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Same song

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... continues to expand. Duh!!! Those paying closer attention would note that the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) manufacturing index already telegraphed this earlier this month. But equities sold off when the ISM index was released because it dropped ...

Bending it like Bernanke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... Private sector jobs have been consistently rising in the past seven months. Sure if you look at the latest ISM manufacturing index, you could surmise that output is slowing, but it remains in expansion territory. Evidence confirmed by continued growth ...

Good newer news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
... they saw the latest ISM non-manufacturing survey - nada, for what they saw was undeniably good. The ISM non-manufacturing index "increased" to 54.3 in July from 53.8 the previous month. This is also "better" than the expected stumble to 53.0. This also ...

Running of the bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... 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 month. This was better than ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
... June, and the Australian Industry Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers release their Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index for July. TD Securities and the Melbourne Institute release their inflation gauge for July. In companies news, Crane Group ...

Every recovery starts jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... 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 it difficult to justify ...

Bad news bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... 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 the fall, but ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUL 2010
... index of commodity prices for June and the Australian Industry Group/PricewaterhouseCoopers Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI) for June. Also, the Australian Bureau of Statistics is scheduled to release building approvals and retail sales, both ...

Great disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
Ok, ok...there's no defending the indefensible, so I wouldn't even try. Now you know what happens when hype meets reality. The S&P 500 index plummeted by 3.44 per cent when "great expectations" on the US jobs front turned out to be a "great disappointment". ...

More worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUN 2010
... 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 the 50 expansion/contraction ...