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Chief economist update: US recession a sure thing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
... been in the negative range since August. Projecting forward using past values of the spread and GDP growth suggests that real GDP will grow at about a 1.7% rate over the next year." As it turned out, US GDP contracted at annualised growth rate of 2.3% ...

Australia in effective recession: Academic

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... up 2.1% through the year," Frydenberg said on the ABC. "Whereas, in Labor's last year in office, it was down 1.2%. Real GDP per capita and the talk of a recession really is inaccurate because the best indicator of a recession is what happens to GDP ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone growth slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... its macroeconomic projections at the ECB meeting in September. The ECB staff macroeconomic projections "foresee annual real GDP increasing by 2% in 2018 (from the previous forecast of 2.1%), 1.8% in 2019 (from 1.9%) and 1.7% in 2020 (unchanged). The ...

Chief economist update: Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018
... €15 billion from October to December 2018, and will then end. The ECB staff macroeconomic projections "foresee annual real GDP increasing by 2% in 2018, 1.8% in 2019 and 1.7% in 2020. Since the ECB's last outing in July, the Eurozone's economic ...

Japan needs trade peace with the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... external accounts especially with the latest contraction in its economy. Preliminary estimates show that the country's real GDP contracted by 0.2% in the March quarter, more than reversing the 0.1% gain in the previous three-month period. Another quarter ...

Chief economist update: Onwards and downwards to a recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2018
... It's over! Japan's eight consecutive quarters of expansion is no more. Preliminary estimates show the country's real GDP contracted by 0.2% in the March quarter, more than reversing the 0.1% gain in the previous three-month period. Another ...

Chief economist update: Dot tales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... highlighted by the Fed's revised economic projections: Fed Board members and Fed Reserve Bank presidents' median projection for real GDP growth was revised higher to 2.7% this year (from 2.5% predicted in December 2017) and 2.4% next year (from 2.1%) ...

Chief economist update: Consumers don't spend on confidence alone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JAN 2018
... for around two-thirds of Australia's economy, here's to looking forward to stronger GDP growth in the coming quarters. Real GDP slowed to a quarterly rate of 0.6% in the three-month period ending September 2017 from 0.9% in the previous one. The National ...

Chief economist update: ECB sees low rates for longer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2018
... This also implies that the region no longer needs a cheap euro to support the economy. The annual growth in Eurozone real GDP accelerated from 2.4% in the June 2017 quarter to a six-year high of 2.6% in the September 2017 quarter. In its December meeting ...

Pre-Christmas delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2017
... pressures. The US Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) latest estimate of US potential output growth is 1.8%. Then again, US real GDP growth had been running above this rate since the December quarter of last year (and the unemployment rate below the ...