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A week's walk on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... 2.1% it predicted only three months ago. Hang on...didn't the IMF warned in March that it'll shave half a percent to US growth if the 'sequester' proceeds. It's in effect now, isn't it? The IMF may have opted to keep Uncle Sam's moustache on. At any ...

Missing the forest for the trees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
... lessened to 7.6% from 7.7% in February, but only because of the reduction in those Americans looking for work. Slowing US growth equals Fed unwinding. Doesn't make any sense, does it? That's why the dip buyers have made a meal of it. And they're the ...

Ben's your uncle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... spending cuts. The day before the cuts went into effect, the IMF went on record saying that, it would reduce its 2013 US growth forecast of 2.0% by 0.5% as a result of the "$85 billion in spending cuts...due to begin tomorrow". (Bloomberg, 28 February). ...

On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... warm and sunny days ahead. The ISM manufacturing index - what I consider the most reliable and consistent predictor of US growth - jumped to 53.1 last month from 50.2 in December. And again even better, all five components of the index - new orders ...

Affinia kicks off 2013 with three senior hires

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
TAL's new risk-specialist dealer group, Affinia, today announces that it has hired three regional managers to help drive the group's ambitious growth plans. Jonathon Nguyen has joined the team as Affinia's regional manager, Vic, Tas, SA, WA. Nguyen ...

Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... picking up. Markets are up. It was lookin' good baby. Then came the fall or perhaps, the fall out from the euro crisis. US growth slowed and threatened to double-dip. Markets corrected. QE2 launched less than a year later (3 November 2010) to restart ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... CAC 40 fell 0.76 per cent to 3,408.89 points. HONG KONG - Asian markets closed mostly lower as better-than-expected US growth data failed to offset concerns over corporate earnings. Trading was also nervous at the start of a crucial week that will see ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
... better-than-expected estimate of economic growth in the third quarter. European stocks rebounded on figures showing a pick up in the US growth rate, after having taken a hit on the Spanish unemployment rate breaching 25 per cent for the first time. In ...

Market Wrap

AMP  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
... quarter but still too slow to build much optimism. LONDON - European stocks rebounded on figures showing a pick up in the US growth rate, after having taken a hit on the Spanish unemployment rate breaching 25 per cent for the first time. London's FTSE ...

Aussie shares to rally within a year: Russell

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... factors that would improve the domestic market. Lower interest rates, stronger domestic demand and an improvement in US growth were listed, to a lesser extent, as catalysts for a recovery. A volatile risk-on risk-off pattern seen over the past two years ...