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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2016
... earthquake/tsunami/nuclear reactor meltdown hit the country. The Japanese yen was trading at below ¥80 a dollar back then. Caixin China Composite PMI The Caixin China Composite PMI - manufacturing and services - rose to 51.3 in March - the highest reading ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2016
... the Eurozone member countries -- only partially offset by a 0.9% increase in domestic orders. Nikkei/Markit Japan Service PMI Japan's services sector continues to slow. While March's PMI reading of 50 indicates that the sector is neither expanding nor ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2016
... 12.8%, 10.8% and 7.7%, respectively. Year-on-year, total dwelling approvals dropped by 9.0% Nikkei/Markit India manufacturing PMI The expansion in India's manufacturing sector gathered more momentum in March with the PMI rising to 52.4 - the highest ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... international demand provided incentives for farmers to slaughter a greater proportion of their herds. Markit flash US manufacturing PMI Markit's preliminary measure of US factory activity showed little improvement with the flash PMI printing at 51.4 ...

Market confidence marches in March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
... US (but more on this later). It's a humongous task to try to list them all on this space. But thanks to JP Morgan's Global PMI survey, we get an overview of the latest state of global activity. "JP Morgan Global Composite PMI gives an overview of the ...

With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... month. Supplier deliveries, input prices and selling prices retreated. Similarly, AiG's Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI) accelerated to 53.5 in February - the highest reading since July 2010 and the eight straight month of above-50 readings - ...

Crouching services, contracting manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... readings from China's official manufacturing and non-manufacturing purchasing managers' indices (PMIs). The manufacturing PMI fell deeper into contraction (below 50) from 49.4 in January to 49.0 in February. This is the lowest reading since November ...

Bad news on global activity and prices is the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... become self-fulfilling engendering more positives. A virtuous cycle, if you will. And if Markit Economics' latest manufacturing PMI updates on three of the world's biggest economies are anything to go by, we can surely do with some virtue of positive ...

Lesson in expectations management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... earlier progress made with fiscal consolidation and structural reforms". The latest Markit Economics December Flash Eurozone PMI report gives credence to the ECB's outlook: "The eurozone economy enjoyed a comfortably solid end to 2015, though policymakers ...

Road of no return

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... manufacturing production - slow, at best, until inventories hit painters - a fact we just saw from the weakening Markit US PMI manufacturing index and only last night, the disappointing drop in the Richmond Fed manufacturing index to minus 3 in November ...