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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... international demand provided incentives for farmers to slaughter a greater proportion of their herds. Markit flash US manufacturing PMI Markit's preliminary measure of US factory activity showed little improvement with the flash PMI printing at 51.4 ...

Crouching services, contracting manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... readings from China's official manufacturing and non-manufacturing purchasing managers' indices (PMIs). The manufacturing PMI fell deeper into contraction (below 50) from 49.4 in January to 49.0 in February. This is the lowest reading since November ...

Bad news on global activity and prices is the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... become self-fulfilling engendering more positives. A virtuous cycle, if you will. And if Markit Economics' latest manufacturing PMI updates on three of the world's biggest economies are anything to go by, we can surely do with some virtue of positive ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... rise from 5% to 8% in April of the same year) -- from 1.8% in July. and on... Although the Markit/Nikkei Japan manufacturing PMI indicated that the manufacturing sector remained in growth territory, the rate of expansion slowed to 51.0 in September from ...

A$ down but would it stay down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... weakness in the Empire State and Philly Fed surveys - and the loss of momentum in Markit Economics' flash US manufacturing PMI - shows that this study would not surprise the US manufacturing sector, they've been feeling it all along. The bottom line ...

Fed lady sings (the same old song)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
... of 12. Ok, Ok and sure, sure is limited to the Philly district business conditions. But Markit Economics' US manufacturing PMI gives the same indication. "The Markit Flash Manufacturing PMI registered 53.4 in June, down from 54.0 in May and the lowest ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... economy. The negative effect if the US dollar's strength has again become evident in the lower-than-expected US manufacturing PMI data released last night, it slowed from 53.8 last month to 53.4 in June - the lowest reading since October 2013. But that's ...

US data says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... Ghriskey, the chief investment officer at Solaris Asset Management LLC in New York..." The data says... Markit's US Manufacturing PMI came in at a better than expected reading of 54.0 in May but slower than April's 54.1 dragged down by the slowest growth ...

Running on neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... per Markit, job creation is up to four-year highs and prices indices hit their highest in three years. Japan's manufacturing PMI edged up from 49.9 in April to a barely positive 50.9 this month and China's contracted for a third month to 49.1 in May ...

A$ at 80c

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... disappointing US data releases in recent times - weak core durable orders for March and a decline in Markit's US flash manufacturing PMI for April reported last week and last night's drop to a four-month low in April consumer confidence - make this highly ...