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Another dead feline bounce

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... petrol prices rose. In the year to June, retail spending was down 9.0 per cent. Similarly, last night's US industrial production report did not paint a rosy picture - it fell another 0.4 per cent in June. Yes, it was better than the expected 0.6 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
... out of Wall Street stocks for a second consecutive day. Stocks slid as a seventh straight monthly drop in industrial production overshadowed better-than-expected data on home construction, building permits and inflation. The drop extends the market's ...

Slippery - watch your step

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... to the March quarter; Japan's has shrunk by 9.1 per cent; the Eurozone's and the UK by 4.1 per cent each. Industrial production was worse in these countries as exemplified by the 31 per cent-plus plunge in Japanese industrial output in the year to April. ...

GS trounces GM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
... consecutive monthly increase and its third consecutive reading above 50. Japan is making a comeback. Japanese industrial production jumped by 5.2 per cent in April - the second straight month of increase and the biggest jump in 56 years (March 1953). ...

May sell or May stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... showed that Japan too is responding to these improvements in second derivatives in the US and China. Japanese industrial production rose by 1.6 per cent in March - double market expectations and the first rise since September last year. Similarly, its ...

IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... But we've already left the first quarter behind and the signals since then have been encouraging. Chinese industrial production has rebounded by 8.3 per cent in the year to March from less than 4 per cent in January and February. Fixed capital investment ...

Vantage point

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... continue to prevail. No doubt the unconverted would point to last night's 12.8 per cent year-on-year fall in US industrial production and how capacity utilisation has fallen to a record low of 69.3 per cent in March. Certainly this will have negative ...

The good news in good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... lending this year. According to Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, China's real economy is also improving. Industrial production rose by 8.3 per cent in the year to March - the first time in six months. Consumer demand is growing and investment in fixed ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
... the US economy is improving at the margin. US durable goods orders ex-transport - a leading indicator of industrial production -- rose by 3.9 per cent in February after four straight months of decline and expectations for a 2 per cent fall. Total new ...

Thank you RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... quarter maybe negative for the fourth quarter but it lays the groundwork for re-stocking - and so growth in industrial production -- in subsequent quarters. This becomes especially true following reports of continued growth in retail sales and new home ...