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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... 4,268, with 8,052 contracts traded. Wall Street closed mixed on economic data showing a slight rebound in industrial production and home building in July but a downturn in New York manufacturing. At the closing bell, the blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... market looks set to open flat after Wall Street closed mixed on economic data showing a slight rebound in industrial production and home building in July but a downturn in New York manufacturing. At 0758 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index ...

Doing our bit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... re-accelerate growth has failed. The stats: Retail sales increased by 13.1% in the year to July from 13.7% in June. Industrial production rose by 9.2% in July from 9.5% in June. Merchandise trade surplus narrowed to US$25.2 billion in July from US$31.7 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... fairly subdued as traders looked ahead to the release of Chinese data on Thursday, including inflation and industrial production. The mood was also somewhat gloomy after Standard & Poor's cut Greece's sovereign debt rating outlook to negative. London's ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... Locally, investors remain cautious ahead of major Chinese economic data to be released Friday, including GDP, industrial production, investment and retail sales figures. "The market will tread water until the Chinese market news comes out," Mr Daghlian ...

China manuf growth figures being misread

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... Reinforcing this, business commentator Michael Pascoe yesterday wrote that as the HSBC PMI refers to China's industrial production, the average for which is 14.8% annual growth, a five-percentage point drop still puts annual growth figures in a very ...

That anxious wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... Empire State manufacturing index that in March rose to its highest level since June 2011. There's April industrial production growing at its fastest since December 2010. There's the bigger than expected increase in housing starts last month. There's ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... the upside" in morning trade, said Wells Fargo Advisors, referring to new figures showing April surges in industrial production and new home construction. But, they said, "despite the encouraging reports, stocks pared their gains as eurozone fears resurfaced. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012
... China's consumer price index and producer price index report for April were due out at 1130 AEST, while industrial production and retail sales for the same month were slated for publication at 1530 AEST. The best-performing sector at the open was gold ...

Dickens on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... conditions remain fragile. US retail sales and the leading index rose by more than expected but jobless claims, industrial production, the Empire State and Philly Fed indexes and housing disappointed. Microsoft, General Electric, Bank of America and ...