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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
... in the previous month. This measure had been flat (between 1.6% and 1.7%) over the past nine months of this year. Eurozone GDP and inflation Preliminary estimates indicated some stability in the Eurozone economy with real GDP expanding at a quarterly ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... sales 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 ...

Did ECB under-deliver or markets over-expect?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... Eurozone economy and its outlook are worse than many are expecting? But it is not according to the ECB's new forecasts. Eurozone GDP is expected to grow by 1.7% this year (unchanged from September's prediction) and then by 1.9% next year (up from the ...

Breaking the bad in the eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... these days, 'ey? There's no more fear and no more tears, it seems. Not even with reports out only last week that Eurozone GDP fell by 0.2% in the first quarter, taking to six the total number of quarters that the region has been shrinking. And oh, the ...

Ripples from a pebble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... mattress might be safer than keeping them in banks. Cyprus is smaller than Greece -- It accounts for only 0.2% of total Eurozone GDP and just 2.5% of the region's total population. You know there's trouble coming when I mention Greece and Eurozone in ...

Grexit sends investors running for bonds

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
... these concerns it also has a negative impact on household wealth and spending. "A rough estimate is that a 5% fall in eurozone GDP, were it to occur, and would knock 0.4% off Australian economic growth. Oliver told Financial Standard that while it's ...

Torturing the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... tortured US economic data. However, I don't think anybody could make Europe confess. Not with the latest report that Eurozone GDP expanded by 1 per cent in the second quarter - the fastest in four years. Not with Germany recording its best quarterly ...

Love thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... contracted by 0.2 per cent in the fourth quarter and Spain by 0.1 per cent. France grew by 0.6 per cent, helping overall Eurozone GDP growth managed a positive 0.1 per cent uptick in the fourth quarter, but slower than the 0.4 per cent in the third. ...

The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... that 'slow and steady' does not always 'win the race.' Eurostat figures released last Friday the 13th showed that Eurozone GDP contracted by 1.5 per cent in the December quarter and by 1.2 per cent from a year ago. These represented the biggest decline ...

Growth and inflation updates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of England (BoE), European financial markets will be focused mainly on Eurozone GDP growth and inflation figures. While in the UK, attention will be on the BoE's inflation report for the June quarter. Preliminary ...