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Expansion everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
... ISM reports that this sub-index had been on an "increasing, faster" trend for 19 months. It's the same story for the Eurozone, the final manufacturing PMI for September floated up to 58.1 in September - the best reading since February 2011 - from 57.4 ...

ECB disengages from currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... underscores the market's faith in the single currency area's domestic growth outlook. There are very few reasons not to be. Eurozone GDP growth has accelerated to 2.1% in the year to the second quarter from 1.9% in the first quarter. This is the fastest ...

Flashes: activity expansion and moderating inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2017
... recent peak...softer cost inflation led to the slowest rise in average prices charged for three months". Markit's flash Eurozone composite PMI eased for the second straight month in July to its lowest level in six months, but with a reading of 55.8 in ...

Low inflation exporter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... at best right through 2006 but have become positively correlated since the years following the GFC. Inflation in the Eurozone showed the same pattern (which now also has China as its biggest source of imports (12%). Latest inflation data from China indicates ...

Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
... brought back financial market trepidation - sparked by last week's hawkish comments from central bank heads of the US, the Eurozone and the UK - that the end of cheap money is nigh. But while yields on 10-year bonds have risen sharply - US Treasuries ...

Stronger growth sans inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
... component eased to 55.0 in June from 60.5 in May. It's the same story across the pond. The final estimate of the IHS/Markit Eurozone manufacturing PMI rose to 57.4 in June from a preliminary reading of 57.3 and May's final tally of 57.0. This is the ...

Not so happy EOFY for the All Ords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
... previous month, the fifth straight month of slowing since peaking at 1.8% in January this year. 'Tis the same for the Eurozone where headline inflation slowed to 1.3% in the year to June, down from 1.4% in the previous month and 1.9% in April. While ...

Expansions maintained despite dashed expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
Markit Economics' preliminary estimates show that while the purchasing managers' indices (PMI) for the US, the Eurozone and Japan all came in below market expectations, all remained in expansion. The IHS/Markit flash US composite output index slipped ...

Eurozone gaining momentum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2017
... that financial markets are speculating that the European Central Bank (ECB) would follow suit...and soon. After all the Eurozone economy's gaining momentum. GDP growth accelerated to 1.9% in the year to the March quarter from 1.8% in the December 2016 ...

Better, but not good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... and rising credit growth and house prices and interest rate gaps - monetary policy divergence between the US and the Eurozone and Japan. "Closing this policy-path gap will likely engender higher financial volatilities than are currently priced in." "Financial ...