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Another standout economic performance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2016
... subtraction from non-dwelling investment. Government consumption and investment added 0.1 pp and 0.2 pp, respectively with inventories contributing another 0.2 pp (while this could be a negative for coming quarters, the strength in household consumption ...

Bad news on global activity and prices is the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... Markit commenting that, "Every indicator from the flash PMI survey, from output, order books and exports to employment, inventories and prices, is flashing a warning light about the health of the manufacturing economy. Euro zone flash manufacturing PMI ...

Yellen fedspeaks her mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... concerns about the outlook for global growth. These growth concerns, along with strong supply conditions and high inventories, contributed to the recent fall in the prices of oil and other commodities. In turn, low commodity prices could trigger financial ...

Small not feeling beautiful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
... December. What's more, the NFIB noted that, "there was a lot of price cutting late in the year to boost sales and reduce inventories." I'll leave the final word to the NFIB. "The decline in optimism was accounted for by two important Index components ...

US dollar downed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
... dollar index down 1.6% -- and oil prices soared by around 7% (despite the Department of Energy's report that crude oil inventories in the week ended 29 January were at the highest levels on record. Sure there's still the speculation du jour about the ...

Not so durable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
... were also not encouraging: Total shipments of durable goods dropped by 2.2% last month; unfilled orders down by 0.5%; inventories climbed by 0.5% (unwanted inventory build-up). The latest update had prompted revisions in US fourth quarter real GDP growth ...

Road of no return

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... day!...the details tell a different story. Yet the details show that the upgrade was largely due to a bigger build-up in inventories than the first estimate - almost double from US$56.8 billion to US$90.2 billion. This contribution to overall GDP growth ...

Japan does a double double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... contraction is largely due to the weakness in business investment - it subtracted 0.2 percentage point off growth - and inventories (which took off 0.5 percentage point). Weak business investment is particularly concerning as this eventuated amidst a ...

Lead us not into a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... them. The latest National Accounts attests to this. Private investment subtracted 0.1pp to second quarter growth and inventories deducted another 0.2pp. What kept the second quarter economy afloat was government spending - consumption contributed 0.4pp ...

The horse still refuses to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... investment that were partly offset by decelerations in private inventory investment [a positive for the future because inventories will have to be replenish], in federal government spending [also good for the federal budget], and in residential fixed ...