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PMI surveys say...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
Markit Economics' flash PMI (purchasing managers' index) data dump yesterday gives us the lay of the land for first quarter economy and beyond. While it's tempting to correlate these PMI readings with the effectiveness (or not) of the monetary policy ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... Lucas said. "We've got a 100 per cent chance of getting a rate cut by May, and now a 50 per cent chance by April - which yesterday was at 30 per cent and 82 per cent." All areas of the market opened higher, and Lucas said high yielding stocks such as ...

It might just be a matter of time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
... just didn't look hard enough - but this economic indicator is the more important in my book, it shows what the worry of yesterday - slumping oil prices - and the concern du' jour - the strong US dollar - equates to for America. These equal to slumping ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... January. Mr McCarthy said that data was likely to influence the market at large. "One of the components missing from GDP yesterday was consumption," he said. "It was a contributor to that weak reading, so any signs that retail sales are rebounding will ...

No board meeting necessary

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2015
... back-to-back surprises, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) takes the gong. The RBI announced another unexpected interest rate cut yesterday that followed its unexpected rate cut announcement in January. "The still-weak state of certain sectors of the economy ...

Majority slammed (again), equities dunked, A$ fouled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... and slam!" - Kevin Bacon in the 1994 film "The Air Up There"...and slam is what the majority again got from Gov Glenn yesterday when the RBA "judged that, having eased monetary policy at the previous meeting, it was appropriate to hold interest rates ...

I cut, you cut, I cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2015
... jumping with joy, sending the S&P ASX 200 index is just a spit away from the 6,000 point mark (it closed at 5,958.9 points yesterday). The question is would another interest rate reduction be sufficient to bring back the 'animal spirits' among businesses ...

Tme to get fiscal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... all are turning believers. Businesses are taking them on their word. Australian Bureau of Statistics data (released yesterday) showed actual capital spending - capex - declined by 2.2% in the December quarter overall. They spent 2.6% less on "buildings ...

A little tweet told me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2015
"Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception." -Sophocles Breakfast wasn't nice for me yesterday. Nah, Virginia, it wasn't because the toast was burnt or the bacon and eggs semi-cooked. It's because I was eating my own words with my foot in my ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2015
... sector was relatively flat and insurers were mostly lower after strong gains in recent sessions. "The major lag was yesterday's strength with the financial sector, in the red today with some profits booked after their very solid run," Quay Equities head ...