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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
The Australian share market fell almost 1.5 per cent by noon after the release of softer than expected manufacturing figures from China. It came after US stocks plunged on Monday amid renewed worries about the eurozone debt crisis, which claimed its ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... had been canceled. Assets that tend to hold their value in a weak economy, like US government debt and gold, rose. Manufacturing conglomerate 3M cut its 2011 earnings forecast, and US Steel warned that demand for its products could slow. Netflix Inc ...

Party in the making

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... this month - the lowest since July 2009 -- from 49.1 in September, with the contraction in both the services and manufacturing sectors accelerating. And if you think this is just happening in the problem periphery - you're wrong - the core looks to be ...

Market Report- Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... sales and an order backlog at an all-time high. Adding to the upbeat Wall Street sentiment was an HSBC report on manufacturing activity in China, showing it hit a five-month high in October in the world's second-largest economy. Bond prices fell. The ...

Industry panel turns up FOFA heat

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
... duty enshrined. The drafting is extremely prescriptive. "Why is the focus on advice? What is going on with product manufacturing?" challenged Kalantzis. "But products can only be bought through advice," said Ripoll. "I can understand why you think opt-in ...

Somethin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
... While industrial production rose in line with expectations -- up 0.2% in September - the strong 0.4% increase in manufacturing production and the even stronger 0.9% jump in consumer durables in the month point to a better second half for the US economy. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... regional economic index of the Philadelphia branch of the Federal Reserve, showing better than expected activity in manufacturing, the best in three months. Existing-home sales fell 3.0 per cent in September, in line with forecasts. After the market ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011
... figures, highlighting falling demand in the United States and Europe, will likely stoke fears over China's vast manufacturing sector, which employs millions of workers and has been contracting for several months. The Australian dollar got a boost after ...

Indonesia to defy world growth forecasts

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... 9.3%, India will slow from 8.2% to 7.9% and South Korea will slow from 4.6% to 4.3% as austerity conditions contract manufacturing demand in consumer countries through developed western nations. The ADB China downgrade parallels Citi's forecaster's analysis. ...

HSBC: Australia's trade growth to expand 129% by 2025

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... trade growth forecast is 73%. China's share of world trade will reach 13% by 2025, driven by commodities trading and manufacturing. HSBC said China will remain Australia's largest trade partner, totalling some US$148 billion of trade between the two ...