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S.O.S

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... particularly as it added to yesterday's disappointing ISM manufacturing index numbers and last week's poor US second quarter real GDP growth result. One thing I could say, it really feels like August 2010 all over again. And we all know what happened ...

It's a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... become the new focus - or shall I say, the fresh fear -- for investors now that the deal is done. The first estimate of US real GDP showed the economy grew at annualised pace of only 1.3% in the second quarter - lower than market expectations for 1.8% ...

The sound of QE3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... country's economic growth and predicted that there'd be more of his countrymen joining the jobless ranks. The Fed now thinks real GDP would grow between 2.7 per cent and 2.9 per cent this year - down from its April estimate of 3.1 per cent and 3.3 per ...

The seventh day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... trip round the world and look at the news reports that littered cyberspace over the past 24 hours: Japan first quarter real GDP growth was revised to show the economy contracting at an annualised rated of 3.5 per cent, less than the preliminary reading ...

U-G-L-Y

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... hammered the US Midwest and the South in May. That may do. The UK did when it reported a disappointing first quarter real GDP report. So did Japan and Australia. Sorry bro' no can do this too. It wouldn't wash because the commissioner of the Bureau of ...

All good but for the dollar A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
The global community was not in the least perturbed by the release of Australia's National Accounts that showed real GDP fell by 1.2 per cent in the March quarter. Not even the fact that the economic slump in the first three months of 2011 was bigger ...

GDP down no reason to frown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... Statistics' (ABS) report on the National Accounts at 1130 tomorrow. Consensus expectations centre around a 0.3 per cent dip in real GDP in the first three months of this year - down from plus 0.7 per cent in the December quarter - for a year-on-year ...

It's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... were big headlines about how the weaker-than-expected and unchanged 1.8 per cent annualised growth in US first quarter real GDP confirms that America is losing momentum. And the rationales were selectively handpicked - jump in unemployment claims, disappointing ...

Can't hear you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... none of that. US equities notched their second straight day of gains- Despite the second estimate to first quarter US real GDP growth of 1.8 per cent showed no revision, disappointing market expectations for an upgrade to 2.2 per cent. Despite reports ...

Just replace because with despite

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... FTSE-100 - well, we can use "because" or "despite," take your pick, when reporting on the 0.5 per cent increase in its real GDP in the March quarter. But I think "despite" would be better given that exports accounted for the bulk of the first quarter ...