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Over-reliant bank lending slows OECD economic growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... sector slows growth in most OECD countries, including Australia. "A rise of bank credit by 10% of GDP translates into a GDP growth rate that is 0.3 percentage points less than would otherwise be the case," an OECD statement said. Risks from an over-reliance ...

Australia's "irrational exuberance" an economic risk: PIMCO

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... means that an external shock would be severe for the economy, PIMCO said. Household debt appears to be rising, even as GDP growth and income slow, the latest analysis paper 'A look at rising household debt in Australia and the implications for policy' ...

Rising bond yields a blip

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... Australian bonds to begin rallying again is perhaps strongest of all. This would be partially explained by a first quarter GDP growth of 0.9% (quarter on quarter) that was driven by a lift in exports and inventories. He said household consumption and ...

BOJ in (tactical) retreat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... now more optimistic on the economic outlook. Can't blame it. After all the Cabinet Office just upgraded first quarter GDP growth from an annualised rate of 2.4% to 3.9%. How good is that? Then again, household spending continues to contract, down 1.3% ...

Better than the big boys

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... comparison to the G-7 countries' economic growth performance in the first quarter of this year. While Australia's real GDP growth of 0.9% in the first quarter surpassed expectations, majority of blokes and sheilas saw the "half-empty glass" year-on-year ...

Winter of our discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... quarter -- from 0.5% in Q4 2014; Germany to 0.3% and the UK to 0.3%, from 0.7% and 0.6%, respectively. Canadian and Swiss GDP growth (released after the OECD report) rode the same slow (reversing?) train to the first quarter. Canada's economy contracted ...

You can forget June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... seasonal adjustment" by the San Fran Fed I ranted about two days ago to turn the reported 0.2% annualised March quarter GDP growth into 1.8? It wasn't mentioned on the April FOMC Statement, but the minutes revealed that members discussed the "damping ...

Lies, stats and damned double seasonal adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... Janet Yellen was president of from 2004 to 2010 - just did. The San Fran Fed solved "The Puzzle of Weak First-Quarter GDP Growth"! "The official estimate of real GDP growth for the first three months of 2015 was shockingly weak. However, such estimates ...

Good Budget, bad Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... closer to that predicted time and actuals are catching up with projections, but Budget 2015/16 projection of 2.75% GDP growth is well... closer to the truth. In the out years through to the MYEFO last December, real GDP had always been assumed to grow ...

RBA cuts as expected, A$ does the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... methinks even the Fed is uncertain on the precise timing of a lift-off. The lower-than-expected 0.2% annualised real GDP growth in the first quarter certainly argues against a sooner-rather-than-later lift off. More so because the US GDP report showed ...