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The Grinch is stealing Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2014
... the weakest pace of expansion since July of last year. The survey data suggest the region is on course to see a mere 0.1% GDP growth in the final quarter of the year, with a strong likelihood of the near-stagnation turning to renewed contraction in the ...

Global shares tipped amid slow local growth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... September quarter was just 0.3%, less than half the expected figure. Meanwhile, real gross domestic income - which adjusts GDP for the reduced national purchasing power flowing from the falling terms of trade - was negative for the second quarter in ...

ECB came bearing no pre-Xmas cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
... necessary yet. Better yet, not necessary yet? Despite all the stimulative measures so far, the ECB staff now predicts real GDP growth of 0.8% in 2014, 1.0% in 2015 and 1.5% in 2016. "Compared with the September 2014 ECB staff macroeconomic projections ...

Australia's confidence recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... desperately have been pining for... for so long. Never mind that we have to deflect our focus from the usual seasonally adjusted "GDP (Chain volume measure)" to the seasonally adjusted "Real Gross Domestic Income, chain volume measure" in order to support ...

The recession we're wishing to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... statistician will today release its estimate on how the economy did in the third quarter. Consensus expectations are for real GDP growth of 0.7% in the quarter and 3.1% over the year. We should be shouting and singing glory, glory hallelujah and dancing ...

Big yawn on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2014
... economies, but for a big mature developed economy like the US, it's gangbusters. More so, if you look at the details of the GDP report. The revisions showed added contribution from household consumption - 1.51 percentage points - than initially estimated ...

Minute slip on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... prepared its forecast for the September FOMC meeting was close to expectations, and therefore, the staff's projection for real GDP growth over the remainder of the year was little revised. However, in response to a further rise in the foreign exchange ...

One swallow says it's springtime for Germany

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... them all, finishing 1.6% on the up and up overnight. Not only were markets heartened by its slim escape from recession - real GDP grew by 0.1% in the third quarter reversing the 0.1% contraction in the second - but fresher data "indicated" it's on the ...

Japan did it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2014
... presses - still could not put Humpty back together again. For again, Japan is officially back in technical recession - real GDP contracted by 0.4% in the third quarter that followed a 1.9% fall in the second - it's fourth in six years. Given this latest ...

G20, FTA and Vlad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... have I heard that before? Oh yeah, 'twas in Washington in their communiquA(C) dated 11 April 2014 - "to lift our collective GDP by more than 2 per cent above the trajectory implied by current policies over the coming 5 years". Oh yeah (again), 'twas ...