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It's raining jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... measures up. It was all up for the US labour market in January despite the fourth quarter's slower than expected 2.6% real GDP growth and concerns over reduced investment - including hiring -- in the US energy sector due to the drop in oil prices and ...

Taylor rules the RBA just right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2015
... interest rate, r* is the "natural" real interest rate, pi is the rate of inflation, pi* is the target inflation rate, y is real GDP growth, and y* is the potential output growth. Substituting numbers for the letters: current cash rate is 2.5%; "natural" ...

When Harry met Sally syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... looking to America to import the ills and evils in their respective economies. But with the latest stats showing that US real GDP grew by a lower than expected 2.6% in the fourth quarter against expectations of 3.2% and 5.0% in the third - even before ...

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
... mistaken but I couldn't recall anyone picking up on these back then. Certainly, the 0.3% quarter-on-quarter growth in real GDP - the headline measure - is a big disappointment, more so because of the negative 0.5 percentage point contribution of private ...

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 ...

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
... jobs." Nearly a year on and we have China's economy on the slow lane, the eurozone in a parking lot (latest figures show real GDP barely moved in the third quarter - up 0.2% from the second and 0.8% year-on-year) and Japan's could show that it's in reverse ...