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The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
Only 2 economists out of the 57 in Bloomberg's survey and just 2 - perhaps the same 2 - out of 72 economist polled by Reuters got it wrong. Think it's safe to say that these two economists (or four, in case they aren't the same two) expected the European ...

market wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... showed an unexpected trade deficit of $US22.98 billion ($A25.37 billion), vastly different to a $US11.9 billion surplus economists had forecast. The disappointing data has led to a fall in commodity prices and a sell-off of mining stocks, Bell Direct ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... at $34.14 and Commonwealth Bank was 17 cents weaker at $75.35. Retail trade data will be released at 1130 AEDT, and economists expect a rise of 0.4 per cent in spending during January.

Never good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
Yeah, it's good but... This is the overriding verdict of the country's oft-quoted economists to the latest Australian national accounts report that showed our economy grew by a larger-than-expected 0.8% (expectations 0.7%) in the December quarter and ...

Traffic light trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... whatever you're doing and sell. But Kim Eng Securities strategist Andrew Sullivan and Bank of America-Merrill Lynch economists Ting Lu and Xiaojia Zhi think that the numbers were likely distorted by the Lunar New Year. The Wall Street Journal Marketwatch ...

(Back) wages

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 FEB 2014
... announcements, company closures, the unemployment rate on an uptrend how could we miss it? It's the classic classical economists' credo known as 'Say's Law' (popularised by French economist Jean Say in the 19th century) that says that, "in a free market ...

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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... signs of strength in the economy, with preliminary data on Wednesday and Thursday pointing to reasonably good numbers. Economists expect the economy added 175,000 jobs in January, up from 74,000 in December, and the unemployment rate to hold unchanged ...

China unlikely to achieve 10% growth again

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
... but the thrill is gone," Principal Global Investors Chief Economist Bob Baur stated at the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Melbourne. "We don't think China is ever going to see 10% growth again. Maybe 6% of 7%, but not 10% again," Baur said. ...

Europe a 'running sore' on global economy: Probyn

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2014
... according to State Street Global Advisors' chief economist Christopher Probyn. Speaking at today's Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Sydney, Probyn said Europe's economy was "a running sore, a sore that doesn't heal. You put something on it ...

Global economy on a knife edge

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014