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BRIC slows on Europe woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... largest export - prices have prompted the government to predict an expansion of not more than 4.0% in 2012. India's real GDP growth has more than halved to 5.6% in the first three months of 2012 from 12.6% in the same quarter of 2010. Similarly, China's ...

The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... advanced. (In the US, an inverted yield curve had "always" been followed by a recession). Average annual Australian real GDP growth slowed to 2.6% in 2001 from 3.2% in the previous year. It eased from 4.7% in 2007 to 2.5% in 2008 and then to 1.4% in ...

Boring same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012
... indicators suggesting that the US economy is gaining momentum, the OECD would be remiss if it hadn't done so. US real GDP growth confirms this - unrevised at an annualised rate of 3.0% in the fourth quarter with consumer spending also unchanged at a ...

No please explain needed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
... fundamentals have been doing nothing but strengthening. We got more of them last night. US fourth quarter 2011 real GDP growth was revised higher to an annualised rate of 3% -- the fastest pace in six quarters -- from the initial estimate of 2.8%. Then ...

Forecasts shmorecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... 4.9 percent in 2007." Hmmm...global growth will slow just a few notches in 2008, eh? Actual fourth quarter 2008 real GDP growth was clocked at 2.8%. The IMF's forecast was clouded by the boom of previous years so much so that even six months later, on ...

Half-filled empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... after the strong third quarter surge. In the UK, the British government slashed its economic growth forecasts. Real GDP growth is now expected at 0.9% this year (nearly half of the earlier prediction of 1.7%) and 0.7% next year (down from the 2.5% predicted ...

Weekend worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
... increase in exports offsetting a 0.3% gain in imports - suggesting an upward revision to the initial estimate of real GDP growth of 2.5%. There's good news on its fiscal accounts too, with the budget deficit declining to US$98.5 bil in October from the ...

Party in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... it? Caterpillar. This, along with other good US eco stats reported earlier, makes it hardly surprising that US real GDP growth is being revised up. It's now expected to expand at a 2.5% annual rate in the third quarter. Two point five percent growth ...

Coin toss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... don't have to complete the NBER recession indicator set is monthly GDP. But the quarter-on-quarter result showed real GDP growth had improved to 0.3% in the June quarter (though we may get a lower reading when the second estimate is released tomorrow) ...

S.O.S

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... as it added to yesterday's disappointing ISM manufacturing index numbers and last week's poor US second quarter real GDP growth result. One thing I could say, it really feels like August 2010 all over again. And we all know what happened back then - ...

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