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Which part of the elephant are you holding?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
... Paul Dales, "supports our view that the biggest surpluses are in the past and that net exports were a drag on real GDP growth in the first quarter". That may be, but we're already in the midst of the second quarter. And so far, latest data show global ...

Expanding expansion in manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2017
... manufacturing index may not be a first tier economic indicator but recent history shows that it picked the direction of GDP growth, in particular, the contraction in the third quarter of last year and the subsequent strong rebound in the December qua ...

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... investment, slows while the contributions from exports and business investment increase. The Bank now projects real GDP growth of 2 1/2 per cent in 2017 and just below 2 per cent in 2018 and 2019." To be sure, the Canadian economy had been gaining momentum ...

Sunrise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... trading partners. The better news is the 15.8% jump in imports. Although this would provide a negative contribution to GDP growth, it also indicates strengthening domestic demand. Similar to the trend in exports, the year-on-year growth in Japanese purchases ...

Going good but there are risks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... just-released "OECD Economic Surveys, Australia" provided a pretty growth picture of the domestic economy, forecasting GDP growth of 2.6% this year and 3.1% in 2018 - one that would lower the current jobless rate from 5.7% (January 2017) to 5.5% by the ...

What a drag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
... exports in the coming months. While the rise in imports in January continues to be a drag on net exports and, therefore, GDP growth, the details of the ABS' trade report showed that this was mainly due to increases in consumption goods (7%) over the ...

Australia missing golden export opportunity

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
... industry cannot be overstated. As Australia's largest industry, the financial services sector is a critical driver of GDP growth, a major employer and one of the core industries in Australia's economy."

Good credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
... region. Only last week, Markit Economics printed that "The eurozone economy moved up a gear in February, suggesting that "GDP growth of 0.6% could be seen in the first quarter if this pace of expansion is sustained into March" when it released its flash ...

A tale of three PMIs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2017
... 55.5 from 55.2). This, according to Markit, shows, "The eurozone economy moved up a gear in February, suggesting that "GDP growth of 0.6% could be seen in the first quarter if this pace of expansion is sustained into March". The Nikkei flash Japan composite ...

Lifted by external demand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2017
... important, private consumption -- which accounts for around 60% of the economy -- contributed nothing to fourth quarter GDP growth as it did in the third quarter. Worse, it was flat over the quarter, down from a 0.3% increase in Q3. The recent wages ...