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The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... the expected 1.6 per cent shrinkage in the US economy but better than forecasts for a 2.6 per cent decrease in Japanese real GDP and the 2.8 per cent contraction predicted for the United Kingdom. However, given its fourth quarter economic scorecard ...

Focus on the good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... received pink slips in January. Certainly, this will be again subject to spin. Much the same way as the US fourth quarter real GDP numbers were spun. Australia's own sage, Don Stammer, rightly pointed out that much of the media latched onto the 3.8 per ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) downward revision to global growth and the first estimate of US fourth quarter real GDP growth in the final week of last month provided a comprehensive picture of the glum outlook for the remaining 11 moons of ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... countries, the IMF foresees that the economy of the United Kingdom would suffer the worst contraction. It expects UK real GDP growth of minus 2.8 per cent in 2009 - revised from negative 1.3 per cent predicted only a month prior -- before rising to a ...

All together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... implement might be too late. Is this a case of 'Nero fiddled while Rome burns?' Japan is reporting its third quarter real GDP growth figures today - more likely than not, this will officially add the country to the list of economies that have contracted. ...

Rainy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... 5.75 per cent the year after. Some economists believe that even these downgraded assumptions are optimistic and expect real GDP to grow by only 1 per cent this financial year and the jobless rate to reach 9 per cent by 2010. This is well and good - if ...

It's the war, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
... in the fed funds rate. But Wall Street climbed again last night following the release of the 'better'-than-expected US real GDP growth. How anyone could put 'better' and economic contraction in one sentence would have the crew of the UFO's flying above ...

Seesaw Margery Daw

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... global) growth remains. For those still not convinced that the US is already in recession, tonight's advance estimate of US real GDP could be an eye opener. The US economy is expected to have contracted by 0.5 per cent in the third quarter. Partial US ...

This too shall pass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... generally applied to determining a recession. The operative word here is 'rule of thumb.' Two consecutive quarters of minus real GDP growth has been commonly accepted as the technical definition of a recession. But in the US, the Business Cycle Dating ...

The luckier country

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... high of more than US$145 a barrel only three months ago, indicating the sharp contraction in activity. News that China's real GDP growth slowed to 9 per cent in the third quarter from 10.1 per cent in the previous three-month period is also not encouraging. ...