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Friday, August 31, 2012

Goldman Sachs revised up Q2 Aussie GDP growth to super-strong +1.0%

Interesting from GS:

Q2 GDP: We revise up our tracking estimate to +1.0% qoq. The key indicator in today’s data was the 1.2% qoq rise in equipment spending, which was slightly ahead of our expectations and together with a larger-than-expected fall in the equipment price deflator, adds around another 10bp of upside to our pre-release GDP tracking estimate of +0.8% qoq. In view of this, and the additional upside risk to that estimate which we flagged following yesterday's Q2 construction report, we have revised our GDP tracking estimate higher to +1.0% qoq.
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