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Forward guidance at its best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2014
... and confidence falling back." Not us. The UK economy is still growing nicely, thank you very much. The BOE left its GDP growth forecast at 3.5% this year and tempered it a bit to 2.9% in 2015 (from 3.0% predicted in the August Quarterly Inflation Report) ...

Rejoice for the A$ has fallen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
... been telling me that Australia was, and still is, in recession nearly four years ago now. Morgan Stanley lowered its GDP growth forecast to 3.2% (from 3.4%) this year -- not a big problem this side of the New Year. It is at the other side though that's ...

Why the eurozone cannot afford cheap oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... that the European Commission (EC) downgraded its growth and inflation forecasts for the Eurozone. The EC now expects GDP growth of just 0.8% this year for the region (down from 1.2% estimated in May) and 1.1% in 2015 (down from 1.7%) and inflation of ...

Real stagflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... Perhaps they cheated and have had a little peep at the data, but last night's advance estimate of US third quarter real GDP growth confirmed the Fed's positive outlook on the economy and gave meat to its decision to end its quantitative easing programme. ...

ECB QE go riding on Fed QE stop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
... significantly deteriorated since February when the ECB/ESRB (European Systemic Risk Board) published its baseline forecast: GDP growth of 1.2% in 2014 and 1.8% in 2015 and 1.7% in 2016. Inflation of 1.0% in 2014 and 1.25% in 2015 and 1.50% in 2016. These ...

Are we there yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... prompting fears of a triple dip recession there. But we already know this, right Virginia? From the time the second quarter GDP growth figures were released three months ago we knew. It doesn't take a fourth grader to add 0% GDP growth plus low-flation ...

Average September on average

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... thinking of trading sanctions for seizure? The news that did it seems to be the upward revision in US second quarter real GDP growth from strong - 4.2% -- to stronger - 4.6% -- annualised quarterly rate. The US bond market also appears to agree. Yields ...

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... below US75Ac - a fall of around 20 per cent - on a combination of the lower interest rate differential and slumping GDP growth, with commodity price effects outweighing volumes." Wait, hold your horses, hang on. The A$ weakening below US$0.75? That's ...

Instant replay of the song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... 2.50% by end-2016; and, 3.75% by end 2017 (not forecasted in June). These forecasts seem inconsistent with the lowered GDP growth forecasts: 2.6%-3.0% (from 3.0%-3.2%) in 2015; 2.6%-2.9% (from 2.5%-3.0%) in 2016 and 2.3%-2.5% (again not forecasted last ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... that the kitchen sink would come later - was good enough. With the eurozone economy in a coma - second quarter real GDP growth was zero - and low-flation - annual rate of CPI inflation currently at 0.3% (the slowest since September 2009) -- threatening ...