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Economic growth slows to 1.7pct but not as bad as feared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
Australia's economic scorecard is out. GDP growth has plummeted to 0.3% in the March quarter compared to 1.1% last quarter, leaving economic annual growth at a lackluster 1.7%. Economic growth slowing by one third in past year adds to the pressure piling ...

Five minutes of sunshine tomorrow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... 1.2% increase in inventories in the first quarter of this year - one that should provide a positive contribution to GDP growth. However, there's also bad news. As underscored by the ABS' report's "Key Points", manufacturing sales of good and services ...

Good to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
... meeting was released three weeks after. Chances are they've risen even more following the recent upward revision to US GDP growth. The second estimate of US GDP showed the US economy grew at an annualised rate of 1.2% in the first quarter, much higher ...

Moody's downgraded and upgraded China's ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... reforms deepen. The strengths of its credit profile will allow the sovereign to remain resilient to negative shocks, with GDP growth likely to stay strong compared to other sovereigns, still considerable scope for policy to adapt to support the economy ...

Fed trumps Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
... provide that extra oomph but the FOMC's base case should be enough. The FOMC considered the March quarter slowdown in GDP growth and inflation likely reflected "transitory factors" and members "continued to expect that, with gradual adjustments in the ...

Eurozone ascending

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
... Business activity is expanding at its fastest rate for six years so far in the second quarter, consistent with 0.6-0.7% GDP growth. The consensus forecast of 0.4% second quarter growth could well prove overly pessimistic if the PMI holds its elevated ...

A one-handed clap for ScoMo's Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... Slowing household spending - which accounts for roughly 60% of the economy - threatens the Budget forecasts for 3.0% GDP growth from FY 2018-19 onwards. Oh well, ScoMo can always extend when we get to that elusive surplus...or perhaps his successor w ...

Global infrastructure need deepens profit opportunity

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 MAY 2017
... equities," Shaw said. "In rising markets, 'user pays' assets come into their own. Such assets are usually correlated to GDP growth and are protected from rising interest rates, giving investors an inflation hedge." Shaw said recent history demonstrated ...

No 'Plan B' for Brexit "twist and turns"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017
... of June this year - the BOE remains optimistic over the growth outlook. The British central bank even upgraded its GDP growth outlook to 1.7% (from 1.6% predicted in February) next year and to 1.8% (from 1.7%) in 2019 - the years when the UK and the ...

Another Budget, another promised surplus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
... (National Rail), Gonski 2.0 and the NDIS. The combination of which, along with other variables of course, will deliver real GDP growth of 2.75% in FY 2017/18 and 3% in the following year and "from 2019 20 until 2023-24, real GDP is projected to grow ...