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Desperately seeking workers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
If the latest indications from the Fed's Beige Book are any guide, the US central bank remains on track with its projected two more interest rate hikes this year (after the first rate hike for 2017 announced last month). The latest report also gives ...

WBC rate lift pressures RBA rate cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
... than expected employment and inflation and lately, lower than expected retail sales and negative PPI inflation and the Beige Book reporting only 3 of 12 districts depicting growth as "moderate" with two reporting slowing growth and one contracting - ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... slower growth in the US services sector in May and a solid 201,000 new private-sector jobs in May. The Federal Reserve's Beige Book reported that the US economy returned to modest-to-moderate growth during April and May after stalling in the first quarter ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... 2,074.33, also a record, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index added 18.66 (0.39 per cent) at 4,774.47. The Fed's Beige Book, a collection of anecdotal information on current economic conditions, said that "a number" of the central bank's 12 districts ...

A BRICS R5 Bank is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... better-than-expected company earnings, because of positive economic reports out of the US - industrial production and Beige Book - and China - GDP accelerated to a better-than-expected 7.5% in the June quarter from 7.4% in the first (Li got what Li likes). ...

Knight Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... thank the heavens again for more small mercies) US fundamentals continue to improve. The latest US Federal Reserve Beige Book survey shows that only two (2) -- Cleveland and St. Louis -- out of the 12 Fed districts reported "a decline in economic activity". ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... points at 5,424. March US home construction and industrial production bolstered sentiment while the Federal Reserve's Beige Book on US economic conditions confirmed the central bank's view that recent weakness was largely due to bad winter weather. Data ...

Wonderully dreadful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... don't change.A But they are. The external environment is getting better.A Last night's reports point to this:A The US Beige book reports of modest to moderate expansion in activity in early July to August; and the services PMIs in China, the Eurozone ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... territory but recovered as Wall Street pushed into positive territory ahead of the release of the US Federal Reserve's "Beige Book", which gives a read of US regional economic conditions and could provide clues on whether the central bank is likely to ...

The death of QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... important labour market stat - the ADP private payrolls report - disappointed. This is encapsulated in the latest Fed's Beige Book survey that economic activity expanded at a "modest to moderate" pace. And the indication from that all important Fed trigger ...