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Bottoms up

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton, which used more than a century worth of data from 83 countries, the correlation between GDP growth and stock returns is statistically non-existent. The example of China and the UK over the past 25 years illuminates the point. ...

Spoiling for war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... hasn't sang... Elvis is still in the building. Just look at the US data releases last night. US second quarter real GDP growth was upwardly revised to an annualised rate of 1.7 per cent (from 1.6 per cent). Good, but not good enough. This remains less ...

The good smoke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... Japan Research Institute, this frontloading would add 1.4 percentage points to the third quarter's annualised real GDP growth. Economist expects real GDP to grow at an annual rate of 1.7 per cent in the September quarter from 1.5 per cent in the second. ...

Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
... the Eurozone economy grew stronger than originally measured. Eurostat revised its initial estimate of euro area real GDP growth from 1.7 per cent in the year to the second quarter to a faster expansion of 1.9 per cent. Not only that, it also upgraded ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... Wall Street stopped... listened... and rejoiced. Neither the US Commerce Department's slicing of its second quarter GDP growth estimate to 1.6 per cent from 2.4 per cent nor Intel's revenue warning got the market down the day Big Ben declared that he's ...

Numero Dos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
... structure based on 85 yen to the dollar, that would be disastrous..." And if you think Japan's second quarter real GDP growth was bad, try factoring out the effect of falling prices. Conventionally, inflation is taken away from nominal GDP to arrive ...

Weak old news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
... slipped by 0.1% and unfilled orders were flat. Ah... so, this is why there was that big contribution from inventories to GDP growth in the second quarter. Speaking of second quarter real GDP growth, haven't we already seen these numbers in one form or ...

Just a typical pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... still waiting US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee to mark the end. US Real GDP Growth 1990 Recession.....................2001 Recession...........................2007 Recession....................Q/Q.......Y/Y..................................Q/Q.........Y/Y..................................Q/Q.........Y/Y ...

Waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... these numbers been interspersed with reports that point in the opposite direction. Last week saw US first quarter real GDP growth revised lower to an annual rate of 2.7 per cent, revised lower from the 3 per cent in the second estimate, revised lower ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... measure of the country's output, to 2.7 per cent. The third and final estimate was the second downward revision of GDP growth for the January-March period, which had been initially calculated at 3.2 per cent before being adjusted down to 3.0 per cent ...