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Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... October 2009). The same goes for China. More recent statistical and survey data - exports, manufacturing and non-manufacturing PMI, retail sales, industrial production - have improved towards the end of last year. Is that 'em Australians I can hear shouting ...

Uncertainly certain RBA cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... in the midst on an uptrend and Wall Street was starting out strong. All because of the better-than expected manufacturing PMI report out of China - HSBC's measure moved into expansion territory for the first time in 13 months in November, the official ...

China: economy rising, market sinking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... Tthe National Bureau of Statistics and China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing reported that the country's manufacturing PMI increased to 50.6 last month - the highest level in seven months - thanks to stronger exports and new orders. This followed ...

Urbanisation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... November following a 90K surge (after revisions) in the previous week. It could be Markit's report that its US manufacturing PMI increased to 52.4 this month from 51.0 in October - the fastest rate of increase in five months. But then again, we have ...

Green lights on green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... green when economies around the globe remain in a sorry state. Just ask Markit Economics. The JP Morgan's global manufacturing PMI ("a composite index produced by JP Morgan and Markit in association with ISM and IFPSM") recorded a reading of 48.9 in ...

Market wrap - AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
... at 1,444.49, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite dropped 2.7 points, or 0.09 per cent, to 3,113.53. The ISM manufacturing PMI reading for September gave a charge to trade, after a day marred by glum PMI readings for last month from Europe and Asia. ...

Waiting to digest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... relieve investors' digestion. Markit's flash PMI readings for September were out - all disappointing. China's manufacturing PMI showed manufacturing in its 11th month of contraction (below 50) while the reading for the eurozone marked the 14th straight ...

Fall on the Wall

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
... year. So all good? Errr... perhaps, if the US economy is operating in a vacuum. But it ain't. The HSBC flash manufacturing PMI for China fell to a nine-month low of 47.8 in August from 49.3 in the previous month. More fuel for the hard landers. And surprise ...

If not now, when?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... for the ECB too, not even after staring at a euro record high unemployment rate of 11.2% and the Eurozone's manufacturing PMI dropping further below contraction territory to a reading of 44.0 in July from 45.1 in June. It's also too soon for the BOE ...

Tell that to the marines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... preliminary reading of 44.8, it's the l lowest reading since June 2009. So too is the world's. JPMorgan's Global Manufacturing PMI fell to a three-year low of 48.9. This is the first sub-50 reading (contraction) since June 2009. These are but recycled ...