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Somethin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2011
... this strong number. And what happens when consumers start spending? Industries crank up production. While industrial production rose in line with expectations -- up 0.2% in September - the strong 0.4% increase in manufacturing production and the even ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... crisis. Also coming up will be number of US economic data releases, especially markers of the inflation rate: industrial production (Monday); producer prices (Tuesday); consumer prices and housing starts (Wednesday); and existing-home sales and weekly ...

Coin toss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... dating US recessions) still don't show a recession is looming. Let's have a look. US real retail spending and industrial production may have slowed in recent months, but latest readings show their annual rates of growths consistent with the pace before ...

Moody's does an S&P

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
... underscored by better than expected 0.3% economic contraction in the second quarter and the reversal in both industrial production and business and consumer confidence in recent months. The appreciating yen remains the major risk for the Japanese economy ...

Willing America into a dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... recently, are being deployed to merge and acquire other businesses. Back to eco stats, the latest update on industrial production - an indicator watched by the NBER -- provides a positive indication. US industrial production soared by 0.7% in July following ...

Lost GPS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... since both measures reflect activity across the entire economy. The committee places less emphasis on the industrial production and real sales series, which mainly cover the manufacturing and goods-producing sectors of the economy. The committee also ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... deficit-cutting plan. Tokyo ended 0.69 per cent, or 68.32 points, lower at 9,833.03 as data showing an improvement in industrial production was outweighed by disappointing earnings results, including from Nintendo, which suffered a huge sell-off. Hong ...

QE3 - yes, no, maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... that matters more to Sir Ben. It'll be release tonight along with the latest update on consumer sentiment, industrial production and the Empire State Manufacturing Survey. Then we can resume QE3 scoring.

Back to cactus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... a playlist of last night's releases suggesting that the US economy is becoming not a pretty picture: US industrial production rose by 0.1 per cent in May following an unchanged reading in the previous month and is lower than market expectations for a ...

Making the data fit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... improving' today. The change in mood was prompted by the bigger than expected 13.3 per cent growth in Chinese industrial production in the year to May and a 25.8 per cent year-on-year jump in fixed asset investment in the first five months of 2011. Bu ...