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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2016
... year and lower than market expectations for a 0.7% increase. The September quarter's growth was driven by increases in private consumption (up 3.5%); business investment (up 1.4%) and public fixed capital formation (up 6.3%). Thailand's GDP grew by 3.2% ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2016
... in domestic demand. While domestic demand added 0.1 percentage points to growth, this was largely due to a 2.3% rise in private residential investment. Household consumption was flat over the quarter and so was public expenditure declined as the 0.4% ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2016
... previous month. Year-on-year, total approvals decreased by 6.4% in September after surging by 10.3% in August. Approvals for "private sector dwellings excluding houses" slumped by 16.3% month-on-month in September. This followed a 4.0% decline in August ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2016
Australia private sector credit Total private sector credit increased by 0.4% in September - in line with market expectations - following similar gains in the previous two months. Credit to housing and to business went up by 0.5% (from up 0.5% in August) ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2016
... economic growth eased slightly to 0.7% in the third quarter from 0.8% in the three months to June as household spending and private investment grew at a slower rate. Market expectations were for a 0.6% quarterly growth rate. Year-on-year, South Korean ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2016
... be seen whether retail spending can continue in the coming months, especially over the coming Yuletide season. US ADP private payrolls The soft lead from the ADP private payrolls would have economists trimming their forecasts for the official US employment ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2016
... in total building approvals quickened to 10.1% in August from 4.2% in July. The 1.6% year-on-year fall in approvals for private sector houses in July accelerated to 6.5% in August. This was more than offset by the stronger gains in approvals for "private ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Australia private sector credit Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) figures showed that the annual growth in private sector credit slowed from 6.0% in July to 5.8% in August - the slowest rate since October 2014. Except for the bumps in December 2015 and ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016
... June quarter, up from zero growth in the initial estimate. Domestic demand contributed 0.4 percentage points to growth - private household consumption and residential investment added 0.1 percentage point each to growth and business investment fell by ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2016
Australia capex The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report on business investment shows actual private new capital expenditure drop by 5.4% in the June quarter following a similar 5.4% decline in the three months to period and worse than market ...