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Jumping at shadows no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... index rose by 0.7 per cent in June for its third consecutive increase. Yeah...so what? So what is that the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) uses the details of the index as gauges to determine the start and end of US recessions. And the ...

No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... improves. You want proof? Here's proof. The table below shows the recession periods in the America as dated by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and the corresponding jobless rates before and after. It shows the unemployment rate continuing ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... to $27.98, and Rio Tinto shares lost $2.70, or 6.32 per cent, to $40.00. In the US on Monday, the panel at the National Bureau of Economic Research confirmed that the economy has been in recession since December 2007. US stocks finished lower, with the ...

Mr. Scrooge's Ghosts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
... US is - or has been - in recession since December 2007. Now what? The Business Cycle Dating Committee of the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) announced that America's economy entered recession one year ago, despite not having reported two ...

Main Street is burning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... the biggest economies in the world - Japan and the Eurozone -- are now officially in recession. And while the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee still has to officially pronounce the US economy in recession, by ...

This too shall pass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2008
... accepted as the technical definition of a recession. But in the US, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - the official arbiter of the US business cycle - 'does not define a recession in terms of two ...

BRICs to surge as G7 slows

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... known to be linked to GDP. They have been compiled using a modified version of the method developed by the US National Bureau of Economic Research using about 5-10 indices for each country and 224 series in total. The good news is the OECD may not be ...
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