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December moves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... the lifting of the sales tax from 5% to 8% would only constitute a temporary hit on the economy? Well, it's back in recession now. Recent data flows aren't encouraging either. Retail sales have been decelerating - minus 0.2% in the year to September ...

Road of no return

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... 1.5% by July of the same year. Instead of shoring up confidence in the Eurozone economy, it sent the economy back into recession (6 quarters of consecutive contraction at that) and instead of taming the sharp surge in the bond yields of the PIGS back ...

Japan does a double double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... out that, "iie" ("no" in Japanese), the economy isn't "recovering moderately". Instead, the economy has slid back into recession with real GDP contracting at an annualised rate of 0.8% in the third quarter that followed a 0.7% decline in the June quarter ...

Paris adds to the "why nots" for a December lift-off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... (real GDP growth eased to 0.3% in the third quarter from 0.4% in the second) and Japan (forecast to fall into another recession when its third quarter growth is released) and emerging markets. In its latest report, the OECD again downgraded its global ...

Goldman Sachs calls time on BRICs

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
... Bloomberg data shows that the fund had lost 88% of its assets since a 2010 peak. Since then, Russia and Brazil are in recession and China is slowing its growth. According EPFR Global research quoted by Bloomberg, funds investing in BRIC countries have ...

PROFILE: REI Super chief executive Mal Smith

DARREN SNYDER, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... degree and majors in Economics and Statistics from the University of Adelaide in 1981. "At that time there was a bit of a recession going on. In those days, you put your CV out as a new graduate to all of the major employers in town and hoped to get ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... simple explanation: Bad news is good news. Economic activity had been deteriorating - increasing the risk of another recession -- that it has raised expectations that the BOJ provide more accommodation, perhaps, as soon as its next Board meeting on 30 ...

China should have hardlanded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... markedly slowing. Late last year Saul told Australia that "We're explicitly forecasting that there will have been an income recession in the past two quarters". Yes Virginia, Australia has to have a recession. We can't get it on the national output measure... ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
The US Federal Reserve's decision to postpone the rate rise is keeping the world on hold. With volatility set to increase ahead of the rate hike, Laura Millan looks at the global investment opportunities. Just when everyone thought it would happen ...

Inflation expectations says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
Another day, another Fed speaks Fed speak. Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer reportedly "told a group on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund meeting in Peru" that the Fed will raise interest rates this year. But (of course there's ...