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Why this fundie sees the economy making a hard landing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
... and falling company cashflows are the biggest risks to the downside," Birtles said. He also noted that with 1.5% annual real GDP growth in 2023, Australia experienced its third worst annual reading in 30 years, worse than during the GFC, but ahead of ...

Global economic growth hits 20-year low: IMF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023
... compelling central banks to reconsider their policy paths." The IMF's latest forecast for Australia showed a decline in real GDP growth from 3.7% in 2022 to 1.6% in 2023, before ticking up to 1.7% in 2024. Meanwhile, inflation is projected to decrease ...

US enters recession - or does it?

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2022
... a recession. GDP decreased at an annual rate of 0.9% in Q2, this follows the 1.6% retracement in Q1. "The decrease in real GDP reflected decreases in private inventory investment, residential fixed investment, federal government spending, state and local ...

CPI rises, IMF lowers global outlook

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2022
... before GDP data is released. The Biden Administration said: "While some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitute a recession, that is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the business ...

Australia is coming back: Frydenberg

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... We are better placed than nearly any other country to meet the economic challenges that lie ahead," Frydenberg said. Real GDP is forecast to grow by 5.25% in 2021 and 2.75% in 2022 while nominal GDP is expected to grow 3.75% in FY2020/21, 3.5% in FY2021/22 ...

Chief economist update: China's vote for US president

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020
... "Since it began in earnest just over a year ago, the trade war with China has cost an estimated 0.3 percentage point in US real GDP and almost 300,000 jobs." "The hit to the global economy has been even more substantial, particularly to more open economies ...

Chief economist update: Not out of the woods

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
... previous quarter's 31.4% decline, beating market expectations for a 31.0% gain. As per the BEA: "The increase in real GDP reflected increases in personal consumption expenditures (PCE), private inventory investment, exports, nonresidential fixed ...

Need to recalibrate the fiscal strategy: Frydenberg

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... of the pandemic than forecast in the 2019-20 MYEFO, both in real and nominal terms." Frydenberg said in the near-term, real GDP is forecast to grow strongly, but will come off a lower base. By the end of 2020-21, Frydenberg said Australia's real economy ...

Chief economist update: Worse news is better news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2020
... their 28-29 July FOMC meeting revealed its downgrade to earlier growth predictions. "The projected rate of recovery in real GDP, and the pace of declines in the unemployment rate, over the second half of this year were expected to be somewhat less robust ...

Chief economist update: A tiny bug takes down the largest economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020
... measure has America's economy sinking by a record minus 32.9%. According to the BEA: "The second-quarter decrease in real GDP reflected decreases in consumer spending, exports, inventory investment, business investment, and housing investment that ...
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