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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not so durable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
... inventories climbed by 0.5% (unwanted inventory build-up). The latest update had prompted revisions in US fourth quarter real GDP growth - scheduled for release tomorrow - from an annualised rate of 0.8% (consensus expectations). JPMorgan Chase & Co ...

Be alert to recession amid growth headwinds: PIMCO

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... the global financial crisis and mining boom-to-bust, Australia has had only three isolated quarters of negative real GDP growth over a quarter of a century; a situation PIMCO described as "a miracle". "Aggregate employment is growing," Bowe continued. ...

December moves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... inflation forecasts (I'm pretty sure they've already seen this before they convened last month). The BOE now expects real GDP growth of 1.2% at the end of the 2015 fiscal year (ending 30 April 2016) down from 1.7% it predicted only last July and by 1.4% ...

Road of no return

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... Fed's caveat, that of data dependence. And we got one big one last night, an upward revision in US third quarter real GDP growth from the initial estimate of 1.5% (annualised rate) to 2.1%. The headline number says... go ahead Janet make our day!...the ...

The Fed could get it wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2015
... there on this meeting. Because... "In the forecast prepared for the meeting, the staff left its projection for real GDP growth in the second half of 2008 little changed from the previous meeting, but it marked down its forecast for 2009 slightly. "The ...

Paris adds to the "why nots" for a December lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... commodity prices and to US exports, particularly given the slowdown in China (new target 6.5%) and the Eurozone (real GDP growth eased to 0.3% in the third quarter from 0.4% in the second) and Japan (forecast to fall into another recession when its third ...

The moment of truth cometh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... longer-run objective of 2 percent over 2016 and 2017. "The staff viewed the uncertainty around its July projections for real GDP growth, the unemployment rate, and inflation as similar to the average of the past 20 years. The risks to the forecast for ...