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Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... Street given economic news reports over the past 24 hours. Certainly not Markit Economics' flash estimate of US manufacturing PMI - up to a better-than-expected 57.5 in June from 56.4 in May - nor the 4.9% jump in US existing home sales in May that followed ...

Wagging the giant doggie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... to 8.8% in the year to May from 8.7% in the previous month. Both the official and HSBC's measure of China's manufacturing PMI increased in May from April. There's something good happening in China... and the A$ knows it.

May worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... renewed and escalated tension in the Ukraine and more evidences of a slowing China - the fourth month of below manufacturing PMI reading in April - and deflation threat in Europe. Take our money and run away in May? A Reuters' article published way back ...

The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... a high 11.9%... and this, despite the trouble in neighbouring Ukraine and Russia. Similarly, the Eurozone's manufacturing PMI remains in expansion territory (53.0 in March), prompting Markit Economics' Chris Williamson to note that, ""Despite having ...

A$ rising on China slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
... economist, China & co-head of Asian economic research, Hongbin Qu, made in the PMI report: "The HSBC Flash China Manufacturing PMI reading for March suggests that China's growth momentum continued to slow down. Weakness is broadly-based with domestic ...

Just jokin' Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... Depends on how you look at it, but China's latest PMI reading is ambivalent - manufacturing.A China's official manufacturing PMI eased to 50.2 in Feb from 50.5 in the previous month. Slowing? But the non-manufacturing PMI jumped to 55.0 from 53.4. Rebalancing? ...

G-20 goes for growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2014
... curse the weather too for the weak manufacturing conditions in New York and Philadelphia - the Empire State manufacturing PMI slid to a reading of 4.48 in Feb from 12.51 in Jan; the Philly Fed index fell to minus 6.3 in Feb from plus 9.4 in Jan. Blame ...

Traffic light trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014
... red, amber and blue flashing. Red. The colour flashing for most Asian equity markets after Markit/HSBC's flash manufacturing PMI for China dropped to 48.3 in February - its lowest reading in seven months and less than expectations for a 49.4 print - ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
... Markets chief market analyst said the Australian market might be further supported by the news that China's non-manufacturing PMI business indicator had improved following a rise in its official manufacturing PMI on Thursday. The US figures were especially ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
... (PMI) of manufacturing activity climbed to 51.4 from 51.1 in September, the highest reading since April 2012. US manufacturing PMI for October from the Institute of Supply Management rose to 56.4 per cent from 56.2 per cent in September. Analysts expected ...