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ECB disengages from currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... market's faith in the single currency area's domestic growth outlook. There are very few reasons not to be. Eurozone GDP growth has accelerated to 2.1% in the year to the second quarter from 1.9% in the first quarter. This is the fastest growth rate ...

No follow through

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
... only at the cost of higher unemployment and, in all likelihood, even weaker income growth". Not to mention on overall GDP growth - which in the latest 'Quarterly Inflation Report' (QIR) the BOE revised lower to 1.7% (from 1.9% in the May QIR) this year ...

Powered by low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
... to growth (up from 1.32 contribution in the previous quarter). The contribution from consumers alone would have sent GDP growth accelerating in the second quarter from the first but fixed investment and government spending also contributed - 0.36 and ...

Dovish Fed, hawkish BOC

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2017
... by 2.3% in the year to the first quarter of 2017, accelerating from 2% in the previous quarter. The BOC now projects GDP growth of 2.8% in 2017, 2% next year and 1.6% in 2019. More importantly, "the output gap is now projected to close around the end ...

Good goings-on in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
... Monetary Fund (IMF) have lifted their China economic growth projections in their June 2017 reports. The OECD raised its GDP growth forecast to 6.6% this year (from 6.4% predicted in November 2016) and 6.4% in 2018 (from 6.1%). The IMF's June report saw ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... stance. And for good reasons. It remains optimistic over the domestic growth outlook and still views the March quarter GDP growth slowdown as temporary: "Consumption growth remains subdued, reflecting slow growth in real wages and high levels of household ...

Expansions maintained despite dashed expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
... average expansion in the second quarter has been the strongest for over six years and is historically consistent with GDP growth accelerating from 0.6% in the first quarter to 0.7%." But unlike the US, the latest survey shows easing inflation in the ...

Eurozone gaining momentum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... that the European Central Bank (ECB) would follow suit...and soon. After all the Eurozone economy's gaining momentum. GDP growth accelerated to 1.9% in the year to the March quarter from 1.8% in the December 2016 quarter. Using the same measure, this ...

Cloudy skies in the land of the rising sun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... National Accounts that exports accounted for the biggest subtraction (0.4 percentage points) to Australia's first quarter GDP growth of 0.3%. While the weakness of the A$ -- A$/US$ down by 2.5% from its 2017 high; A$ TWI down 4.0% from 2017 high -- should ...

Better, but not good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... inequalities... Compared to the 20-year pre-crisis average against which expectations have been set, OECD per capita GDP growth remains over 1/2 percentage point weaker and global growth overall, projected to rise to just above 31/2 per cent by 2018 ...