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Drinking is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... to stop and a compromise reached before it can be implemented. The sharp 3.3 per cent contraction in Japanese real GDP growth in the fourth quarter of last year prompted the government to propose another 20 trillion yen in additional spending for the ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... International Monetary Fund's (IMF) downward revision to global growth and the first estimate of US fourth quarter real GDP growth in the final week of last month provided a comprehensive picture of the glum outlook for the remaining 11 moons of 2009. ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... countries, the IMF foresees that the economy of the United Kingdom would suffer the worst contraction. It expects UK real GDP growth of minus 2.8 per cent in 2009 - revised from negative 1.3 per cent predicted only a month prior -- before rising to a ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... economies of our major export partners, Japan, China and South Korea." This followed news on Thursday that China's GDP growth had slowed, as expected. "It's not a healthy picture," Mr Potter said. "Concerns about slowing demand for materials is being ...

Shariah-compliant hedge funds hit the spot

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... in the GCC region from market disturbances." Gentilini added that while Dubai and Saudi Arabia have adjusted their GDP growth estimates following the global financial crisis, both states still project a robust non-oil GDP growth this year. But even with ...

Dragon still on the rise

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
... follow that clue, then you know where to invest," said Wang. China may seem like an investment haven with its predicted GDP growth and the $94 billion recently pumped by the government to stimulate the economy. But there are drawbacks - Chinese companies ...

All together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... implement might be too late. Is this a case of 'Nero fiddled while Rome burns?' Japan is reporting its third quarter real GDP growth figures today - more likely than not, this will officially add the country to the list of economies that have contracted. ...

Rainy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
... jittery. More pain is to come. In its Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO), the Federal Government cut its GDP growth forecast to 2.0 per cent, from a previous forecast of 2.75 per cent for fiscal year 2008/2009. The government now also expects ...

It's the war, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
... fed funds rate. But Wall Street climbed again last night following the release of the 'better'-than-expected US real GDP growth. How anyone could put 'better' and economic contraction in one sentence would have the crew of the UFO's flying above our ...

This too shall pass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... applied to determining a recession. The operative word here is 'rule of thumb.' Two consecutive quarters of minus real GDP growth has been commonly accepted as the technical definition of a recession. But in the US, the Business Cycle Dating Committee ...