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US enters recession - or does it?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2022
... negative growth are considered a recession, this isn't a technical definition. Instead, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) committee has the power to determine when the US economy officially enters a recession. The NBER defines a recession ...

Pella Funds Management adds to advisory board

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2021
... the e61 Institute, an editor of the Journal of Political Economy, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, research fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and economic consultant at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. Woods ...

Why women struggle in financial advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... ultimately needed to foster the recruitment and retention of women. A 2012 study from the US National Bureau of Economic Research titled The market for financial advice: An audit study found a stark difference in the financial advice offered to men and ...

Chief economist update: US recession on the cards

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2019
... a US recession is nigh that would take the global economy with it. Is it? Will it? The US National Bureau of Economic Research timed the last US recession to have started in the December quarter of 2007 - the ISM manufacturing index reading in December ...

Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... points that very day - which turned out to be the GFC episode bottom and months later, the National Bureau of Economic Research declared the US recession finished in the June quarter of 2009. There's plenty more of Roubini's failed forecasts as enumerated ...

Coin toss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... markets' gloomy mood to back up their beliefs. But - again - the indicators watched by the National Bureau of Economic Research (the guys responsible for dating US recessions) still don't show a recession is looming. Let's have a look. US real retail ...

Willing America into a dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... perhaps a European one. I must admit that despite checking up on the indicators that the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee tracks to date US recessions over the weekend and finding that there's no cause for ...

S.O.S

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... Harvard University economics professor Martin Feldstein, one of the members of committee at the National Bureau of Economic Research, said he sees a 50 percent chance that the U.S. will relapse into another recession" (Bloomberg). Wall Street erased ...

Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... back to the US recessions of 1990/91 and 2001. Counted 18 months (1.5 year) from when the US National Bureau of Economic Research declared the recession kaput. And guess what? After 18 months, US employment grew by only 0.56 per cent (year-on-year) in ...

QE2 or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... first monthly decline since June 2009. Remember that month? That was when - according to the National Bureau of Economic Research Business Cycle Dating Committee - the US recession ended. Well guess what? The fresh data on industrial output suggest - ...
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