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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
... president Esther George voted with her colleagues at the June meeting. Revised projections show the Fed now expects GDP growth to expand by 2.0% in both 2016 and 2017, down from the 2.2% (2016) and 2.1%) projected in March. Projections for the unemployment ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
... business investment (down 0.7% from the initial estimate of a 1.4% decrease). On an annualised basis, Japan's real GDP growth expanded by 1.9% in the first quarter of this year, up from the initial estimate of 1.7% and a sharp reversal from the December ...

Concerns about EM unwarranted: William Blair

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
... although it has declined, it is relative to developed markets. "This [factor] is important because research shows relative GDP growth rates are a key factor in determining outperformance of emerging versus developed markets," McClone said.

Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2016
... sunk to a level that we're trying to get up to. So, my heart goes out to you". That was the time when Australia's real GDP growth slowed to a 4-year low of 1.8% year-on-year (March 2013 quarter). This time, annual growth had been accelerating for three ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... the better than expected 0.4% increase in business inventories in the March quarter would contribute to first quarter GDP growth - due out tomorrow and expected to grow by 0.6% over the quarter and 2.7% year-on-year - it would be a detraction from GDP ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... Singapore had been falling for 18 straight months - down 0.5% in April from down 1.0 in the previous month. The latest GDP growth outcome won't help much. The Singapore economy expanded by 1.8% in the year to the March quarter, the same annual growth ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016
... of the economy increases the likelihood of achieving the DBCC-approved [Development Budget Coordination Committee] GDP growth projection of 6.8% to7.8 percent for full year 2016, despite the weak agriculture and fishery sector". The latest growth figures ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2016
... market expectations for a similar 2.8% pace. The NESDB - the country's economic planning agency - now expects 2016 GDP growth of 3.0%-3.5%, tighter but hardly different from its February projection of 2.8%-3.8%. Japan machine tool orders There's still ...

Further monetary stimulus risks woeful asset returns

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... coming years than they have been historically. Under its own modelling, Standard Life Investments believes global real GDP growth of 1% combined with 1% inflation and sub-1% interest rates would translate to an annualised equity market return of just ...

May sell may go away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
... US first quarter GDP confirmed the slowing momentum earlier indicated by earlier stats on economic activity. US real GDP growth slowed to a an annualised rate of 0.5% in the March quarter - expectations were for a 0.7% print and the weakest growth rate ...