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"Pleasant" but...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released this "lucky country's' economic scorecard for the second quarter. Australian real GDP advanced by 0.5% in the three-months to June and 3.1% over the year. Hate me if you will but I'm with smokin' Joe on ...

FSC calls for new govt agency to grow industry overseas

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... Singapore and 60% in Hong Kong. Modelling by Deloitte Access Economics shows that exports in managed funds could increase GDP by $4.2 billion by 2029-30 if we reached the level of exports equivalent to Hong Kong or Singapore. Elsewhere in its submission ...

The certainty in a sea of uncertainties

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014

Recycling the same old, same old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2014
... their highest level one month short of a year, weekly jobless claims came in higher than expected and second quarter real GDP growth was revised higher to an annual rate of 4.2% from 4.0%. Stats like these should revive speculation that the Fed's "considerable ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... deficit to A¥964 billion (US$9.4 billion) from A¥822 billion in the previous month and would detract from third quarter GDP. But Governor Kuroda remains optimistic, noting that, "The world economy is recovering and increasing its growth, and therefore ...

ASFA asks FSI for clear targets to measure super success

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... have achieved by 2050. Specifically these include limiting Age Pension tax expenditures on superannuation to less than 6% of GDP, reducing the number of retired Australians relying solely or almost exclusively on the Age Pension by half to 20%, achieving ...

Stagflation is real in Brazil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... surprises here, given the significant deterioration in the Brazilian economy in recent years. Annual growth in the country's GDP has slowed from the mid to high digits of 2010 to only 1.9% in the first quarter of 2014. Financial markets expect GDP to ...

China's communist and it works

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... last edging out investment as the economy's main engine. Household consumption has been inching up of late as a proportion of GDP, rising from 34.9% in 2010 to 36.2% last year, according to official data. Some economists think the true share could be ...

Putin pontificates peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... 0.3% in the December quarter of last year. Germany's one quarter away from following Italy into another recession with its GDP contracting by 0.2% in the three months ended June while France had been in a coma since the first quarter - zero percent growth ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... applications for unemployment aid last week climbed 21,000 to a seasonally-adjusted 311,000. German gross domestic product (GDP) contracted by 0.2 per cent in the June quarter prompting speculation the European Central Bank would have to roll out stimulus ...