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While America was shuttered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... meets the ceiling" theatre is over. Let's watch the China channel. The economy's going where PM Li likes it to be - GDP growth quickened to 7.8% in the third quarter from 7.5% in the previous one. Bo-ring. It's the same old story...the economy hits a ...

Calendar says buy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013
... Xmas. Never you mind that S&P Ratings Services calculates that the 16-day shutdown sliced 0.6% off US fourth quarter GDP growth from around 2.2% to 1.6%. That sort of growth keeps Fed taper at bay. Financial markets now expect the Fed to begin tapering ...

Asia-Pacific HNWI wealth growth triple global average

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2013
... the region's HNWI population grew by 9.4% to reach 3.68 million and wealth grew by 12.2% to US$12 trillion, driven by GDP growth of 5.5%, which is more than double the global average. Strong equity and real estate market performance across the region ...

OMTs - one year on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... improvement in the region's economy. This is no better highlighted than in the Eurozone's National Accounts that showed real GDP growth expanded by 0.3% in the second quarter - the first expansion in the economy after one and half years of contraction.A ...

Employer super contributions down as jobless figure rises

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... a number of factors, including a rise in unemployment - from 5.1% in June 2012 to 5.7 % in June 2013 - and slowing GDP growth. "It is also possible that the leakage to SMSFs is taking higher contributing members from the APRA regulated sector meaning ...

Buy me a house

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... continued to grow below trend in the second quarter when the Australian National Accounts are released - experts guess GDP growth of 0.6% on the quarter and 2.5% year-on-year.A That's still below trend growth of 3.0%. The disappointing retail sales report ...

30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... growth despite offshore volatility and domestic uncertainty - tomorrow's National Accounts is expected to show real GDP growth of 0.6% in the second quarter (2.5% year-on-year) - what more with the reduction/elimination of these. But boo hoo hoo.A I ...

Growth and QE - will this time be different?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... all systems go! There's only one conclusion that can be concluded from the upward revision in second quarter US real GDP growth - up at annualised rate of 2.5% from the prelim 1.7% estimate - and Wall Street's positive reaction to that... Need I spell ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... above the 1.1 per cent pace expected by analysts. However, the report also included a steep downgrade in first-quarter GDP growth, which is now estimated at 1.1 per cent instead of 1.8 per cent. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee ...

Economy 'not running out of puff': Wayne Swan

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... rely on unfettered growth in China to support the mining sector but Australia, following 22 years of uninterrupted GDP growth, was well placed to take advantage of enormous structural shifts occurring in the Asia Pacific region. "Australia's continuing ...