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Chief economist update: US inflation hits target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
... straight month of slowing) from 0.5% in April. This suggests another small contribution from the biggest contributor to US GDP growth (70%) in the second quarter. Recall that the first quarter US National Accounts showed the contribution from personal ...

Chief economist update: It's always slow in America in Q1

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
The third and final estimate of US GDP growth showed the economy grew at an annualised rate of 2% in the first quarter of 2018. This is lower than market expectations and would be unchanged from the second estimate's 2.2% rate. While the slight ...

Chief economist update: Not as good as it gets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
... of the quarter." This is good but some analysts are saying, this is as good as it gets, pointing to the deceleration in US GDP growth in the first quarter of this year to an annualised rate of 2.3% from 2.9% in the December 2017 quarter and 3.2% in the ...

Chief economist update: Back to the shops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... news is that the March rebound has come in late for consumer spending to make a significant contribution to first quarter US GDP growth. Estimates show that consumer spending slowed to an annualised rate of 1.5% in the March quarter after the December ...

Chief economist update: Can't get enough of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... True, this. But the US economy is experiencing a trade deficit because it's growing by much more than these countries: US GDP per capita grew by 15.8% between 2016 and 2017; China by 7.0%; Japan by 2.9%; South Korea by 10.2%; Germany by 3.0%; India by ...

Chief economist update: The angel in the details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
The US economy had been expected to slow in the fourth quarter of 2017... but not this slow. The advance estimate of US GDP showed economic growth decelerated to a 2.6% annual rate in the December 2017 quarter from a two-and-a-half-year high of 3.2% ...

The darling buds of inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... autos) accelerated to a year-on-year rate of 6.3% from 6.2% in November, indicating a solid contribution to fourth quarter US GDP growth. To put this in perspective, the three-month moving average in core retail spending sped up to 5.7% (year-on-year) ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... the Nasdaq has reached a fresh record high, producing a 19.5% gain this year to date. To be sure, the second estimate of US GDP showed the economy grew by a stronger 3% (annualised) in the June quarter, faster than the preliminary estimate of 2.7%. The ...

Good to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
... May meeting was released three weeks after. Chances are they've risen even more following the recent upward revision to US GDP growth. The second estimate of US GDP showed the US economy grew at an annualised rate of 1.2% in the first quarter, much higher ...

100 days of Trump (and counting)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... expectations, better than the 70% one-year average." It's not looking so good for the economy though with the advance estimate of US GDP slowing to an annualised rate of 0.7% in the first quarter from 2.1% in the December 2016 quarter. This is below ...