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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
... October of the same year. The LMCI was at 2.6 in November and 1.8 in December 2015 when the Fed lifted off last December. Eurozone retail PMI Some good news out of the euro area. Markit Economics' Eurozone retail PMI - which tracks monthly changes in ...

Australia on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2016
... quarter, with real GDP expanding by 3.1% over the year. This compares with 2.0% growth for the US and the UK, 1.5% in the Eurozone and a 0.1% contraction in Japan. This reminded me again of Lloyd Blankfein's -- chairman and chief executive of Goldman ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2016
... growth rate since September 2012. This puts Australia's year-on-year economic growth rate ahead of the US (2.0%), the Eurozone (1.5%), the United Kingdom (2.0%) and Japan (-0.05%). US ISM manufacturing index Contrary to indications of weakening manufacturing ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2016
... the proportion of respondents expecting less jobs in the coming months increased to 18.1% in May from 16.7% in April. Eurozone CPI inflation Flash estimates show that headline consumer price inflation in the Eurozone dipped by 0.1% in the year to May ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... doves but good news for US economy because of housing's large multiplier effect on employment, income and consumption. Eurozone economic and business sentiment Silver lining? The Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs' (DG ECFIN) flash ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
... again to 50.8 in April. Markit's US PMI readings have stayed above the expansion line over the same period. Markit Flash Eurozone PMI Cue in the growing mass of central bank unbelievers - those opining that CB policy -- QE and negative interest rates ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... prices. New home prices in Shanghai increased by 28.0% year-on-year last month while those in Beijing rose by 18.3%. Eurozone inflation After the ECB governing council met and kept policy unchanged last month, ECB president Mario Draghi remarked that ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2016
... average weekly earnings had been slowing since recording a 2.6% year-on-year advance last December, down to 2.25% in March. Eurozone industrial production Industrial output in the Eurozone decreased by 0.8% in February a partial correction to January's ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2016
... in the month of February with foreign orders dropping by 2.7% -- led by a 3.7% plunge in orders from the rest of the Eurozone member countries -- only partially offset by a 0.9% increase in domestic orders. Nikkei/Markit Japan Service PMI Japan's services ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... quarter from 12 in the fourth quarter of last year and lower than consensus expectations for a reading of 9. Likewise, Eurozone inflation remains negative, at minus 0.1% in the year to March (from minus 0.2%). The ECB has euro appreciation not to thank ...