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Spoiling for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... still hasn't sang... Elvis is still in the building. Just look at the US data releases last night. US second quarter real GDP growth was upwardly revised to an annualised rate of 1.7 per cent (from 1.6 per cent). Good, but not good enough. This remains ...

The good smoke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... to the Japan Research Institute, this frontloading would add 1.4 percentage points to the third quarter's annualised real GDP growth. Economist expects real GDP to grow at an annual rate of 1.7 per cent in the September quarter from 1.5 per cent in the ...

Bad hair day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... their paces are decelerating. Still in the Eurozone, reports show that Ireland is on its way to a double-dip. Ireland's real GDP shrank by 1.2 per cent in the second quarter, lower than predictions for a 0.5 per cent gain and reversing the first quarter's ...

Fortune cookie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... the next. Latest figures show that this may yet again be on the conservative side. As at the second quarter, Chinese real GDP expanded by 11.1 per cent. More recently, August data show that industrial production, retail sales, exports and investment ...

Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... that the Eurozone economy grew stronger than originally measured. Eurostat revised its initial estimate of euro area real GDP growth from 1.7 per cent in the year to the second quarter to a faster expansion of 1.9 per cent. Not only that, it also upgraded ...

Numero Dos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
... practically handed China the silver medal on a silver platter after releasing its National Accounts showing that the country's real GDP increased at an annualised rate of 0.4 per cent in the second quarter. In case you missed it, 0.4 per cent is an annualised ...

Good newer news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
... growth than it was in the second quarter. Don't know if you still remember but imports subtracted 2.1 per cent from US real GDP in quarter two. The ISM report also showed that new orders, export orders and employment extending their gains in July. In ...

Weak old news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
... why there was that big contribution from inventories to GDP growth in the second quarter. Speaking of second quarter real GDP growth, haven't we already seen these numbers in one form or another when the US National Accounts report was released last ...

Running of the bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... Yeah! Never mind that just over the weekend investors fret about the strength of the US recovery when second quarter real GDP showed that growth slowed to an annualised rate of 2.4 per cent from 3.7 per cent in the first three months of 2010. Never mind ...

Which way USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... 2010's biggest question as we bade July bye bye. Just look at Wall Street's reaction over the weekend when America's real GDP results for the second quarter was released. What reaction? There was none! Wall Street closed flat as a pancake over the weekend. ...