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Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... a double-dip in America and a hard landing in China that gained currency last year. To be sure, to be sure, US real GDP growth slowed to an annualised rate of 1.3% in the June quarter of 2012, but that's no recession my friends and it certainly isn't ...

It's just plain dumb

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... market - as measured by the All Ordinaries index - lags 'em problem economies. Australians are worried because our real GDP growth slowed to 3.1% in the year to the third quarter from 3.8% in the June quarter and, according to the Australian Business ...

Coming in 2014: Aussie recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2012
... following year was that Australia will go into recession this year (yes, in 2012). Instead, Australia's annual real GDP growth jumped to its fastest pace - 4.5% 2012 - in five years in the first quarter followed by another quarter of strong growth - ...

Spanish austerity and Chinese take-away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... lucky the Spanish news came when it did. It was able to drown the bad news out of America - US second quarter real GDP growth was revised lower to an annualised rate of 1.3% from the previous estimate of 1.7% and durable goods orders (a leading indicator ...

Time to stop the rot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... corresponding 40.6% dive in the country's current account surplus. The downward revision in Japan's second quarter real GDP growth to an annualised rate of 0.7% -- half the 1.4% rate in the original estimate - only hammers in the country's dour situation. ...

The QE question

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
... industrial production and the index of leading economic indicators have shown improvement. And just last night, US real GDP growth was revised higher to an annualised rate of 1.7% in the June quarter from the initial estimate of 1.5%. Not much to write ...

Dull night on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012
... indications show that the festering problems in the region are impacting activity in the two biggest countries - German real GDP growth eased to 0.3% in the June quarter from 0.5%, France showed no growth in both quarters - the latest reading are in ...

It's more fun in the Philippines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... 4.8% appreciation this year. Despite weak US growth, a slowdown in China and troubles in Europe, the Philippines' real GDP growth quickened to just over 6.0% in the year to the first quarter from 4.5% in the previous three-month period. This is because ...

Good one day, no good the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
... or speculators taking their profits ahead of a big decision in Europe. The third revision of first quarter US real GDP growth was released. No, not that it was unchanged at 1.9%. That couldn't be a rationale for last night's dip. The Supreme Court upheld ...

Fed twists again like it did last summer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... time when most economic and survey data releases were beating market expectations months before. But I digress. Real GDP growth next year is now expected to be only around 2.2%-2.8% compared with April's estimate of 2.7%-3.1%. Lowered growth would bring ...