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All about the slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... suggests there's still slack. My Factset screen shows that UK unit wage costs increased by only 0.6% in the year to the March quarter, marginally up from the 0.4% year-on-year rate in the December quarter - suggesting that rising inflation remains not ...

'As expected' changing expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2014
... stronger than consensus expectations for a 3.1% lift - from an upwardly revised 2.1% (from 2.9%) contraction in the March quarter. So why didn't Wall Street jump with joy and sing hallelujah last night? Could it be because of the return of 'The Maestro'? ...

Fixed it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... target in the June quarter from 2.9% previously while the trimmed mean measure quickened to 2.9% from 2.6% in the March quarter. The times, they sure have changed. We've gone from the banks negating the efficacy of RBA rate cuts by not passing them in ...

But they said it was Iraq

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... market expectations for an adjustment to minus 1.8% and the worst GDP contraction since the 5.4% decline back in the March quarter of 2009. No worries. This, after all, is the economic story that happened in the January to March period - ages ago - and ...

UK on the go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... shrinking anew in December of 2012 - to now, the fastest growing G7 country. UK GDP grew by 3.1% in the year to the March quarter this year - nearly double the 1.7% rate King handed over to Carney in the June quarter of 2013. As an aside - and also ...

Indian optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... These, despite the latest National Accounts data that showed Indian economic growth slowed to 4.6% in the year to the March quarter from 4.7% in the previous three-month period. This marked a full two years of sub-5% growth in the Indian economy and ...

Nothing's good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... rejoice at National Statistician's official count that the economy of this land girt by sea expanded by 1.1% in the March quarter - stronger than consensus expectations for an already strong 0.9% advance - and by 3.5% over the year - the fastest pace ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... The Australian share market is trading lower despite better-than-expected headline economic growth figures. The March quarter national accounts released on Wednesday showed the economy expanded by a solid 1.1 per cent, lifting the annual rate to 3.5 ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... problem!... and is not as if the euro area's economy is going gangbusters either. GDP inched up by only 0.2% in the March quarter after inching up a similar 0.2% in the three months to December. Unemployment's weeping for action. If disinflation threatening ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... news on Wednesday, the bureau of statistics releases national accounts, including gross domestic product for the March quarter. The bureau also releases overseas arrivals and departures numbers for April. The Australian Industry Group publishes its Australian ...