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The recession we're wishing to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... statistician will today release its estimate on how the economy did in the third quarter. Consensus expectations are for real GDP growth of 0.7% in the quarter and 3.1% over the year. We should be shouting and singing glory, glory hallelujah and dancing ...

Minute slip on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... its forecast for the September FOMC meeting was close to expectations, and therefore, the staff's projection for real GDP growth over the remainder of the year was little revised. However, in response to a further rise in the foreign exchange value of ...

Real stagflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014
... Perhaps they cheated and have had a little peep at the data, but last night's advance estimate of US third quarter real GDP growth confirmed the Fed's positive outlook on the economy and gave meat to its decision to end its quantitative easing programme. ...

Average September on average

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... thinking of trading sanctions for seizure? The news that did it seems to be the upward revision in US second quarter real GDP growth from strong - 4.2% -- to stronger - 4.6% -- annualised quarterly rate. The US bond market also appears to agree. Yields ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... that the kitchen sink would come later - was good enough. With the eurozone economy in a coma - second quarter real GDP growth was zero - and low-flation - annual rate of CPI inflation currently at 0.3% (the slowest since September 2009) -- threatening ...

Recycling the same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... highest level one month short of a year, weekly jobless claims came in higher than expected and second quarter real GDP growth was revised higher to an annual rate of 4.2% from 4.0%. Stats like these should revive speculation that the Fed's "considerable ...

But they said it was Iraq

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... decent gains particularly given worse than expected updates on the US economy released overnight. First quarter US real GDP growth was revised to show a 2.9% annualised rate of contraction - from the second estimate's minus 1.0% and the first's minus ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... have been too easy for the Fed to justify its steady taper as she goes despite the National Accounts showing that real GDP growth slowed to a snail dragging a very heavy object pace - 0.1% -- in the first quarter from 2.6% in the previous one, the weather ...

ECB to stay in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... Recent indicators suggest that the transmission mechanism might be beginning to transmit. For instance, Spanish real GDP growth accelerated to 0.4% in the March quarter - the fastest pace in 6 years -- from 0.2% in the previous three-month period. As ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... generally believe that a significant part of the recent softness was weather related." Indeed! US first quarter real GDP growth stalled in the first quarter, up by an itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie 0.1% in the first quarter - and this folks, is an annualised ...