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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... both tumbled 11 per cent. Investors are expected to pay particularly close attention to third-quarter gross domestic product (GDP) data from the world's number two economy, China, on Tuesday. The euro firmed to $US1.2781, compared with $US1.2759 late ...

Are we there yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... prompting fears of a triple dip recession there. But we already know this, right Virginia? From the time the second quarter GDP growth figures were released three months ago we knew. It doesn't take a fourth grader to add 0% GDP growth plus low-flation ...

Time to get shorty?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014

Average September on average

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... thinking of trading sanctions for seizure? The news that did it seems to be the upward revision in US second quarter real GDP growth from strong - 4.2% -- to stronger - 4.6% -- annualised quarterly rate. The US bond market also appears to agree. Yields ...

The ECB can't make the horse drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... bells clanging at the ECB. More so, with Markit's chief economist, Chris Williamson, commenting that, "The survey data suggest GDP is on course to grow by 0.3% at best in the third quarter... There are also worrying signs that growth could slow further ...

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... weaken to below US75Ac - a fall of around 20 per cent - on a combination of the lower interest rate differential and slumping GDP growth, with commodity price effects outweighing volumes." Wait, hold your horses, hang on. The A$ weakening below US$0.75? ...

Thrills, spills and chills

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... meeting. As determined as the G20 which pledged over the weekend "to develop new measures that aim to lift our collective GDP by more than 2 per cent by 2018 above the trajectory implied by policies in place at the time of the St Petersburg Summit in ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... arrows" versus the consumption tax hike (raised to 8% from 5% on 1 April 2014) plays out in the domestic economy. Japan's GDP dropped at annualised rate of 7.1% in the June quarter reversing the 6.0% growth spurt in the previous period. Not to worry ...

Instant replay of the song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... versus 2.50% by end-2016; and, 3.75% by end 2017 (not forecasted in June). These forecasts seem inconsistent with the lowered GDP growth forecasts: 2.6%-3.0% (from 3.0%-3.2%) in 2015; 2.6%-2.9% (from 2.5%-3.0%) in 2016 and 2.3%-2.5% (again not forecasted ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... promise that the kitchen sink would come later - was good enough. With the eurozone economy in a coma - second quarter real GDP growth was zero - and low-flation - annual rate of CPI inflation currently at 0.3% (the slowest since September 2009) -- threatening ...