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Happy sentiment holding up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2017
... area started the New Year where they left off - buoyant. The European Commission reports that economic sentiment in the Eurozone rose to a near sic-year high to 108.2 in January from 107.8 in the previous month. This is better than expectations for a ...

One week delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
... US dollar - weaker non-US dollar currencies - is, in turn, indirectly supporting growth outside America, Japan and the Eurozone in particular. Growth in the bigger world economies is a welcome boost for Australia's export sector and the economy. Just ...

No wolf here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017
... expected 2.1% increase. For all the cries of wolf, the UK's latest economic scorecard puts it in front of the US, Japan, the Eurozone and Australia.

Shine, shine, shine, let it shine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2017
Shine, shine, shine, let it shine Thank you strong US dollar. Just as the latest PMI updates for the US and the Eurozone, Japan's manufacturing sector started the New Year with a smile. The Nikkei Japan flash manufacturing PMI increased to 52.8 in January ...

A minor slip but still going stronger

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2017
... currency area. Although down slightly to a preliminary estimate of 54.3 in January (from 54.4 in December), the Markit flash Eurozone composite output index is the second highest reading since December 2015 "and one of the highest readings seen over ...

Brexit where?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
... November with the employment rate holding at a record high 74.5%. This compares with the 9.8% (November) jobless rate in the Eurozone. The lead from the claimant count unemployment - down 10,100 in December - suggests continued labour market strength. ...

Rising exports drive wider surplus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017
Things continue to look up in the Eurozone. Eurostat reported that the region's trade surplus widened to €25.9 billion in November from €20.2 billion in the previous month and €22.9 billion in November 2015. This was better than market expectations ...

Last chance to attend Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
... credit, and further fiscal stimulus will support the economy even if growth edges below the 6.5% target. Baur said solid Eurozone business surveys suggest the mild recovery in the currency union will persist and growth should remain in the 1.5% to 2% ...

Slack Eurozone labour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
The Eurozone's unemployment rate remained unchanged at 9.8% in November from October. This is in line with market expectations, the lowest in seven years (September 2009) and an improvement from the 10.5% rate recorded in the same month a year earlier. ...

Investors must look further than US: J.P. Morgan

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
... to pay close attention to "parts of the market that are relatively cheap", in particular emerging market equities, and Eurozone equities. One of the biggest unknowns for investors' in 2017 is how the US economy will shape up under the direction of the ...