.5% in the third quarter -- not much to write home about considering that it's in line with ...

Party in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... you buy it? Caterpillar. This, along with other good US eco stats reported earlier, makes it hardly surprising that US real GDP growth is being revised up. It's now expected to expand at a 2.5% annual rate in the third quarter. Two point five percent ...

Some hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
... eurozone." At least there was some hopeful news out of the US last night. The US Commerce Department revised up second quarter real GDP to an annualised growth rate of 1.3% -- a bit better than market expectations for a 1.2% rise and 30% more than second ...

IMF says prepare to buy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... are growing." It now predicts global growth to "moderate to about 4 percent through 2012, from over 5 percent in 2010. Real GDP in the advanced economies is projected to expand at an anemic pace of about 1.5 percent in 2011 and 2 percent..." and "would ...

Damned to default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... markets have been smoking but as far I'm concerned Greek's been cactus ever since it's debt-to-GDP ratio hit 140% and real GDP slumped by a massive 7.3% in the year to the second quarter of 2011. Oh, and official growth forecasts have been revised lower ...

Coin toss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... thing I don't have to complete the NBER recession indicator set is monthly GDP. But the quarter-on-quarter result showed real GDP growth had improved to 0.3% in the June quarter (though we may get a lower reading when the second estimate is released ...

Willing America into a dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... 2-3% rather than the second quarter's reading of 1.3% annualised. (As an aside, the second estimate of June quarter US real GDP will be released this Friday. Expectations are that it'll be lowered to 1.1%.) However, the warning signs of an impending ...

A penny saved could spark a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... tower of strength, that's keeping some semblance of hope in the Eurozone - barely grew in the second quarter. German real GDP inched up by a mere 0.1% in the second quarter. This is lower than market expectations for a 0.5% expansion and sharply down ...

In a better place

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... the end of 2011. Yet, at this month's board meeting the Reserve Bank of Australia stressed that, "Overall, growth in real GDP through 2011 is now likely to be at about trend. Over the medium term, overall growth is still likely to be at trend or higher ...

Lost GPS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... cover the manufacturing and goods-producing sectors of the economy. The committee also looks at estimates of monthly real GDP prepared by Macroeconomic Advisers." The latest readings from these activity and income statistics are not signalling that a ...