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Australia's confidence recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... land. It dropped by two consecutive quarters - minus 0.3% in June and minus 0.4% in September. If this is the case, my Factset database shows that Australia has had several (income) recessions already -- Q3-Q4 2012; Q4 2011-Q1 2012; Q4 2008-Q2 2009 ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... effects of the consumption tax hike wanes) is at odds with the persistent decline in real wages in the economy. According to Factset data, Japanese real wages have fallen by 3.2% in the year to June that followed an even sharper 3.8% drop in the previous ...

All about the slack

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... since April". Strong and strengthening, the economy may be but the tepid growth in wages suggests there's still slack. My Factset screen shows that UK unit wage costs increased by only 0.6% in the year to the March quarter, marginally up from the 0.4% ...

Bubbling bubble?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... just 13 of those have occurred after January 1, 2000." Could it be? Could it be that recent "bubble talks" are true? My Factset chart shows that the Nasdaq peaked in early March 2000 followed by the S&P 500 index a couple of weeks later. It wasn't until ...

You go NZ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... broad-based. GDP is estimated to have grown by 3.3 percent in the year to March." How much momentum? A few clicks on my Factset screen showed me that NZ's real GDP growth accelerated to 3.1% in the year to the September quarter last year (the latest ...

Subjected to interpretation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2014
... to be precise, as I refer to the stock market action on Wall Street and in Europe and in emerging markets. It's like my Factset screen's celebrating St. Patrick's Day today. It's filled with and flashing that trademark Irish colour and the colour of ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... January, the Commerce Department reported. Economists had forecast a rise of just 0.2 per cent, according to data provider FactSet. The solid increase in retail sales is encouraging for the economy because it shows that Americans kept spending despite ...

Pricing of unlisted assets call for new model: Northfield

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... analytical tools to institutional investors and asset managers, was at an investment briefing in Sydney yesterday hosted by FACTSET. The group's executive Nick Wade demonstrated their integrated model approach and said that it analyses the risk of "unusual" ...

May day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... looking for EPS of US$0.57 on US$9.11 billion revenue. Yes, I said there's nothing there because overall - and according to FactSet - of the 86 companies that have reported Q2 earnings to date, 79 per cent beat estimates. And I bet no one told you that ...

London exchange signs deal with FactSet

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
The London Stock Exchange has commenced a joint venture with tech firm FactSet Research Systems. The deal will see the exchange deliver FactSet's reference data via UnaVista, a web-based platform that provides validation, matching and reconciliation ...