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Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... There is America. Recent economic indicators have been disappointing - most notably, the June drop in the ISM manufacturing index - one of the most reliable leading indicators of the US economy - into contraction territory and the disappointing jobs ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... 16.18 (0.55 per cent) to 2,951.23. Stocks nose-dived after the Institute for Supply Management said its June manufacturing index fell to 49.7 per cent, from May's number of 53.5 per cent. That was the first time the index has fallen below the 50 per ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... stocks." Weaker materials stocks also dragged the market lower ahead of the release of China's Purchasing Manufacturing Index (PMI) data at 1100 AEST and the private PMI reading at 1230 AEST. "If both of those numbers come in above 50 I'd expect that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... points at 4,062. In economic news on Friday, The Australian Industry Group/Pricewaterhouse performance of manufacturing index for May is due out, as is the TD Securities/Melbourne Institute inflation gauge for May. Meanwhile, the Reserve Bank of Australia ...

Show me the stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... China and the latest PMI survey confirmed that it is indeed slowing. HSBC's preliminary measure showed the manufacturing index there fell to 48.7 in May from a final reading of 49.3 in April. That's all good too because the government and the People's ...

That anxious wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... Investors are ignoring recent US reports that are again surprising on the upside. There's the Empire State manufacturing index that in March rose to its highest level since June 2011. There's April industrial production growing at its fastest since December ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... thinking it would point to last night's worse-than-expected drop in the Institute for Supply Management non-manufacturing index. The index dropped to 53.5% in April. Although it indicates that America's service sector continued to expand last month ...

Stay or stay away this May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... 1st of May gain was prompted by a better than expected update of the Institute of Supply Management's (ISM) manufacturing index - it rose to 54.8 in April from 53.4 in the previous month when most are expecting a decline to 53.3 - and of course some ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... gained 4.08 (0.13 per cent) to 3,050.44. The market got its charge from the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index, which registered a solid jump for April, rising to 54.8 per cent from 53.4 per cent in March. Analysts had expected a fall. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... 3,046.36. In local economic news on Tuesday, the Australian Industry Group/Pricewaterhouse performance of manufacturing index (PMI) showed that activity contracted noticeably in April after a small dip in March. The index fell 5.6 index points to 43.9. ...