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Expecting the expected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
... expected, the European Central Bank (ECB) kept monetary policy settings unchanged. The Eurosystem staff projects annual real GDP growth of 2.4% in 2017, 2.3% in 2018 and 1.9% in 2019. "Compared with the September 2017 ECB staff macroeconomic projections ...

Taxing times

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2017
... the American is doing quite nicely, thank you very much. Despite the negative impact of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, US real GDP only dipped slightly to an annualised rate of 3% in the third quarter from 3.1% in the June quarter which is the fastest growth ...

Another Budget, another promised surplus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
... (National Rail), Gonski 2.0 and the NDIS. The combination of which, along with other variables of course, will deliver real GDP growth of 2.75% in FY 2017/18 and 3% in the following year and "from 2019 20 until 2023-24, real GDP is projected to grow ...

Budget Eve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... for the Budget too. Recall that in the Mid-year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO)2016-17, the government lowered its real GDP prediction to 2.75% for FY2017/18 from 3% forecasts in May last year. The forecast extra growth would allow the government ...

Which part of the elephant are you holding?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
... Economics Paul Dales, "supports our view that the biggest surpluses are in the past and that net exports were a drag on real GDP growth in the first quarter". That may be, but we're already in the midst of the second quarter. And so far, latest data ...

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... residential investment, slows while the contributions from exports and business investment increase. The Bank now projects real GDP growth of 2 1/2 per cent in 2017 and just below 2 per cent in 2018 and 2019." To be sure, the Canadian economy had been ...

Low-flation at the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... until the end of 2017. The ECB's policy statement revealed its optimism over the region's cyclical recovery... "Euro area real GDP increased by 0.4%, quarter on quarter, in the fourth quarter of 2016, following a similar pace of growth in the third quarter. ...

Will 2017 be a mirror image of 2016?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JAN 2017
... will deliver on his promised reflation - one that would bring about stronger growth (he's aiming for 3%-4% growth in US real GDP) that would lift company profits - and all the good things that go with it (investments in capital and labour) - and an end ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2016
... quarterly drop since the 0.2% fall registered in March 2011. The latest figure takes the year-on-year growth rate in real GDP growth down to 1.8% in the September quarter from 3.1% in the second but (using the same measure) still ahead of the US (1.6%) ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2016
... Japan needs. The March 2011 quake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown sent what was already a slowing economy back into recession. Real GDP contracted by 2.0% in the March 2011 quarter and by 0.6% in the following three-month period. Not now when domestic spending ...