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Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... consecutive quarters from 9.8% (year-on-year) in the December quarter of 2010 to 8.1% in the first quarter of this year. GDP figures due out today are expected to continue this trend with consensus expecting the number to come in at 7.6%. The same goes ...

Nice one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... the volatility in the financial markets intermittent speculations about its future create. The recently released UK GDP figures - down 0.2% in the last quarter of 2011 -- provide evidence that a recession is already underway in Europe while growth in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... (Reserve Bank of Australia) is going to be less inclined to raise interest rates this year." Ms Lien said the release of GDP figures on Wednesday could put more downward pressure on the Australian dollar. "I wouldn't rule out a slightly better number ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... Australia's exports go to Japan, the Australian dollar has barely reacted to the news. "We knew that first quarter GDP figures were going to be weak but they are a lot weaker than what consensus was expecting and it does suggest that the size of the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... move up over 99 US cents once the European session gets underway and would stay at this level until fourth quarter US GDP figures were released overnight (AEDT).

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... there's anything surprising there, and it's certainly not a game changer and not a catalyst in itself," she said of the GDP figures. "At the moment we are taking that fairly well on the chin and really all eyes are still on Europe and obviously on China ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... $72.00. "We are very leveraged towards China, and Chinese growth is still moving along quite nicely," he said. "In our GDP figures, that exposure to China gives us a quite significant advantage over the world. "The lift we have got today is investors ...

Market Wrap - Midmorning

MARKET WRAP - MIDDAY  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... said. "I think a lot of people are taking money off the table." Mr Potter said the expectations for the quarterly GDP figures in the US had already been revised downwards and if the data came in lower than the revision, it wasn't going to be pretty. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... with an upwardly revised 1.1 per cent in the December quarter. Over the year to March, GDP rose 2.7 per cent. "(The GDP figures) are not brilliant but it's certainly positive so that could have had a short term impact on what we're seeing," Mr Chatterton ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
... (GDP) rose by a seasonally adjusted 0.6 per cent in the June quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said. The GDP figures were stronger than expected, and the market jumped 15 points, Mr Potter said. Overnight, New York's main contract, light sweet ...