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Fed twists again like it did last summer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... time when most economic and survey data releases were beating market expectations months before. But I digress. Real GDP growth next year is now expected to be only around 2.2%-2.8% compared with April's estimate of 2.7%-3.1%. Lowered growth would bring ...

BRIC slows on Europe woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... largest export - prices have prompted the government to predict an expansion of not more than 4.0% in 2012. India's real GDP growth has more than halved to 5.6% in the first three months of 2012 from 12.6% in the same quarter of 2010. Similarly, China's ...

HSBC invests $100m in water

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... the area is made, seven of the basins will face significant to severe water scarcity, thereby impacting forecasted GDP growth. "Today's findings show that the future of river basins is critical for global economic growth. Rapid, collaborative action ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... institutions only 2 months ago and found that majority could withstand its worst case scenario that includes an 8% drop in GDP growth with the unemployment rate jumping to 13%, a 21% slide in house prices, and a 50% plunge in the stock market. Certainly ...

Fidelity: Asia focusing on intra-region trade

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... the past, said David Urquhart, portfolio manager of the Fidelity Asia Fund. "Today, Asia contributes more to world GDP growth than the US and the EU does combined," he said. While there has been concern that consumption rates in Asian economies have ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... plus 2.3% (Apple's better than expected earnings result helped here). The Fed saw that it was good. It raised its 2012 GDP growth outlook to 2.4%-2.9% from 2.2%-2.7% previously. It reduced its unemployment rate forecasts to 7.8%-8.0% from 8.2%-8.5%. ...

The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... advanced. (In the US, an inverted yield curve had "always" been followed by a recession). Average annual Australian real GDP growth slowed to 2.6% in 2001 from 3.2% in the previous year. It eased from 4.7% in 2007 to 2.5% in 2008 and then to 1.4% in ...

Bring it on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2012
... increased by a more than expected US$5.35 billion in March. Surplus? Slowing? Duh! A trade surplus is a contribution to GDP growth. Now there may be some truth in this if both exports and imports were dropping. A surplus could still be had if exports ...

Boring same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012
... indicators suggesting that the US economy is gaining momentum, the OECD would be remiss if it hadn't done so. US real GDP growth confirms this - unrevised at an annualised rate of 3.0% in the fourth quarter with consumer spending also unchanged at a ...

No fear no greed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012
... exactly what China wants -- to slow the economy to a more sustainable growth rate? Only recently, it downshifted its GDP growth target to 7.5% from 8.0%. Let me repeat my favourite phrase, what China wants, China gets. As an aside, do your sums on the ...