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Rusting still

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... was growing at double-digit rates, dropped to around US$65 a tonne in the midst of the global financial crisis -- China's GDP growth slowed to 6.2% in the March quarter of 2009 -- with the subsequent rebound to double/high digit growth sparking a concomitant ...

Six point five is PM Li's new like

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... immortal refrain from Simon & Garfunkel's hit song 'El Condor Pasa',"Yes I would, if I only could, I surely would". The latest US GDP growth numbers add to the list of "couldn't". Real GDP grew at annual rate of 1.5% in the third quarter from 3.9% in ...

China should have hardlanded

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... numbers that are better-than-expectations. So it was when the National Statistics Office (NSO) revealed that third quarter GDP expanded by 6.9% -- a miss on the government's 7.0% target and the slowest since the first quarter of 2009 it may be but it ...

China puts another one in the bag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... at the same time taking the scissors to many others, including 0.2pp markdowns each (from its July projections) in Japan's GDP growth forecasts to 0.6% and 1.0% in 2015 and 2016, respectively. A nice seque into China's continued point scoring against ...

Industry buoyed by Trans-Pacific Partnership

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... counterparts in 11 other nations, follows eight years of negotiations. Covering countries in control of 40% of the world's GDP, the agreement will strip thousands of trade tariffs in the region and set common labour, environmental and legal standards ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... economy. They better act soon for just as IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde told French journal 'Les Echos', "World GDP [growth] at 3.3% this year is not realistic anymore... A forecast of 3.8% for next year is not either. At issue is slowing growth ...

The case for super investing in agriculture

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... Beauchamp said via a LinkedIn post this week that the Australian agriculture industry represents about 12% of the country's GDP. She said in recent discussions with Prime Super a few core areas came to light - return on investment, risk profile and diversification. ...

Bad news day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... 2013. The US Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) later estimated that the shutdown took around 0.3% off US fourth quarter real GDP. And that's just the direct impact. And that's when the Fed was still pumping US$85 billion per month into its economy, China ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Noi, noi, noi!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2015
... many this may feel like a recession, even if the technical definition of recession (two consecutive quarters of declining GDP) is not met." (The Conversation). "Australia will be the worst-hit advanced economy from slowing Chinese investment growth ...

Expect slow "boil" Fed hikes: Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... in 1994 the Fed increased the cash rate from 3% to 6% through seven hikes over the course of 18 months. During that time, GDP growth accelerated and the Fed was forced to increase the size of its hikes from 25 basis points initially to 75 basis points. ...