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Make love not leverage

... This index is one of the reliable leading indicators of the US economy. It fell below 50 in December 2007 - later timed by NBER as the start of the US recession. The National Association of Realtors reported that US pending home sales rose by 2.1 per ...

Que sera, sera

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... ignored this statement, choosing instead to get their dose of daily fright by focusing on the US Bureau of Economic Research's (NBER) announcement officially marking the start of the US recession. In his speech, Bernanke acknowledged that the scope for ...

Mr. Scrooge's Ghosts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... recession since December 2007. Now what? The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced that America's economy entered recession one year ago, despite not having reported two consecutive quarters of ...

Main Street is burning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... the world - Japan and the Eurozone -- are now officially in recession. And while the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee still has to officially pronounce the US economy in recession, by all intents it already ...

Seesaw Margery Daw

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
... Standard Intelligence Unit's (FSIU) investigation shows that the stock market reaches bottom halfway into a recession (the NBER definition). But we won't know when the recession started until the NBER dates this current one. Wall Street sorely needs ...

This too shall pass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... definition of a recession. But in the US, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - the official arbiter of the US business cycle - 'does not define a recession in terms of two consecutive quarters of decline ...
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