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Mocking Maastricht

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... for pledges and promises of fiscal repair, repair there was not. Trading Economics data show that Greek government debt to GDP continues to rise - from 146% in 2010 to 177% last year. Debt levels of this magnitude certainly make a mockery of one of the ...

US data says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... average PMIA(R) for January through May (52.4 percent) corresponds to a 2.9 percent increase in real gross domestic product (GDP) on an annualized basis. In addition, if the PMIA(R) for May (52.8 percent) is annualized, it corresponds to a 3 percent ...

Trillion dollar super industry attractive to organised criminals

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... equivalent to about 120% of the Australian share market capitalisation and 90% of Australia's annual gross domestic product (GDP). It said superannuation will also accumulate about $7 trillion (130% of GDP) over the next 25 years - making it "a source ...

Winter of our discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... pretty sure it's now getting some attention. The OECD's provisional estimate shows that the combined industrialised countries' GDP - 34 members - slowed to 0.3% in the first quarter of this year from 0.5% in the final three months of 2014. This was driven ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... per cent) at 5,070.03. Analysts said there was some disappointment with the economic news released on Friday. The revised GDP figure for the first quarter, showing a 0.7 per cent contraction, was not a surprise. But perceptions of a rebound in growth ...

Shadow Treasurer will go to election over super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... unsustainable. We can't afford it as a nation," Bowen said. Bowen said superannuation assets are projected to reach more than 160% of GDP, up from more than 120% currently. He added the earnings concession on superannuation is the fastest growing tax ...

You can forget June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... "double seasonal adjustment" by the San Fran Fed I ranted about two days ago to turn the reported 0.2% annualised March quarter GDP growth into 1.8? It wasn't mentioned on the April FOMC Statement, but the minutes revealed that members discussed the ...

Lies, stats and damned double seasonal adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... Chair Janet Yellen was president of from 2004 to 2010 - just did. The San Fran Fed solved "The Puzzle of Weak First-Quarter GDP Growth"! "The official estimate of real GDP growth for the first three months of 2015 was shockingly weak. However, such estimates ...

Good Budget, bad Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... know what happened to ex-Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan's guessed and "promised" A$1.5 billion underlying cash balance (0.1% of GDP) surplus for 2012/13. It amazingly turned into an A$19.4 billion deficit (1.3% of GDP). Lest I be accused of favouring one ...

RBA cuts as expected, A$ does the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... far, methinks even the Fed is uncertain on the precise timing of a lift-off. The lower-than-expected 0.2% annualised real GDP growth in the first quarter certainly argues against a sooner-rather-than-later lift off. More so because the US GDP report ...