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Torturing the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... bulls in the equity markets. Dr. Doom is hip again! Business Day quoted Dr.Roubini to justify its headline "Double-dip recession fears as US figures bode ill." According Business Day, the good doctor said, "In the first half of the year, you had all ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... disappointing data, especially last week's worse-than-expected employment report, which stoked growing fears of a double-dip recession. Data earlier on Wednesday also showed a marked slowdown in the Chinese economy, hitting sentiment badly in Asia and ...

Not a jobless double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
... growth because jobs were being created real slow. The US unemployment rate did not peak until 15 months after the 1990/91 recession ended. In 2001, the jobless rate went up and up 19 months after the end of recession. The problem we have now is that ...

Good newer news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
... private job gains "have averaged a modest 37,000, with no evidence of acceleration." Private jobs remain below their pre-recession levels, they say. The rate of job creation remains insufficient to provide significant headway into the more than 8 million ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
... after-tax incomes in June. The savings rate is now about three times the 2.1 per cent average for all of 2007, before the recession began. Factory orders dropped 1.2 per cent in June to a seasonally adjusted $US406.4 billion ($A445.52 billion), the second ...

Which way USA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... to be making! So which is which? Is this a disappointing GDP report signalling that the US economy is headed back to recession? Or one that indicates that the recovery is progressing? Is this not pretty enough?

No double dip recession: Fidelity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... head of Australian equities at Fidelity International, does not expect the world economy to experience a double dip recession but is positioning investment portfolios for lower global growth. Taylor said the chance of a global double dip recession is ...

Usual uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... boom times. History shows that the magnitude of the drops and rebounds and drops and rebounds increases after every US recession. Then it stabilises at a higher level before proceeding higher. This is what we're currently witnessing now. Consumer confidence ...

House call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... house sales, current levels are still just over a third of the roughly 900K units annualised just after the 2001 US recession. New home sales reached levels of more than 1,200,000 units during the housing bubble from 2003 to 2006. Sorry to burst your ...

Stress test stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
... certificate of financial health from the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) over the weekend. They'll survive a recession and a sovereign debt crisis if they occur. Looks like good news all around. The CEBS found only seven banks unworthy ...