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This Week's Market Movers (21-25 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... rise by 0.2 percent following growth of 0.3 percent in the first quarter. The annualized rate is expected to show real GDP growth slowing to 1.6 percent in the June quarter from the previous rise of 2.3 percent.

This Week's Market Movers (14-18 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2008
... domestic economic growth, although slowing like the rest, is still above its long-term trend. Australian annual real GDP growth increased by 3.6 percent in the first quarter of 2008, following a 4.3 percent advance in the previous three month period. ...

Commodities investors nervous about inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
... that economic drivers in emerging markets are coming under pressure as well. India for example, while holding up its GDP growth at around 9 per cent is experiencing their worst inflation, at upwards of 13 per cent, in more than a decade. The IMF projecting ...

India's report card

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2008
... through the Indian economy's fundamentals. The Latest monthly economic report from the Indian Ministry of Finance said GDP growth is dipping during 2007-08 to 8.7 per cent, down from 9.6 per cent last year. Reflecting the drop, industrial production ...

From Slovakia with love

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
... growth in value-added industrial output, primarily from the export-oriented automotive sector would still have expanded GDP growth by around 9.7 per cent. Meanwhile, early signals of cooling export demand were reflected in December's manufacturing output ...

Franklin Templeton launches EM fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... Europe, the Asia Pacific region, Africa to Central and South America," said Mobius. "Many emerging markets have robust GDP growth, trade surpluses, high foreign reserves, low inflation, strong investment and domestic demand - an environment where companies ...

G'day Vietnam

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
... foreign direct investment into the country is expected to reach 8.1 per cent year on year to 2010. The country's 10-year GDP growth outlook is 7.2 per cent compared to Thailand's forecast of 2.9 per cent and Mayalsia's estimation of 4.8 per cent. VECL ...

Iraqi economic growth to hit 7 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
Iraq's economy is on track to reach GDP growth rates in 2008 of 7 per cent, driven by oil price movements, economic reforms and surging foreign exchange reserves, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last week. The upbeat assessment is based on ...

China to lead IPOs again in 2008

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... expected correction notwithstanding the traditional disconnect between an economy's financial and its real output. China's GDP growth after several years of double-digit growth is expected to slow to around 8-10 per cent.

Franklin Templeton eyes Aus REITs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... trimmed our positions in the Japanese and Singapore office space sector, and while these countries have good forward GDP growth, we felt some REITs had already run to far too fast," he said. "Instead we have increased our exposure to Australia, which ...