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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 ...

Global recession coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... unsold homes rose to a 10.9-month supply in the month from 10.3 months in July. Tighter lending standards and rising inventories suggest that house prices have yet to find a floor. Rising unemployment would not help either. The US labour market is in ...

The good and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... rate peaked, allowing anxious homeowners' to hold on to their homes and thereby putting a floor under house prices. Inventories of unsold homes start to decline. House prices start appreciating enabling banks to earn profits, encouraging more lending ...

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