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Jumping at shadows no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... unemployment - now at a 26-year high of 9.5 per cent and rising? What about it? Let me repeat, employment along business inventories, are lagging indicators. They show what businesses have been doing to adjust to the new reality of the receding economy. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
... industry layoffs and the holiday-shortened week, however. In other economic data, the Commerce Department said wholesale inventories fell for a ninth straight month in May as businesses continued to trim stockpiles. Inventories dipped 0.8 percent in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... General Motors. Energy shares led gains after the US government reported a larger-than-expected decline in US crude oil inventories, sparking hopes of a recovery in demand that sent oil prices sharply higher. Ample demand at an auction for Treasury debt ...

The good in the bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... be as shy to open their wallets as before. More good bad news. The details also showed the biggest drop in business inventories on record. This detracted 2.8 per cent from the headline growth figures. Take this out and real GDP would have fallen by only ...

Sick of swines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... month. There's not much to hang onto here especially with the unemployment rate and foreclosures still rising and inventories of unsold homes still high. But slowly rising consumer confidence, lower mortgage rates and climbing equity markets could provide ...

Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
... were months when this statistic fell by much more than what we got in March this year. Like retail sales, US business inventories fell by a bigger-than-expected 1.3 per cent in February. Expectations were for a 1.2 per cent fall. Moreover, January's ...

Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... can call an end to this financial and economic nightmare. Feeder indicators such as rising unemployment, still high inventories of unsold homes - more building will only add to inventories -- and still restrictive credit conditions will be the main challenges ...

Thank you RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... Moody's downgrading three - ANZ, CBA Westpac -- of Australia's big four banks and a 1.9 per cent reduction in business inventories in the December quarter. In fact, the R word has again become prominent in our domestic dailies because of these almost ...

GFC in a fortnight

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... Lower revenues force companies to reduce costs to preserve profits by slashing head count (rising unemployment) and inventories (slumping industrial production). Falling industrial output leads to less imported inputs demanded from other countries (UK ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... than market expectations for a 5.5 per cent dive. And am sure you've also already read that this was because business inventories rose and contributed 132 points to growth. However, this inventory build-up was involuntary and was because consumer spending ...