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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 ...

Designer slowdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... from 8.3% to 7.7 in 2014? Those are still higher than what the Politburo wants. "Please don't forget that our expected GDP growth rate this year is 7.0%." This was what China's Finance Minister, Lou Jiwei, told his interviewers after attending the US-China ...

Once more from the top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... the near future". And from the one that started it all. Commenting on the downward revision in US first quarter real GDP growth to an annualised rate of 1.8% (from 2.4% previously), Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond president Jeffrey Lacker said that ...

The death of QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... more people out of the Aussie, it should put emerging talks of an Australian recession - after the disappointing 0.6% GDP growth in the first quarter - to rest.

Out of sight, out of mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... connection. That is disappointing economic data equals no Fed taper. Hip, hip. The equation. Disappointing US stats - Q1 real GDP growth revised lower to 2.4% from 2.5% (initial estimate) ; jobless claims increased by 10K last week; pending home sales ...

Value in EM debt and bank loans for bond investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... in countries from outside the G20. Mexico, one of Invesco preferred fixed income regions, has less debt and better GDP growth than the more established bond markets, for instance. It also has a fundamentally improving credit rating. Despite a recent ...

Boston Bombs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2013
... have retired but new Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang is making sure Wen still gets what Wen wants -- that of a 7.5% GDP growth and that of shifting China's growth driver from external to domestic consumption. China national stats data show that this ...

Ben's your uncle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... withdrawn. The other news, you can take as good or bad. It's bad it's bad you know it...because the Fed lowered its GDP growth forecasts for this year. It now expects the economy to expand by between 2.3% and 2.8% at the end of 2013, down from its earlier ...

The happening

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
... that PIMCO's co-chief investment officer, Bill Gross, now believes the economy is "moving towards a 3 percent real GDP growth rate" this year - up sharply from the 1.25% - 1.75% growth for 2013 his bond firm predicted at the end of last year. It says ...

More than five minutes this time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... consumption tax from 3% to 5% back in late 1997/early 1998. It also snuffed the life out of the gathering recovery back then. GDP growth peaked at 3.3% in Q1 1997 before giving way to almost two years of contraction in 1998 and 1999. But what if the ...