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Still the best game in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... A-minus to BBB-plus with a negative outlook. And only yesterday, Reuters reported on the 13.1% plunge in Japanese machinery orders - a leading indicator of capital expenditure -- over the month of January. I'm sure we could find more if we google hard ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2011
... 94.28 points, to 1,813.25. Selling pressure on the Tokyo bourse also increased after official data showed Japan's machinery orders for September fell 8.2 per cent from the previous month, worse than the market's expectation for a 7.1 per cent fall. Oil ...

Better second half

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... Japan's factories are coming back on stream. This is consistent with last week's US reports showing a turnaround in machinery orders, autos and other durable goods and confirm Big Benny's view that the soft patch is temporary. Wall Street hasn't gone ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... close at 3,022.75. Japan's Nikkei fell after figures showed a steeper-than-expected 2.3 per cent fall in core machinery orders in February from January, raising concerns about the severity in coming months of the impact of the earthquake and tsunami. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... while Sydney fell 0.84 per cent, or 40.40 points, to 4,767.80. Tokyo was lifted by news that core private-sector machinery orders, a top indicator of corporate capital spending, rose a stronger-than-expected 4.2 per cent in January from the month before. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... sign that the pace of recovery in capital spending could remain slow and weigh on growth, core private-sector machinery orders fell 5.4 per cent in February, against a median market forecast for a 3.7 per cent rise. Market players said the Nikkei could ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2010
... TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei average ended flat on Wednesday, with gains in machine stocks after better-than-expected machinery orders offset a drop for Toyota Motor Corp after an incident involving a Prius in the US. Japan's core machinery orders fell 3.7 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... Other banks rose in its slipstream, including Societe Generale SA. TOKYO - Tokyo finished flat despite news that machinery orders increased by a forecast-beating 10.5 per cent in September, fuelling optimism about recovery in the world's number two economy. ...

Hermaphrodite economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
... meagre half a percent improvement from the record high posted in July. No ovaries for Japan either. Japanese machinery orders fell by 9.3 per cent in July - the lowest level since the survey started in 1987. Machinery orders are a leading indicator of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... orders dropped less than forecast and Sony Corp surged after projecting a smaller-than-expected annual loss. The machinery orders data also helped Tokyo Electron rise nearly eight per cent, becoming the biggest positive contributor to the Nikkei despite ...