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Second best month of the year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... seven months. These positive readings are consistent with latest data showing increased American consumer spending. US retail sales rose by 1.1% in September - the fastest pace in seven months - and they're forecast to show another increase when October ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... growth in the third quarter and a possible credit crunch. Wall Street advanced on strong corporate earnings and news that US retail sales surged at their strongest pace in seven months in September, at 1.1 per cent, a much bigger advance than the 0.6 ...

Waiting and hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... to divine how treacherous the economic waters have become. Just look at the stats released out of America last week. US retail sales came in flat and below market expectations in August after a 0.3% rise in the previous month. You'll tighten your purse ...

QE3 - yes, no, maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... direction but still above the 400K that is regarded as the magic number that would reduce unemployment. Point for QE3. US retail sales inched up by 0.1% in June - better than expectations for a 0.1% fall. Point for no QE3. Retail sales excluding autos ...

Boing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
Boing! That's the sound heard all over Wall Street overnight - the sound of rebounding US eco stats, that is. The Street jumped high and pushed the S&P 500 up by 1.1% to its highest close since the 10th of May and 10 points shy of the three-year summit ...

Making the data fit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... package may be delayed until next month. Talk of kicking the can down the road! No (guess, we don't need google for this). US retail sales fell by 0.2 per cent in May. This was supposed to be good because it beat market expectations for a 0.7 per cent ...

Equity and commodity alignment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
... prices. This logic was also evident in the smaller than expected 0.5 per cent rise - the slowest in nine months -- in US retail spending in April. The details of the report showed that the April gain was mainly due to higher spending on food and fuel. ...

Shopping till unemployment drops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2010
... something industry watchers are calling "frugality fatigue." The WSJ could use the exact sentence to explain the latest US retail sales report released overnight. According to the US Census Bureau, retail spending increased by better-than-expected 0.8 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
The Australian share market has lost some of its early gains but remains higher at noon as stocks follow positive leads from markets in the United States and Europe. At 1201 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 20.3 points, or 0.43 per cent, at ...

Factions will stay: AMP, AustralianSuper

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
Two of the country's largest super funds, AustralianSuper and AMP, said a fully cohesive superannuation industry will never be achieved, as retail and not-for-profit super funds cannot completely set aside their differences to tackle the toughest issues ...