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Third arrow, broken arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... in the previous month. Similarly, after accelerating ahead of the sales tax rise, year-on-year growth in industrial production slowed to a mere 2.1% in May after expanding by as much as 10.5% in January. You want more? There's more. Japan's core CPI ...

Wagging the giant doggie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... spending increased by a better-than-expected 12.5% in the year to May - the fastest annual pace in five months. Industrial production growth quickened to 8.8% in the year to May from 8.7% in the previous month. Both the official and HSBC's measure of ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... drive things higher. "I think it will be one-way traffic until we get some good news," he told AAP. "China's industrial production and fixed asset investment data is out today, if that might comes in a bit positive, it might help sentiment improve." ...

Janet puts it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2014
... recent data is certainly much more encouraging on a wide range of fronts from car sales to retail sales to industrial production, so I'm quite hopeful we'll see a pickup in economic activity." But "a high degree of monetary accommodation remains warranted" ...

Knight Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... activity". The other 10 reported increased economic activity "since the previous report" (5 March). Too, US industrial production expanded by a better-than-expected 0.7% in March versus expectations for a 0.4% gain. Better, February's 0.6% advance was ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... Thursday the June share price index futures contract was up 17 points at 5,424. March US home construction and industrial production bolstered sentiment while the Federal Reserve's Beige Book on US economic conditions confirmed the central bank's view ...

This means war (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... sales; Indian inflation easing for the third straight month in February and a surprise uptick in January industrial production. Not to mention, New Zealand. Its economy is gaining such momentum that the RBNZ raised interest rates there only yesterday. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2013
... 4,134.1 points. Frankfurt's DAX 30 rose 0.25 per cent to 9,195.17 points despite official data showing German industrial production shrank again in October, with economic activity down in all major sectors. Meanwhile, France should post economic growth ...

Investors unwise to flee emerging markets

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
... developing-world economic growth has traditionally been powerful. Over the past decade, a 1% rise in developed-market industrial production has tracked with a 2.4% increase in emerging-market industrial production. "Activity in the advanced economies ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... major economic reforms. Trading sentiment was buoyed on Monday by strong US jobs figures and by healthy industrial production figures out of China - further evidence of a steady recovery from a slowdown earlier in the year. Tokyo ended up 1.30 per cent ...