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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
Japan GDP Preliminary estimates of Japan's third quarter economy provided a positive surprise. Japanese real GDP growth accelerated to a quarterly rate of 0.5% in the three months to September from 0.2% in the June quarter and more than double market ...

Trump is heaven's gift to central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... deficit would increase because to increased government spending and lower revenues through the reduction in taxes. But if GDP growth expands as a result - the worst outcome would be a stable budget deficit to GDP ratio. It'll be the same with the ratio ...

Raising rates on soybeans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... real state of the US economy at best. While consumer spending remains strong, contributing 1.5 percentage points to GDP growth, this has slowed sharply from the 2.9 pps it contributed to growth in the June quarter. How would higher interest rates affect ...

Asia-Pacific leads global HNW population and wealth

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
... the strongest pillars supporting the rise in HNWI wealth in the region, allowing investors to overcome slow Chinese GDP growth, a stagnant Japanese economy and volatile EU and US economies. China and Japan drove more than 90% of Asia-Pacific's and 60% ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
... keep rates steady till "end-2016 with a possibility to cut it in 2017 Q1-Q2" to achieve its baseline 2017 forecast of GDP growth of not more than 1.0%, provided inflation continues to ease. It's getting there. Russian inflation slowed to 6.4% in the ...

New fund of funds taps Indian equity specialists

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016
... invest in India. Among those reasons are that India is now the world's fastest growing major economy with China-style GDP growth, currently over 7.5% p.a. Whilst as we've seen with China, growth can stagnate, it is important to understand that India ...

Vanguard changes emerging markets ETF index

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016
... for investors; representing the world's second-largest GDP, China accounts for 16% of world GDP and has shown a 6.3% GDP growth rate.

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016
... (from 2.3%) and added 0.1 percentage points to growth. Net exports subtracted 0.3 percentage points off June quarter GDP growth as exports fell (down 1.5%) by more than imports (down 0.1%) in the June quarter. In year-on-year terms, Japan's real GDP ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
... of Statistics (ABS) released the country's National Accounts report showing that while the economy's quarterly real GDP growth halved to 0.5% in the three months to June from 1.0% in the March quarter, the annual growth rate of 3.3% in the June quarter ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... were flat in July; Chinese retail sales, industrial production, fixed asset investment and inflation slowed; Eurozone GDP growth halved to 0.3% in the June quarter from 0.6% in the first; UK house prices fell by 1% in the month of July, manufacturing ...