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Obama punts on US$300bn jobs package

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... about 5% - the level where Australian unemployment is stuck. Contributing to the malaise he is wrestling with is 1% GDP growth, a sluggish housing market that is sapping consumer confidence and retail sales figures so low the markets became excited last ...

Coin toss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... don't have to complete the NBER recession indicator set is monthly GDP. But the quarter-on-quarter result showed real GDP growth had improved to 0.3% in the June quarter (though we may get a lower reading when the second estimate is released tomorrow) ...

Willing America into a dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... accelerating over the past three months. And at 3.7% (year-on-year), industrial production is more consistent with GDP growth rates of between 2-3% rather than the second quarter's reading of 1.3% annualised. (As an aside, the second estimate of June ...

Debt crisis not so bad for Latin America

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... are going through challenging transitions at this moment but their outlook is very positive." "For Brazil, you have a GDP growth of around 4-5%, inflation was the issue but it is getting under control at 5-6%, which would really allow the country to ...

S.O.S

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... as it added to yesterday's disappointing ISM manufacturing index numbers and last week's poor US second quarter real GDP growth result. One thing I could say, it really feels like August 2010 all over again. And we all know what happened back then - ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... much slower pace than economists had expected. Notably, the government also slashed its estimate for first-quarter GDP growth from 1.9 per cent to just 0.4 per cent. Stock markets later made up some ground but remained depressed as investors worried ...

IFM mandate heats up Poland

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... investment in the regulated district heating sector. IFM said Poland has strong economic fundamentals with a forecast GDP growth of 4% in the coming years and was an ideal choice as it provides IFM's institutional investors with greater exposure to a ...

The road to ruin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... have to say there's no way out." How did this come about? Greece was admitted to the Eurozone on 1 January 2001. GDP growth: 3.3 per cent Unemployment rate: 10.7 per cent Budget deficit as a percentage of GDP: minus3.7 per cent (close to the mandated ...

The seventh day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... round the world and look at the news reports that littered cyberspace over the past 24 hours: Japan first quarter real GDP growth was revised to show the economy contracting at an annualised rated of 3.5 per cent, less than the preliminary reading of ...

All good but for the dollar A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... rhetoric and commentaries, the Australian stock market was unable to hold onto its gains on the day the "as expected" GDP growth contraction was released. Not even after of the strong lead from Wall Street the night before. The All Ordinaries Index ended ...