Europe should get some additional attention in the coming week with industrial production data for December (12 February) and the flash estimate for fourth...
John Robertson
PortfolioDirect
Europe should get some additional attention in the coming week with industrial production data for December (12 February) and the flash estimate for fourth quarter GDP (14 February) both due. The Euro area GDP estimate is likely to barely exceed zero according to the consensus surveys of economists. This will be taken as better than a negative result but will basically mean that European output remains dormant and below where it had been in the last quarter of 2011. There would need to be an improbable 0.7% gain in the quarter to make up for output losses during 2012 and 2013. Once again, the exporting economies will probably do better than the others but an overall acceleration cannot gain enough power while growth among these comes at the expense of growth in others. The contribution from business investment remains critical for the evolving resources cycle.
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John Robertson is Chief Investment Strategist for PortfolioDirect a provider of resource sector investment stock ratings and portfolio strategies for mining and oil and gas investors. He has worked as a policy economist, corporate business strategist and investment market professional for over 30 years after starting his career as a Commonwealth Treasury economist in Canberra. Since being Australia's top-rated commodities analyst and chief economist at one of Australia' leading stockbroking firms, he has advised companies across the mining, consumer products, IT and biotech sectors on their equity market relations. He leads the firm's investment evaluation and security structuring activities on behalf of the Australian Small Scale Offerings Board (ASSOB), the world's first equity 'crowdfunding' investment platform. John Robertson discusses the interaction of mining and investment markets in his weekly 'From the Capital' column in Mining Journal.
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John Robertson
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John Robertson is Chief Investment Strategist for PortfolioDirect a provider of resource sector investment stock ratings and portfolio strategies for mining and oil and gas investors. He has worked as a policy economist, corporate business...
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John Robertson is Chief Investment Strategist for PortfolioDirect a provider of resource sector investment stock ratings and portfolio strategies for mining and oil and gas investors. He has worked as a policy economist, corporate business...
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