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Running of the bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... outlawed bullfighting in Catalonia, Spain. Perhaps they've banned it in equity markets too. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) manufacturing index - a good leading indicator of the US economy -slipped to 55.5 in July from 56.2 in the previous ...

Every recovery starts jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... economic upturn is thought to be a jobless recovery. Add this to the lead provided by the still expanding, albeit slowing, ISM manufacturing index, increase in personal income, personal spending and savings and higher corporate profits and you'll find ...

Bad news bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... - but markets only factored in a 10.5 per cent fall. If anything could go wrong... The Institute for Supply Management's (ISM) manufacturing index - a leading indicator of the US economy - declined to 56.2 in June from 59.7 in May. Again, markets expected ...

Great disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... remember that employment is a lagging indicator of the economy. Forward indicators -- such as the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) manufacturing and non-manufacturing indexes -- continue to herald expansion. And more recently, Americans were seen ...

More worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... renewed threat to their wealth, US consumer confidence is rising. More positive indicators were reported just last night. The ISM manufacturing index might have slipped to 59.7 per cent in May from 60.4 in the previous month. But this is still way above ...

Feeding the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... ignoring the US at their own risk. America's economy is slowly coming back on track. The Institute of Supply Management's (ISM) manufacturing and services survey, housing, productivity and personal consumption -- released last week -- painted a picture ...

Sell in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2010
... topped analysts' estimates. Recent economic data out of America shows that the economic recovery there is progressing. The ISM manufacturing index rose to 60.4 in April -- higher than expected, the ninth consecutive month it has been in growth territory ...

Up, down, flat trading day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... overnight. Early trading saw the major indices climb. Okay that's good enough. There's an explanation for that. It's because the ISM non-manufacturing index rose to 53.0 in February from 50.5 in the previous month. I could stress the fact that it was ...

La de da de da

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... have already been factored in into market pricing. Last is one of my favourite leading indicators for the US economy - the ISM manufacturing index. Uh...oh, it's weaker than expected. The index printed 56.2 in February, down from 58.4 in the previous ...

Data data everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... warrant exceptionally low levels of the federal funds rate for an extended period." The Chicago PMI - a leading indicator of the ISM manufacturing index - printed strong February, much more than markets were expecting. The bad in the good data. US fourth ...