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ADB pours $240m to worst hit nations

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2009
... revenue. In Armenia, real gross domestic product (GDP) is forecast to contract by 9.5 per cent in 2009. Tajikistan's real GDP growth for 2009 is expected to be zero, down from 8 per cent in 2008. In Georgia, a loss of investor confidence and a slump ...

Higher...higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... more than the first quarter's 1.0 per cent increase and would provide a positive contribution to second quarter real GDP growth. So where do we go from here? We go upwards and onwards.

Christmas in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... from -2.4 per cent in the first. And more recently, the US Commerce Department reported that US second quarter real GDP growth contracted at an annualised rate of 1 per cent - a more than substantial improvement from the 6.4 per cent retreat experienced ...

The times they are a'changin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... for it indicates that net exports would provide a positive contribution to - at the very least - second quarter real GDP growth. The improvement in the US trade balance and the jump in exports could also be reflective of rebounding activity elsewhere ...

Instreet targets Asian equities

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... the Standard & Poor's Asia 50 Index. "This will allow investors to take advantage of projected higher earnings and GDP growth in the region when compared with Australia or other major global markets," he said. "Our long term view is investors should ...

Lies, damned lies and statistics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... March from A$1.75 billion in the previous month. Yes...a surplus. And yes, this too would contribute to first quarter GDP growth numbers. In the end, statistics is based on samples and are therefore subject to sampling errors. It is possible that the ...

Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
... de-stocking at a faster rate in the first quarter than the one before. This will be a negative for first quarter US real GDP growth. But we knew and expected all along that the first three months of 2009. So what gives? What gives is that the faster ...

J.P. Morgan backs Chinese stocks

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... to escape the fallout from the financial turmoil and global recession, we are still looking at around seven per cent GDP growth for 2008, working on the assumption the policy stimulus will work," said Emerson Yip, JF Hong Kong Fund investment manager. ...

Forecasting foibles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... 4.9 percent in 2007.' Hmmm...global growth will slow just a few notches in 2008, eh? Actual fourth quarter 2008 real GDP growth figures show many, if not most, economies severely in recession. The IMF's forecast was clouded by the boom of previous years. ...

Thank you RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... in business inventories. Yes this will affect the National Accounts and would certainly detract from fourth quarter GDP growth - some say by around 1 percentage point - which immediately led many to conclude R has touched down. But what about the estimated ...