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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2016
... ago: Japan (down 26.1%); China (down 12.1%); US (down 4.5%); Europe (down 1.1%). Taiwan has just come out of recession with GDP growing by 0.5% in the fourth quarter after contracting in the June and September quarters. The continued slump in export ...

Not enough super users: Mercer

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... Guarantee, in the 12 months to September last year, was $72.6 billion. Voluntary contributions were $30.9 billion or 1.9% of GDP," Knox said. "Talking to a couple of fund CEOs at this conference - they're seeing the level of voluntary contributions already ...

No tears for China's disappointing data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2016
... away from fixed investment (and exports) and the need for increased policy accommodation or it risks missing even its lowered GDP growth target if 6.5% - 7.0%. But despite the negative implications, financial markets weren't perturbed (this time) -- ...

Market confidence marches in March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
... world's top economies, including the U.S., Japan, Germany, France and China which together account for over 85 percent of global GDP. It reflects changes in global output, employment, new business, backlogs and prices. (http://www.mypivots.com/dictionary/definition/750/global-composite-pmi) ...

With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... 1.1%. But while the Australian trade figures hogged the headlines - as they should for trade is one of the major components of GDP - the latest Australian Industry Group (AiG) Performance of Services survey indicates that the good tidings for the economy ...

Another standout economic performance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2016
... of Statistics (ABS) released its latest tally on the country's national accounts. Consensus betting was for Australian real GDP to slow by 0.4% in the quarter ended December 2015, taking the year-over-year growth down to 2.5%. Well, the domestic economy ...

Crouching services, contracting manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... by end-December. It cut interest rates five times from 5.60% to 4.35% by the end of the year. While these have helped keep GDP growth (6.9% in 2015) close to last year's 7.0% target, the trend from the factory and services sector PMI surveys suggest ...

A "chilling" moment for the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 FEB 2016
... percent at the height of this month's stock selloff on Feb. 11." While it helped, the upward revision to fourth quarter real GDP growth from an annualised rate of 0.7% to 1.0% wasn't it for it was mainly due to higher stock building. It's last quarter's ...

Consumer (un)confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016
... flatline, no probs for it accounts for only a small portion of the economy. Not so for consumers - they make up nearly 70% of US GDP. And their mood dictates their spending. Happy consumers spend happily, supporting economic growth. Unhappy ones stay ...

Australian pension market still global leader

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... Australia's pension market is also a world leader in relative economic terms as its pension market asset pool stands at 120% of GDP, sitting only slightly behind the US's 121% ratio. The UK's pension market is meanwhile valued at 112% of its GDP, Canada's ...