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Chief economist update: Not as good as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... quarter." This is good but some analysts are saying, this is as good as it gets, pointing to the deceleration in US GDP growth in the first quarter of this year to an annualised rate of 2.3% from 2.9% in the December 2017 quarter and 3.2% in the September ...

Chief economist update: Back to the shops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... that the March rebound has come in late for consumer spending to make a significant contribution to first quarter US GDP growth. Estimates show that consumer spending slowed to an annualised rate of 1.5% in the March quarter after the December 2017 quarter's ...

Chief economist update: Can't get enough of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... 2017; China by 7.0%; Japan by 2.9%; South Korea by 10.2%; Germany by 3.0%; India by 9.2%. Switzerland's per capita GDP growth even fell by 2.4% between 2016 and 2017. The US is a victim of its economy's relatively stronger expansion - one that would ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
... Minister Theresa May and Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney could at least focus on the domestic economy. While UK GDP growth slowed to annual rate of 1.4% in the year to the December 2017 quarter (the weakest since the June 2012 quarter) from ...

Chief economist update: No target sign on India's back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... Second, global demand has been improving, which should encourage exports and boost fresh investment. On the whole, GDP growth is projected to strengthen from 6.6 per cent in 2017-18 to 7.4 per cent in 2018-19 - in the range of 7.3-7.4 per cent in H1 ...

Chief economist update: Dot tales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... the Fed's revised economic projections: Fed Board members and Fed Reserve Bank presidents' median projection for real GDP growth was revised higher to 2.7% this year (from 2.5% predicted in December 2017) and 2.4% next year (from 2.1%) and unchanged ...

Chief economist update: Plotting the dots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
... White House? We'll soon find out. For it's also at this month's meeting that the Fed releases its FOMC projections for GDP growth, inflation and the unemployment rate and of course... the dot plots. The "dot plots" plot individual Fed district president's ...

Chief economist update: Australia cruising at low altitude

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... explaining the implications of the GDP data on investments. Implications: Investors follow the size of the GDP and GDP growth because it indicates if the economy is expanding or contracting thereby helping them gauge future economic and therefore business ...

Chief economist update: Next move in rates will likely be up, but it's not certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2018
... interest rates in Australia will be up, not down." But the economy was also moving in the right direction in 2017 - GDP growth strengthened from 1.8% in the year to the March quarter to 2.9% in the September quarter (we'll get the December quarter update ...

Chief economist update: The other president for life in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... country into recession in 2015 and 2016 but the economy has improved since then. Preliminary estimates show Russia's GDP growth expanded by 1.5% in 2017 after a 0.2% contraction in the previous year. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) predicts growth ...