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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2016
... annual rate while the Fed's favoured inflation measure - the core PCE - remained unchanged and below target at 1.6%. Eurozone confidence Economic, consumer and business confidence in the Eurozone all weakened in June. Economic sentiment eased to a reading ...

Eurozone splintering is biggest risk in Brexit fallout

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
... "[France] must now have the same referendum." According to stress-testing and modelling by MSCI, "shattering" of the Eurozone would drag UK economic growth by 4.3% annually; Spain would slow by 4.2%, the Netherlands by 3.7% and Italy by 4.3%. Further ...

Britons vote 'Adieu EU'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016
... months to June has seen the worst quarter for manufacturing in terms of both production and employment growth since 2009." Eurozone flash PMI Markit's flash Eurozone PMI presented mixed indications for the single currency area. Manufacturing activity ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
... confidence The Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (DG ECFIN) flash consumer confidence indicator for the eurozone slipped to a reading of -7.3 in June versus -7.0 in the previous month. Consumer confidence also weakened in the European ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... 5.2% drop recorded in February. Year-on-year, industrial production declined by 3.3% after falling by 3.5% in March. Eurozone industrial production Industrial output in the euro area jumped by 2.0% in the year to April following a small 0.2% gain in ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
... October of the same year. The LMCI was at 2.6 in November and 1.8 in December 2015 when the Fed lifted off last December. Eurozone retail PMI Some good news out of the euro area. Markit Economics' Eurozone retail PMI - which tracks monthly changes in ...

Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2016
... quarter, with real GDP expanding by 3.1% over the year. This compares with 2.0% growth for the US and the UK, 1.5% in the Eurozone and a 0.1% contraction in Japan. This reminded me again of Lloyd Blankfein's -- chairman and chief executive of Goldman ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2016
... growth rate since September 2012. This puts Australia's year-on-year economic growth rate ahead of the US (2.0%), the Eurozone (1.5%), the United Kingdom (2.0%) and Japan (-0.05%). US ISM manufacturing index Contrary to indications of weakening manufacturing ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2016
... the proportion of respondents expecting less jobs in the coming months increased to 18.1% in May from 16.7% in April. Eurozone CPI inflation Flash estimates show that headline consumer price inflation in the Eurozone dipped by 0.1% in the year to May ...