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Fearless forecasting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAY 2017
... years? Exhibit A: China. It outstripped Japan as the world's second biggest economy in 2010. As at the end of 2016, China's GDP stood at US$11.8 trillion, up from around US$383 billion 20 years ago. Exhibit B: Japan. During the 1980's, Japan was 'extrapolated' ...

Expanding expansion in manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2017
... of manufacturing index may not be a first tier economic indicator but recent history shows that it picked the direction of GDP growth, in particular, the contraction in the third quarter of last year and the subsequent strong rebound in the December ...

100 days of Trump (and counting)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... expectations, better than the 70% one-year average." It's not looking so good for the economy though with the advance estimate of US GDP slowing to an annualised rate of 0.7% in the first quarter from 2.1% in the December 2016 quarter. This is below ...

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... This puts at risk the Bank of Canada's (BOC) optimistic outlook for the economy. Exports account for about 30% of Canada's GDP. In its monetary policy meeting of 12th April, the Canadian central bank stated that, "During the rest of this year and into ...

Sunrise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... Japan's trading partners. The better news is the 15.8% jump in imports. Although this would provide a negative contribution to GDP growth, it also indicates strengthening domestic demand. Similar to the trend in exports, the year-on-year growth in Japanese ...

China's off to a good 2017 start

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
... (surprise, surprise) - with a buffer to boot - as China's economy growth accelerated in the first three months of 2017. Chinese GDP expanded by 6.9% in the year to the March quarter, a step up from the December 2016 quarter's 6.8% growth rate and 6.7% ...

Pension fund embraces managed accounts

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... support older generations. Japan currently has the third biggest pension market in the world, comprising almost 70% of its total GDP. A rolling process for registrations has begun with reviews to take place as of 1 June 2017.

Confidence slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... concerning because retail spending -- a major component of household spending which, in turn, accounts for roughly 60% of GDP -- had been on a trend decline at least over the past two years. The details of the retail sales report showed that consumers ...

RBNZ on ice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... inflation has been low and stable" - and expects "monetary policy to remain stimulatory". In addition, it noted that while GDP was weaker than expected in the December quarter, this is due to temporarily factors and its domestic growth outlook remains ...

One Direction and the BOE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... straight after the Brexit vote on 23 June has, so far, not materialised. On the contrary, the economy even strengthened. UK GDP expanded by 2.0% in the year to the December quarter, equal to the September quarter and stronger than June's 1.7% and March's ...