The December
quarter national accounts continued the pattern of previous quarters, showing weak growth in GDP alongside above - trend growth in domestic demand.
The fall in sentiment and the apparent softness in retail sales in March are likely to reflect several factors including the March interest rate increase, the publication of the weak December
quarter national accounts and associated commentary, and the recent steep rise in petrol prices.
The September
quarter national accounts showed a small fall in dwelling investment in the quarter, suggesting that the downturn foreshadowed by leading indicators of housing construction is now under way.
This suggests that the weakness in manufacturing evident in the June
quarter national accounts data may prove temporary.
The third
quarter national accounts results indicated continued weakness.
The fourth
quarter national accounts confirmed a sharp slowdown in the US, and most expectations now are for a period of further weakness in the first half of this year.
Not exact matches
It is the dominant contributor to our favorable trade balance, it is the largest private - sector investor in the
national economy, and it
accounts for about one -
quarter of all tangible
national wealth.
And with the euro now
accounting for some 60 percent of Swiss
National Bank reserves, up from 51 percent at the end of the first
quarter, you can almost certainly expect some serious euro selling efforts.
The latest
national accounts are now a bit dated, but they show a high rate of growth, over the year to the September
quarter, of just over 4 per cent (Graph 10).
In fairness, the best place to see this is in the
national accounts data, which are so far available only through the third
quarter of 2016.
In relation to Australia, the most comprehensive data on the economy — the
national accounts — are only available up to the June
quarter, and so pre-date the recent financial volatility.
Although the
national accounts data have been volatile over recent
quarters, a range of indicators suggest that activity is improving gradually.
The latest
national accounts show that real GDP rose by 0.7 per cent in the March
quarter, to be 2.9 per cent higher than a year earlier (Table 8).
The
national accounts measures of compensation both grew by 0.2 per cent in the March
quarter, but these relatively low outcomes appear to have been affected by the recent changes to the Labour Force Survey.
The
national accounts recorded strong growth in the September
quarter, and the prevailing conditions in the US seem favourable to continued recovery in a number of respects.
National accounts data record a GDP decline of 17 per cent over the first two
quarters of 1998, after a flat performance during the previous year, and imports have continued to fall rapidly.
In contrast, the
national accounts measure of buildings and structures investment fell by a surprisingly large 3.8 per cent in the September
quarter, driven by a large reversal in the previously robust structures component.
The strong growth in spending is evident in the latest
national accounts, which showed an increase in consumption of 1.7 per cent in the September
quarter, to be 4.4 per cent higher over the year.
According to the
national accounts, exports picked up in the September
quarter, while the farm sector has begun to recover from the drought in 2002/03, with farm output rising by 17 per cent in the
quarter.
The impact of the weak world economy and the drought over the first half of 2003 are evident in the latest
national accounts, which show that real GDP rose by 0.1 per cent in the June
quarter and 2.0 per cent over the year (Table 10).
According to the
national accounts, there was a sharp slowing in private spending in the March
quarter, while an unusually large volume of output in the
quarter was absorbed by stockbuilding (Table 1).
The ABS has recently reviewed the interest paid series and published substantial revisions in the September
quarter 2003
national accounts (Graph B1).
National accounts data for the first
quarter recorded a fall in GDP of 1.3 per cent, confirming earlier signals of declining demand and output (Graph 8).
Taking into
account viewing duplication and correcting for the fact that the diaries may underreport by as much as 15 per cent, the study says that the number of people who have watched at least one -
quarter hour of religious television per week is about 13.3 million, or 6.2 per cent of the
national television audience.
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Three sales
accounted for about 40 percent of first
quarter volume at roughly $ 1.6 billion, notes Joshua Jandris, senior managing director of investments for the Institutional Property Advisors» (IPA) Seniors Housing Group and Marcus & Millichap's
National Seniors Housing Group.
Cash sales
accounted for 8 percent of new - home sales in the fourth
quarter of 2017, matching a high that has not been seen since 2014, the
National Association of Home Builders reports on its Eye on Housing blog.