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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 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 ...

Fixed income China's sweet spot

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
... to transition from an investment-driven growth model to a consumption based model. He predicts that China's headline GDP growth will decelerate to 5-6% over the next few years, but emphasises the probability of a hard landing as low. "While China's slowdown ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2016
... a leading indicator of business investment - decreased by 2.5% over the month. Not a good outcome for first quarter GDP growth but last week's reported rebound in the ISM manufacturing index to expansion territory in March offers a bit of encouragement. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... 0.1% last month following a sharp downward revision in January's number from 0.5% to 0.1%. The report suggests that GDP growth expectations for a 1.0% annualised rate in the first quarter (from 1.4% Q4) could be revised lower. This, along with still ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... alongside the similar downturn seen in the sister services PMI in February, the survey data are pointing to very modest GDP growth in the first quarter." (Markit Economics) Markit flash Eurozone composite PMI A sharp improvement in the eurozone's services ...

No tears for China's disappointing data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2016
... fixed investment (and exports) and the need for increased policy accommodation or it risks missing even its lowered GDP growth target if 6.5% - 7.0%. But despite the negative implications, financial markets weren't perturbed (this time) -- calmed by ...

Another standout economic performance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2016
... third. Household consumption provided the biggest contribution to growth (0.4 percentage point) to fourth quarter real GDP growth, offsetting the 0.4 pps subtraction from non-dwelling investment. Government consumption and investment added 0.1 pp and ...

Crouching services, contracting manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... end-December. It cut interest rates five times from 5.60% to 4.35% by the end of the year. While these have helped keep GDP growth (6.9% in 2015) close to last year's 7.0% target, the trend from the factory and services sector PMI surveys suggest that ...

A "chilling" moment for the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... at the height of this month's stock selloff on Feb. 11." While it helped, the upward revision to fourth quarter real GDP growth from an annualised rate of 0.7% to 1.0% wasn't it for it was mainly due to higher stock building. It's last quarter's news ...

Financial services to be a greater part of "economic narrative"

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
... According to the RBA, this is partly what explains the fact that employment growth in 2015 was above average, even though GDP growth was not," he said. "If we want to be forward-looking and plan for the future sources of our growth, it's clear that the ...