TAKE A LOOK-Asia GDP: S.Korea Q2 growth hits 2-yr high
. Kong surprises with mild contraction > Singapore Q2 contraction less than expected > Indonesia growth more than forecast at 6.4 pct > Taiwan cuts forecast a 7th time as Q2 shrinks > Korea Q2 growth slows, another rate cut looms > China Q2 GDP.
global glass onion: week ending Feb 2
Fed waits for job market to perk up (Reuters) - The Federal Reserves ultra-loose monetary policy is a root cause of the currency wars that some see as a looming threat to the world economy, but dont expect the U.S. central bank to signal a shift back to... Ironically, this was the biggest government-driven detraction from growth since Q1 2011, when GDP led to a -1.49% cut in the GDP, same in Q4 when government spending on defense fell the most since 1972.
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With headwinds against the manufacturing sector, the consensus GDP growth estimate in year-on-year terms stands at 2.1 per cent (although some forecasts go as low as 1.6 per cent). Given the. However, economists in favour of no easing were keen to point out that although Singapores Q1 GDP growth is likely to come in weak, they say conditions do not look recessionary. You need that sense.. You might call shale a bust, but Franklin calls it. Panda bonds��.
global glass onion: week ending June 1
GDP Q1 Second Estimate at 2.4%: A Small Downward Revision from 2.5% - The Second Estimate for Q1 GDP came in at 2.4 percent, a slight downward revision from the 2.5 percent Advance Estimate. Both Investing.com and Briefing.com had.. Thats hardly robust growth, but its significantly better than would be expected given that the economy as a whole ��� as measured by GDP ��� has grown only 1.7% over the past year. Thats led some economists to question��.
TAKE A LOOK-Asia GDP: Philippines Q2 GDP tops expectations
. Kong surprises with mild contraction > Singapore Q2 contraction less than expected > Indonesia growth more than forecast at 6.4 pct > Taiwan cuts forecast a 7th time as Q2 shrinks > Korea Q2 growth slows, another rate cut looms > China Q2 GDP.
global glass onion: week ending May 9
We Just Broke 2008���s Record for the Fastest Economic Unraveling -- The final Q1 GDP revision was just released and we saw that GDP has again missed expectations by such a large margin that 2015 is another write off for a 3% growth year... It looks like we are going to have negative GDP for the first quarter, just based on trade, but we expect a robust rebound in the second quarter... Demographic change is creating major headwinds for the US economy.
Robust Singapore Q1 GDP surprises, but headwinds loom
That far exceeded the 1.1 percent expansion in the governments advance estimate released in April, and beat a Reuters poll forecast for 1.8 percent growth. It was the services that really surprised on the upside. I think wholesale and retail was one.
global glass onion: week ending Aug 31
But the Feds ownership of mortgage bonds guaranteed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae) fell to $1.291 trillion from $1.303 trillion a week ago. The Feds.. This has been a surprise during the last few years: unemployment has not driven down wages in a way that led to deflation.. In the latest GDP data, the contribution of PCE came at 1.21 of the 2.52 real GDP, although thats down from 1.54 in Q1.
global glass onion: week ending Apr 4
Ms. Yellens speech was delivered hours after the Commerce Department reported, in its final revision, that the United States economy grew at a rate of 2.2 percent in the fourth quarter of 2014, down from a robust 5 percent pace during the.. Companies Go All-In Before Rate Hike, Issue Record Debt In Q1 - It should come as no surprise that Q1 was a banner quarter for corporate debt issuance as struggling oil producers tapped HY markets to stay afloat, companies��.
global glass onion: week ending June 8
���Federal fiscal policy has been a modest headwind to economic growth so far during the recovery,��� the economists wrote. But due to a more rapid than expected contraction in the budget deficits, due largely to rising tax��.
global glass onion: week ending Apr 18
Q1 GDP Expectations Are Crashing - In just six short months, expectations for US economic growth in Q1 2015 has been slashed by more than half (from trend 3% to a mere 1.4% growth this week)... Goldman Sachs: An Update on Student Loans: A Bigger Headwind but Still Not a Deal Breaker - Some excerpts from interesting analysis by Goldman Sachs economists Alec Phillips and Hui Shan: An Update on Student Loans: A Bigger Headwind but Still Not a��.
global glass onion: week ending July 20
Two more Q2 GDP Downgrades - From Reuters: Morgan Stanley cuts second quarter U.S. GDP forecast to 0.3 percent Morgan Stanley economist Ted Wieseman, but the softness in June nonetheless prompted him to cut Morgan Stanleys Q2. As a reminder, Q1 Real GDP underwent two downward revisions -- from the Advance Estimate of 2.5% to the Second Estimate of 2.4% and the Third Estimate of 1.8%... ���These principles set out clear and robust standards.���.
global glass onion: week ending Apr 25
Nomura Forecast: Q1 GDP at 1.0% -- From economists at Nomura: US Q1 GDP: It will likely show that final sales barely grew, but April data should be better. Adverse weather conditions, West Coast port disruptions, the��.
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Elsewhere, the yields of long-dated government bonds in the US, UK and Eurozone rose sharply as large issuances of sovereign debt looms. For example, the yield of the US ten-year Treasury Note jumped by 28 basis points��.
global glass onion: week ending Aug 2
With the new data, the Feds (downwardly revised) growth expectations for this year remain attainable, but still requires an acceleration of activity that has so far been unattainable:That slow yet steady growth, however, has been sufficient to support gradual... Q2 GDP at 4.0% Soars Above Expectations -- The Advance Estimate for Q2 GDP, to one decimal, came in at 4.0 percent, and the annual revision for Q1 GDP lifted it from -2.9 percent to -2.1 percent.
global glass onion: week ending Aug 3
The below table shows the percentage point spread breakdown from Q1 to Q2 GDP major components... That wasnt a surprise given the ���sequester��� budget cuts, which began to take effect in the second quarter. Inflation stays in check... It still merits its name as the most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s, but the contraction now looks a little shallower than previously thought and the recovery a little more robust. The following chart��.
global glass onion: week ending May 17
For instance, just last Friday Goldman Sachs hiked Q2 GDP to 3.9%. This is on the heels of an awful Q1 that was blamed on everything from weather, deteriorating economic environment or even just a flat out surprise and��.
global glass onion: week ending June 12
For a graphic of Feds balance sheet size, link.reuters.com/buf92k Earlier Thursday, the New York Fed said the U.S. central bank made no loans via its currency swap line in the latest week after the European Central Bank tapped the. According to the Fed, household net worth is now off $11.4 Trillion from the peak in 2007, but up $6.3 trillion from the trough in Q1 2009.. That the Fed will raise rates while unemployment is above normal levels is no surprise at all.
global glass onion: week ending Mar 14
Real-Time Q1 GDP Update : 1.2% - Last week, first Goldman and then JPMorgan cut their GDP forecasts, in the case of the latter by 0.5% to 2.0% from 2.5%. The JPM report cited the Atlanta Fed GDPNow model we first��.