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Gesundheit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
... doubt about the Indian economy's growth trajectory, the same growth risks putting upward pressure on inflation. India's GDP growth accelerated to 6.3% in the year to the third quarter from 5.7% in the previous period. While the RBI revised down its growth ...

Scared of inflation? Try deflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... past depreciation. These external forces slowly dissipate over the forecast..." Still, because of relatively stronger GDP growth - revised up to 1.7% in 2018 (from 1.5% in the November 2017 Quarterly Inflation Report) and 1.8% in 2019 (from 1.7%) - "domestic ...

Chief economist update: Euro's uptrend is a downtrend risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... which accelerated more than expected in the second half of 2017." That was "the second half of 2017", the full-year GDP growth result is much, much better. Sure, the annual rate of growth in the economy slowed to 2.7% in the December 2017 quarter from ...

Chief economist update: Build, build, and build some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
... whether or not tokhang impacted - for better or worse - the Philippine economy significantly. Latest data show that GDP growth slowed to 6.7% in 2017 from 6.9% in the previous year. This remained inside the government's target band of 6.5% to 7.5% target ...

Chief economist update: The angel in the details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... accounts for around 70% of the economy -- was strong, very strong. It contributed 2.58 percentage points to fourth quarter GDP growth, up from 1.49 pps in the previous quarter. OK, that's still back in December but the acceleration in personal income ...

Chief economist update: No stealth tapering, no exit strategy...yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... predicting world output to quicken to 3.9% this year and the next from 3.7% in 2017. The same one that's upgraded Japanese GDP growth by a whopping 0.5 percentage points to 1.2% this year and by 0.1% to 0.9% in 2019 (the slowdown is due to "a cyclical ...

Chief economist update: The good news and the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
... growth rate quickened to 6.9% from 6.7% in 2016. This is the fastest growth rate in two years, the first acceleration in GDP growth in the economy in seven years and is above the government's 2017 growth target of 6.5%. How good is that good news, ey? ...

Chief economist update: Consumers don't spend on confidence alone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... household consumption accounts for around two-thirds of Australia's economy, here's to looking forward to stronger GDP growth in the coming quarters. Real GDP slowed to a quarterly rate of 0.6% in the three-month period ending September 2017 from 0.9% ...

Chief economist update: One hike this year, one hike next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... 3.0% in 2017 to 2.4% by the end of this year before slowing to 2.2% in 2019 and 2.1% in 2020. The report also shows GDP growth projections of 1.5% in 2017 and 1.7% this year and through to 2020. As for their implication for BOE monetary policy, a footnote ...

The darling buds of inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... accelerated to a year-on-year rate of 6.3% from 6.2% in November, indicating a solid contribution to fourth quarter US GDP growth. To put this in perspective, the three-month moving average in core retail spending sped up to 5.7% (year-on-year) in December ...