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Bubbling bubble?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... fresh data out of the US overnight but they provided nada direction for Wall Street. The third estimate of US real GDP growth was revised higher from an annual rate of 2.4% previously to 2.6% but this was less than expectations for an upgrade to 2.7% ...

You go NZ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... by 3.3 percent in the year to March." How much momentum? A few clicks on my Factset screen showed me that NZ's real GDP growth accelerated to 3.1% in the year to the September quarter last year (the latest available) from 2.3% in the same quarter of ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... first and second quarters of last year, respectively. All good until...... it ran out of puff. The annualised real GDP growth rate slowed to 1.1% in the third quarter and yesterday, we found that it crawled even more to 1.0% in the last quarter of 2013 ...

It must have been love

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2014
... explaining away the negatives. There surely wouldn't be any difficulty explaining investors' love for Europe. Eurozone real GDP growth accelerated to 0.3% in the first quarter from 0.1% in the December quarter, taking the annual growth rate up to 0.5% ...

OMTs - one year on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... improvement in the region's economy. This is no better highlighted than in the Eurozone's National Accounts that showed real GDP growth expanded by 0.3% in the second quarter - the first expansion in the economy after one and half years of contraction.A ...

30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... growth despite offshore volatility and domestic uncertainty - tomorrow's National Accounts is expected to show real GDP growth of 0.6% in the second quarter (2.5% year-on-year) - what more with the reduction/elimination of these. But boo hoo hoo.A I ...

Growth and QE - will this time be different?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... all systems go! There's only one conclusion that can be concluded from the upward revision in second quarter US real GDP growth - up at annualised rate of 2.5% from the prelim 1.7% estimate - and Wall Street's positive reaction to that... Need I spell ...

Once more from the top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... the near future". And from the one that started it all. Commenting on the downward revision in US first quarter real GDP growth to an annualised rate of 1.8% (from 2.4% previously), Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond president Jeffrey Lacker said that ...

Out of sight, out of mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... connection. That is disappointing economic data equals no Fed taper. Hip, hip. The equation. Disappointing US stats - Q1 real GDP growth revised lower to 2.4% from 2.5% (initial estimate) ; jobless claims increased by 10K last week; pending home sales ...

The happening

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
... that PIMCO's co-chief investment officer, Bill Gross, now believes the economy is "moving towards a 3 percent real GDP growth rate" this year - up sharply from the 1.25% - 1.75% growth for 2013 his bond firm predicted at the end of last year. It says ...