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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
... exports and import-competing producers" is how AiG explained the rise in its Performance of Manufacturing Index to 58.1 in March - the highest level since April 2004 and the ninth straight month of expansion (the longest since 2006). All seven of activity ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
... is the indication from the latest ADP employment report that showed 200,000 workers were hired by private US companies in March - a slight dip from February's 205,000 addition but more than market expectations for a 195,000 increase. The official non-farm ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... confidence A rebound on Wall Street and a more dovish Fed pushed the Conference Board's consumer confidence index up to 96.2 in March, stronger than consensus expectations for a 94.0 reading and February's 94.0 (upwardly revised from 92.2). While US ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... Consumer confidence among South Koreans improved to a reading of 100 - an equal number of optimists and pessimists - in March from 98 in the previous month. The latest figure marks the first improvement in sentiment following three consecutive months ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
... for the country's labour market remains dim. While business confidence improved for a third consecutive month to 37.4 in March from 37.1 in February and 36.5 in January, it remains far below the 50-mark indicating pessimists still outnumber optimists. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... PMI Markit's preliminary measure of US factory activity showed little improvement with the flash PMI printing at 51.4 in March, just a tad higher than February's final reading of 51.3 and lower than even the bottom range (51.5 - 52.5) of consensus expectations. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2016
... burdening many potential buyers." China MNI business sentiment The MNI China business sentiment indicator printed at 49.9 in March, unchanged from February, marking the second consecutive month of sub-50 reading (the level that delineates optimism from ...

ASX chief announces immediate resignation

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... when Tabcorp was attempting to get a Cambodian online gaming licence. When news of the investigation came out earlier in March, ASX chair Rick Holliday-Smith said that Funke Kupper would be "continuing in his role as ASX managing director and chief executive. ...

Market confidence marches in March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
"Do you know where you're going to... Where are you going to Do you know?" - Diana Ross, 'Theme from Mahogany" Last week was another good week for equity markets with most major benchmark indices finishing with green lights blinking brightly. Has the ...

Crouching services, contracting manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... rate from 20% to 19.5% in February 2015, followed up with a reduction in its benchmark lending rate from 5.6% to 5.35% in March and so on. China's central bank cut the RRR four times in 2015 taking it down from 20% to 17.5% by end-December. It cut interest ...