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Why this fundie sees the economy making a hard landing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
... 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 the ...

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 ...

Chief economist update: Don't fight the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... 0.375% and 1.125%) in 2022. This is understandable given the Fed's latest projections: "The Fed expects US real GDP growth to contract by 6.5% in 2020 (instead of the 2.0% expansion forecast in December 2019) before rebounding to 5.0% in 2021 and ...

Chief economist update: The ECB's PEPP economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... The revised Eurosystem staff macroeconomic projections have now been put in black and white. New forecasts show real GDP growth dropped from +1.2% in 2019 to -8.7% in 2020 (downgraded from +0.8 predicted in March 2020) before recovering to +5.2% in 2021 ...

Chief economist update: Changing to Lagarde

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019
... September's forecast of 1.1%), 1.1% in 2020 (from 1.2%), and 1.4% in both 2021 (from 1.4%) and 2022. Eurozone real GDP growth expanded by 1.2% in the year to the September 2019 quarter - the same growth rate as in the June quarter. HICP inflation ...

Super debate too one dimensional: Rice Warner

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2019
... whilst the trend in most other countries is up," Rice Warner noted. "The future experience is conditional on strong real GDP growth of 2.5% p.a. in the long term, which is itself dependent on continued immigration which slows down the impact of population ...

Chief economist update: Dot tales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... the Fed's revised economic projections: Fed Board members and Fed Reserve Bank presidents' median projection for real GDP growth was revised higher to 2.7% this year (from 2.5% predicted in December 2017) and 2.4% next year (from 2.1%) and unchanged ...

Pre-Christmas delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2017
... The US Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) latest estimate of US potential output growth is 1.8%. Then again, US real GDP growth had been running above this rate since the December quarter of last year (and the unemployment rate below the CBO's 4.7% ...

Expecting the expected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
... the European Central Bank (ECB) kept monetary policy settings unchanged. The Eurosystem staff projects annual real GDP growth of 2.4% in 2017, 2.3% in 2018 and 1.9% in 2019. "Compared with the September 2017 ECB staff macroeconomic projections, the outlook ...

Another Budget, another promised surplus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
... (National Rail), Gonski 2.0 and the NDIS. The combination of which, along with other variables of course, will deliver real GDP growth of 2.75% in FY 2017/18 and 3% in the following year and "from 2019 20 until 2023-24, real GDP is projected to grow ...
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