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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 ...

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... America is consuming less "made outside the USA" products. Trade detracted around 0.7 percentage points from US real GDP growth in the first quarter. The way it's going - particularly given the US dollar appreciation - net exports would also be a drag ...

Love thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2010
... 0.2 per cent in the fourth quarter and Spain by 0.1 per cent. France grew by 0.6 per cent, helping overall Eurozone GDP growth managed a positive 0.1 per cent uptick in the fourth quarter, but slower than the 0.4 per cent in the third. Double-dip here ...

No pleasing Mr. Market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... markets with Big Ben's confirmation for a second term at the Fed's helm. US GDP. At some other point in time, US real GDP growth of 5.7 per cent would have set off alarm bells. Hey, we're growing too hard and fast, hit the brakes would be what we'll ...

L-U-V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... 'Key regional charts', the 'gross domestic product - yearly changes %' in particular. What do you see? You see the GDP growth pattern of the USA, Japan, Euro area, and the OECD as a whole in the shape of a V. This is almost similar to the International ...

Trick or treat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... economy handed it a treat last Thursday in the form of a better-than-expected 3.5 per cent annualised growth in US real GDP growth in the third quarter. Ahhh...all is well. The US economy is back to growth. But Halloween is not otherwise known as the ...

Arise Chindonesia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... many food, cosmetic and bath products. This abundance of natural resources helped propel Indonesia to 3.5 per cent GDP growth this year. For Indonesia to make the transition will require many steps, reported a Jakarta Post editorial earlier this year ...

Small caps and Asia on Auscoal radar

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... Asian ex-Japan economies and opportunity to allocate to specialist managers in this region to exploit the continued GDP growth [there]. "Another theme Auscoal Super is exploring is small caps - Australian investors tend to take a global allocation to ...

Lucky, lucky, lucky

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... spreadsheets - upping their growth estimates -- to ensure that at least they come close to the actual Australian real GDP growth result for the second quarter. But whether they do or not is moot. The second quarter is passed. And given the partial indicators ...

It's coming true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2009
... 1.4 per cent in the first. This good news on the Eurozone followed similar spectacular improvement in second quarter GDP growth reports in the US, the UK and China. But alas, Wall Street and World Street can't have it all - on a daily basis that is. ...