Archive for the ‘GDP’ Category

Canada due for “boring is beautiful” budget

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

This year’s budget is not expected to be overly exciting and that seems to be a good thing for the current economic state. With all the major changes to the market, including changes to the Mortgage rules, being released ahead of time; or as this article states, “Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and his officials have spent weeks diligently stealing their own thunder”; the resulting budget should surprise few of us.

The expected result is that Canada will fare far better than all other G7 nations, forecasting the lowest GDP deficit.

Link below for more details:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2611003320100301?type=usDollarRpt

Japan Slips into Recession

Monday, November 17th, 2008

New numbers released by the Japanese government indicate the country has entered a recession.

Japan’s economy, the second largest in the world, contracted by 0.1 percent in the third quarter, after shrinking 0.9 percent in the second quarter of the year.

Japan has estimated that its Gross domestic product (GDP) contracted at an annualised rate of 0.4 percent.

The Bank of Japan has also cut its key interest rate for the first time in more than seven years, lowering it to 0.3 per cent, joining central banks around the world in trimming borrowing costs.

Japan joins Germany and Italy on the list of Group of Eight major economies that are officially in recession.

The technical definition of a recession is two or more consecutive quarters of negative economic growth.

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