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China: economy rising, market sinking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... day, perhaps when the economy is in much better shape. In the meantime, things continue to look up in China. Tthe National Bureau of Statistics and China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing reported that the country's manufacturing PMI increased to ...

Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... index closed at 676.5 points that very day - which turned out to be the GFC episode bottom and months later, the National Bureau of Economic Research declared the US recession finished in the June quarter of 2009. There's plenty more of Roubini's failed ...

Coin toss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... indicators and the financial markets' gloomy mood to back up their beliefs. But - again - the indicators watched by the National Bureau of Economic Research (the guys responsible for dating US recessions) still don't show a recession is looming. Let's ...

Willing America into a dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... American recession and perhaps a European one. I must admit that despite checking up on the indicators that the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee tracks to date US recessions over the weekend and finding that ...

Lost GPS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
And so here we are ladies and gents. Very much unsure of where financial markets are gonna go. In times like these, it becomes so easy to get swept up by the mood of the mob. Someone shouts "sell" and everybody rush to the exits - never mind why, we ...

S.O.S

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... dates recessions. Harvard University economics professor Martin Feldstein, one of the members of committee at the National Bureau of Economic Research, said he sees a 50 percent chance that the U.S. will relapse into another recession" (Bloomberg). Wall ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... product growth eased to 9.5 per cent in the second quarter of 2011 from 9.7 per cent in the previous quarter, the National Bureau of Statistics said. But the growth rate was better than market forecasts of 9.4 per cent. St George Bank senior economist ...

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... what I found. I went back to the US recessions of 1990/91 and 2001. Counted 18 months (1.5 year) from when the US National Bureau of Economic Research declared the recession kaput. And guess what? After 18 months, US employment grew by only 0.56 per ...

QE2 or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... cent. This is the first monthly decline since June 2009. Remember that month? That was when - according to the National Bureau of Economic Research Business Cycle Dating Committee - the US recession ended. Well guess what? The fresh data on industrial ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... night, so it's probably a bit cautious." On Wall Street overnight, stocks surged to a four-month high after the National Bureau of Economic Research confirmed the world's biggest economy emerged from recession in June last year. The Dow Jones Industrial ...