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May sell or May stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... 1.6 per cent in March - double market expectations and the first rise since September last year. Similarly, its manufacturing PMI improved sharply in April. There. Three of the world's biggest economies are on the mend and confidence is also starting ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... index of commodity prices for March. The Australian Industry Group/PricewaterhouseCoopers Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (Australian PMI) for April is also released. In company news, Macquarie Group Ltd releases its annual result. Woodside ...

Select exits third party distribution

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
Select Asset Management is exiting the retail third party distribution market and will now be focusing on manufacturing multi-asset class, multi-manager portfolios for its clients, says the firm's new chief executive, Andrew Fairweather. Fairweather ...

...and targets SMSF market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... managed super fund (SMSF) market by launching the firm's Ascend SMSF product. Paul Sainsbury, director of product manufacturing at AMP, said the product allows trustees to have complete control over their fund while the firm manages administration and ...

Vantage point

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... is still way below the 50 optimism/pessimism demarcation, but still an improvement. Where Wall Street sat, it saw manufacturing activity in New York improving. The Empire State Manufacturing Survey jumped to -14.65 in April. More than halving last month's ...

Make love not leverage

... are talking the talk. It is because of yet more signals that the comatose US economy is beginning to stir. The ISM manufacturing survey unexpectedly rose to 36.3 in March. Although still below the 50 expansion/contraction mark, the index's improvement ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... sector employment dropped by 742,000 in March - higher than anticipated. Better news on housing, construction and manufacturing saw buying increase. The Institute for Supply Management's index of manufacturing activity contracted in March, but by a bit ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... approvals data, both for February. The Australian Industry Group/PricewaterhouseCoopers Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index for March is released. The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations will publish its skilled job vacancies survey. ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
... to satisfy their needs if not their want. This positive indication is backed up by the Richmond Federal Reserve manufacturing survey which showed the index of manufacturing activity improved significantly to a reading of -20 in March from -51 in February ...

Chinese medicine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... the 614,000 jobs that disappeared in the previous month. Similarly, the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) non-manufacturing index - a key indicator of activity in the US services, construction and financial sectors - fell to 41.6 last month from 42.9 ...