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Not that time yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014
... more oomph. Given last night's disappointing inflation numbers, Super Mario might just have to make good on his promise. Eurostat reported that the region's annual headline inflation rate slowed to 0.4% in July from 0.5% in June and May. This is the ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... caution and to take pre-caution. The experience of Greece is still fresh in my mind from when it was branded a "liar" by Eurostat back in April 2010. On 23 April of that year, I typed: "Eurostat revealed last night that it discovered that Greece's 2009 ...

Crime pays: Why new European GDP rules are causing a stir

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... from a deep recession, the new measures are unintentionally providing a welcome boost to economic output. According to Eurostat, the inclusion of all illegal activities would yield a growth rate of 2.4% for the European economies. Adding illegal activity ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... ease monetary policy when the Governing Council meets two days from now on the June 5th. Inflation's crying for action. Eurostat's preliminary on the region's consumer prices show the annual inflation rate easing to 0.5% In May from 0.7% in the previous ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... a record 12.2 per cent in September, with about 19.5 million people classed as jobless by European Union data agency Eurostat. In economic news on Friday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will release the index of commodity prices for month just ended ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... Jones Newswires. Separately, eurozone inflation rose to 1.6 per cent in June from 1.4 per cent in May, EU data agency Eurostat said Tuesday, with the figure for powerhouse Germany jumping from 1.6 to 1.9 per cent. HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly rose ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... level of 12.2 per cent in April, with 19.2 million people on the dole as recession continued to sap the economy. The Eurostat data agency said on Friday that in the 12 months to April, a total 1.6 million people lost their jobs in the 17-nation eurozone. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... although recession was likely to continue into the beginning of next year. Data from the European Union's statistics agency Eurostat showed retail sales fell by 1.2 per cent in October from September, the third straight monthly decline and the largest ...

Recycled scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... success," Passos Coelho said in a separate interview with Bloomberg television yesterday. If it's not Greece, perhaps it's Eurostat's report that the Eurozone economy contracted by 0.3% in the fourth quarter, down from a plus 0.1% in the third. The report ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... production fell 0.1 per cent from November but was 8.0 per cent stronger than in December 2009, the European Union's Eurostat agency said Monday. The December figures were slightly weaker than the market consensus estimate of flat output on the month ...