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Wonderully dreadful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... in China, the Eurozone and the UK strengthened further in August (this comes on top of better-than-expected manufacturing PMI readings in the same month). Domestically, just imagine the amount of consumer spending (60% of the economy) that could be generated ...

30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... activity gauge for the region shows that growth in the region continues to improve.A Markit's Eurozone final manufacturing PMI rose to 51.4 in August - the second straight month that the index had been in expansion territory - from 50.3 in the previous ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... Commonwealth Bank market analyst Steven Daghlian said the market received a boost from the release of official Chinese manufacturing PMI figures for August, which were better than expected. "The economic news out of China was quite a positive sign and ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
... shot up 49.37 (1.36 per cent) to 3,675.74. "The major averages settled near their highs as better-than-expected manufacturing PMI data out of China, the eurozone, and the US helped entice investors into bidding up global equities," Briefing.com said ...

The others

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... not our only export market. And things are picking up in the others. Its picking up in Europe. The Eurozone's manufacturing PMI rose to a 16-month high of 48.8 in June from 48.3 in the previous month, prompting Markit Economics to declare that, "On this ...

It'll be on 18 September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... second consecutive month in May, by 98,265 - the biggest ever decline. This good news comes on top of Spain's manufacturing PMI jumping to a two-year high in the same month. Not just that, Bloomberg also reports that in March, "Spain registered its first ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... private client adviser Craig Walker said. "The market seems really to be sitting on its hands ahead of the Chinese manufacturing PMI, which doesn't come out until tomorrow," Mr Walker said. "The market is pretty flat ahead of economic data tomorrow." ...

The day the music died

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... of Fedspeak of QE rollback "in the next few meetings". There's the yen rebound and lower-than-expected China manufacturing PMI - not good for exports. There was the spike in 10-year JGB yields following BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's 'revelation' to ...

China's turn to provide buy opportunities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... Composite index plunged 3.7% and the S&P/ASX 200 index lost 1.5% yesterday. All due to reports that China's non-manufacturing PMI eased to 54.5 in February - the weakest level in five months - from 56.2 in January. Don't know about you but isn't the ...

Good, better, best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... months -- rose by 0.5% in December after an unchanged reading in November. Betterer number 3. Markit's flash US manufacturing PMI improved to 56.1 in January from 54.0 in the previous month, indicating an acceleration in general business activity in ...