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Not bullish enough, maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... Australian National Accounts paint a rosier picture than what financial markets anticipate. Consensus expects Australian real GDP to post a 0.7 per cent growth in the second quarter - almost double the 0.38 per cent advance in the first three months ...

Lucky, lucky, lucky

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... in recent months and you would be wondering what recession have all these experts been talking about? Sure, Australian real GDP dipped by 0.6 per cent in the last quarter of 2008 but...but...but that's about it really. Now economic gurus are busily working ...

Recession over! Sigh!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
... by solid evidence this time. Just recently, a number of big economies of the world stepped out of recession. Japanese real GDP grew by 0.9 per cent in the second quarter following four consecutive quarters of decline. This followed growth of 0.3 per ...

It's coming true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... shaping up to what equities want it to be. Reports out of Europe suggest that the end of recession there is also nigh. Real GDP in the Eurozone dipped by just 0.1 per cent in the second quarter - a significant improvement from the 2.5 per cent contraction ...

ADB pours $240m to worst hit nations

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... revenue. In Armenia, real gross domestic product (GDP) is forecast to contract by 9.5 per cent in 2009. Tajikistan's real GDP growth for 2009 is expected to be zero, down from 8 per cent in 2008. In Georgia, a loss of investor confidence and a slump ...

Higher...higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... rise, more than the first quarter's 1.0 per cent increase and would provide a positive contribution to second quarter real GDP growth. So where do we go from here? We go upwards and onwards.

Christmas in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... already seen China's GDP jump to 7.9 per cent in the second quarter from 6.1 per cent in the first. We know that Britain's real GDP improved markedly to a contraction of only 0.8 per cent in the second quarter from -2.4 per cent in the first. And more ...

RBNZ could go zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... bank first reduced interest rates in July 2008 - and only by a token 25 bps - from 8.25 per cent to 8 per cent and after real GDP had already fallen for two consecutive quarters. To be fair, the RBNZ was overly worried about rising inflation back then. ...

The times they are a'changin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... plus for it indicates that net exports would provide a positive contribution to - at the very least - second quarter real GDP growth. The improvement in the US trade balance and the jump in exports could also be reflective of rebounding activity elsewhere ...

Lost decade redux

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... hard by the financial fall-out, but statistics show that it is the Japanese economy that has suffered the most. Japanese real GDP collapsed by 8.4 per cent in the year to the March quarter. Almost double the 4.9 per cent contraction in UK GDP during ...