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Recession over, now for the recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
"The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research met yesterday by conference call. At its meeting, the committee determined that a trough in business activity occurred in the U.S. economy in June 2009. The trough marks ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... China on Saturday. Consumer inflation in China rose at the fastest pace in nearly two years in August, but its National Bureau of Statistics showed the Asian superpower remained robust that month, suggesting its economy was not slowing as fast as many ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... consecutive month the consumer price index, a key measure of inflation, had risen. Other key data released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed the world's second-largest economy remained robust in August, suggesting the Asian giant was not slowing ...

Just a typical pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... US growth experience following the 1990 and 2001 recessions and the 2007 one -- to which we're still waiting US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee to mark the end. US Real GDP Growth 1990 Recession.....................2001 ...

Grass is greener in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
... still greener in China. While the US remains unsure whether or not it's already out of the woods -- just ask the National Bureau of Economic Research Business Cycle Dating Committee -- China's recent growth stats show it's miles and miles out of the ...

The retaking of Dow 11000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
... government debt or that Greece's problems are not yet over or China is still manipulating its currency or the National Bureau of Economic Research Business Cycle Dating Committee has not yet certified that the recession is over. Heck, Bloomberg even ...

Business cycle dating

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... markets are all a-buzz with this question after the New York Times carried a story about the 8 April meeting by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee - the official arbiter of the peaks and troughs of the US ...

Easter egg hunt

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... from 16.8 per cent. But no! Nien! Nyet! The positive tone on Wall Street even gave Robert Hall - the head of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee - the courage to announce that the recession is likely over. ...

Australians as Asians

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
... Street started the first day of December with a rally. Need I tell you why? In one word - China. The country's National Bureau of Statistics reported that China's Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) remained at an 18-month high of 55.2 in November, indicating ...

Back on the road again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2009
... better-than-expected 3.5 per cent annualised in the third quarter. Note that I didn't say out of recession. The National Bureau of Economic Statistics (NBER) - the people who tells us when US recessions begin and end - told us two months ago that we ...