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Bubbling bubble?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... fresh data out of the US overnight but they provided nada direction for Wall Street. The third estimate of US real GDP growth was revised higher from an annual rate of 2.4% previously to 2.6% but this was less than expectations for an upgrade to 2.7% ...

BRICs without BRI

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... the third quarter of 2013 that followed a 0.10% contraction in the previous quarter. And the I of the BRICs? India's GDP growth has also come down from the heady 10%-13% plus annual rate back in 2010/11 to just 4.7% as at the December quarter of last ...

Whatever works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... connotations for it connotes that the PBOC and China's leaders might be becoming increasingly worried that the 7.5% GDP growth target is at risk. This being that the much-speculated China slowdown is true and that the government is becoming increasingly ...

You go NZ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... by 3.3 percent in the year to March." How much momentum? A few clicks on my Factset screen showed me that NZ's real GDP growth accelerated to 3.1% in the year to the September quarter last year (the latest available) from 2.3% in the same quarter of ...

When saving goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... 1985 (Australia escaped the technical definition of a recession back then only because a positive March quarter 1986 GDP growth came between the contractions in the Q4 1985 and Q2 1986). You know where I'm heading to next, don't you? Yup, the Australian ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... first and second quarters of last year, respectively. All good until...... it ran out of puff. The annualised real GDP growth rate slowed to 1.1% in the third quarter and yesterday, we found that it crawled even more to 1.0% in the last quarter of 2013 ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... explaining away the negatives. There surely wouldn't be any difficulty explaining investors' love for Europe. Eurozone real GDP growth accelerated to 0.3% in the first quarter from 0.1% in the December quarter, taking the annual growth rate up to 0.5% ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... don't know whether it's a short-term blip that will bounce back, or whether indeed it's beginning to tell us that our GDP growth and earnings projections are too high," Stovall said. LONDON - European stocks slid further on expectations of further stimulus ...

Survivor: the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... Haiyan (Yolanda's international name) is predicted to slice around a half percentage point to this year's 7.3%-7.5% GDP growth forecast. While this doesn't sound much, it matters a lot for every Filipino man, woman and child who needs every point percentage ...

Victim of success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... has allowed the economy of the United Kingdom to make great strides. Financial markets now expect third quarter UK GDP growth to accelerate to 0.8% from 0.7% in the previous three months. The rising momentum in economic activity has prompted the International ...