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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
... 51.5 in September versus 49.4 in August and expectations for an increase to a reading of 50.2. Eurozone retail sales Euro area retail sales fell by 0.1% in the month of August following a 0.3% increase in the previous month. This is the first negative ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... (reported previously) dropped by 7.6% in the month of August. Eurozone confidence Several measures of confidence in the euro area improved in September: Economic sentiment up to 104.9 in September from 103.5 in August; industrial sentiment up to minus ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... construction output were also recorded in Slovenia (up 2.0%), Spain (1.9%) and Germany (1.8%). In year-on-year terms, euro area construction output rose by 3.1% in July after a 0.6% gain in the previous month. Russian retail sales Despite the sharp improvement ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016
... continue to expect the economic recovery to proceed at a moderate but steady pace. In addition, the fiscal stance in the euro area is expected to be mildly expansionary in 2016 and to turn broadly neutral in 2017 and 2018. However, the economic recovery ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... production declined by 3.3% after falling by 3.5% in March. Eurozone industrial production Industrial output in the euro area jumped by 2.0% in the year to April following a small 0.2% gain in the previous month. This is better than market expectations ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
... November and 1.8 in December 2015 when the Fed lifted off last December. Eurozone retail PMI Some good news out of the euro area. Markit Economics' Eurozone retail PMI - which tracks monthly changes in like-for-like retail sales in the region's three ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016
... interest rate policy. But the story here is the disappointing euro industrial production result. Industrial output in the euro area declined by 0.8% in the month of March following a 1.2% drop in the previous month and lower than market expectations ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
... Euro economic sentiment It seems like the ECB's aggressive monetary policy stimulus is beginning to bear fruit. The ZEW euro area economic sentiment index - a measure of optimism over the current and expected economic situation over the next six months ...

A "must do" for the ECB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
Latest euro area inflation data released by Eurostat has all but ensured that ECB President Mario Draghi will make good on his 21 January promise to "...reconsider our monetary policy stance at our next meeting in early March" aka increase policy stimulus. ...

One down, two to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... to 0.3% in the second quarter, down from 0.4% in the first and less than expectations for a 0.4% print. Growth in the euro area's three biggest economies all came in behind expectations. While growth in Germany quickened to 0.4% in the June quarter from ...