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No pleasing Mr. Market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... Growth would not be unsustainable. There were a lot more other reasons bears found when they dissected the US National Accounts. But we have to start somewhere right? Coming out of near death, the US economy must learn to walk again before it could run. ...

Back on the road again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
... morning and the fun will spill over Europe when it wakes up later today. Let's celebrate the fact that the US National Accounts showed growth in every major component that makes up its GDP in the third quarter. Personal consumption (up 3.4 per cent). ...

May sell or May stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... could prove rewarding for investors who decide to stay. Not least of which is the now well-sliced and diced US National Accounts that showed the return of the American consumer in the March quarter. And before this, strengthening economic indicators ...

The good in the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... consecutive quarters in 35 years (1974-1975). But the good in the bad news prevailed. The details of the US National Accounts show that consumer spending - which accounts for approximately 70 per cent of the economy - rose at an annual rate of 2.2 per ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... quarter-on-quarter fall since the first quarter of 1982 when the economy plunged by 6.4 per cent. The details of the US National Accounts showed that nearly all sectors of the economy have contracted. The one piece of positive news, I'm sure you've all ...

Main Street is burning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... intents it already is. Ordinary Americans do not have to wait until January 2009 when the fourth quarter US National Accounts are released or when the NBER finally stamps its seal many more months later that the country is already in recession. If it ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2006
... following the upward revision in US real GDP growth for the March quarter. More importantly, the revised US National Accounts figures showed that despite stronger growth (up at an annualised rate of 5.3 per cent from the initial estimate of 4.8 per cent) ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2006
Last night's revision to first quarter US National Accounts provided some good news to financial markets. US real GDP growth in the first quarter was upwardly revised to 5.3 per cent - the fastest pace since the third quarter of 2003 -- from the initial ...
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