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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
... Japanese real GDP growth accelerated to a quarterly rate of 0.5% in the three months to September from 0.2% in the June quarter and more than double market expectations for a 0.2% expansion. The September quarter translates into a 2.2% annualised rate ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2016
... market expectations for a 0.6% increase. The unemployment rate declined to 4.9% in the third quarter from 5.0% in the June quarter, also beating expectations for an increase to 5.1%. What is more, this comes on top of an increase in the participation ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
... GDP expanding at a quarterly rate of 0.3% in the three months to September following a similar 0.3% increase in the June quarter. Similarly, the year-on-year growth rate clocked in at 1.6% in the third quarter, the same rate as in the second quarter. ...

Raising rates on soybeans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... contributing 1.5 percentage points to GDP growth, this has slowed sharply from the 2.9 pps it contributed to growth in the June quarter. How would higher interest rates affect consumer spending? This would flow down into inventories - whether companies ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2016
Australia export and import prices When the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the June quarter National Accounts last September, one notable piece of information was the bureau's mention that "The Terms of trade increased by 2.3% in seasonally ...

CPI says RBA no go on Melbourne Cup Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2016
... 2016" report shows the annual headline CPI inflation rate accelerating to 1.3% in the third quarter from 1.0% in the June quarter and beating expectations for a 1.1% print. As for the core measures: The trimmed mean came in at 1.7% in September, the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
... quarterly growth rate. Year-on-year, South Korean real GDP expanded by 2.7% in the September quarter from 3.3% in the June quarter and beating market expectations for a 2.6% rise.

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... increase up to 1.8% in the September quarter - the fastest pace since the December quarter of 2014 - from 1.1% in the June quarter.

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
... reading of 12. Sentiment among large non-manufacturers eased to a reading of 18 in the third quarter from 19 in the June quarter. This index had been in constant decline since the 25 reading in the December quarter of 2015. At least, there's a bit of ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... still strong 4.3% in the final estimate (from 4.4% in the second estimate) and contributed 2.8 percentage points to June quarter growth. The upward revision was driven mainly by the recalculation of non-residential investment growth to a 1.0% increase ...