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The majority is wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
... rosier news out of Europe too. There's relative calm there despite the sovereign debt crisis overhang." German business confidence jumped to five-month highs in January and European investor confidence to seven-month highs in February". This is similar ...

Waiting for the RBA to dance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... read about the bigger-than-expected rise in German factory orders in December and the January jump in German business confidence to five-month highs or the surge in European investor confidence to seven-month highs in February? It doesn't matter whether ...

Priced in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... downgrades. The financial volatility and uncertainty that accompany these would in turn, sink investor, consumer and business confidence everywhere else, taking down growth everywhere else. Why do you think the People's Bank of China (PBOC) switched ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... Thursday closed mostly lower, slipping back from a modest technical rebound made as a strong survey of German business confidence helped sentiment amid the eurozone debt gloom. Dealers said investors waited hopefully but got no clear lead from a French ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... set to open slightly higher, despite the US market falling two per cent and while a strong survey of German business confidence did little to stop the major European bourses ending mostly lower. At 0800 AEDT on Friday, the December share price index ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... data. "For us, today, the focus will be trade data and also NAB (National Australia Bank) with their October business confidence and sentiment surveys," Mr Roberts said. "The surveys improved a little last month, and may do so again, since those surveys ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... London deals, and hit another 10-year low at 101.94 yen in Asian trade. Shares were also boosted after German business confidence data came out better than expected and by the prospect that the eurozone may finally implement a July accord on boosting ...

Find me that silver bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... remain less than 1% (annualised) on average in the second half of this year" with "with falling household and business confidence affecting both world trade and employment..." There you see. And last night, The National Association of Business Economics ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... index tumbled almost 15 points from July to 44.5, the lowest since April 2009. And in Europe, consumer and business confidence also slumped in August, the sixth consecutive monthly loss, according to a European Union poll, as the region continues to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... per cent to 5,643.92 points. Other European markets were similarly mixed. In Europe, eurozone consumer and business confidence also slumped in August, falling for the sixth consecutive month as Germany, Europe's powerhouse economy, tanked, an EU survey ...