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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... 2,230.46 while Sydney ended flat, edging up 4.3 points to 5,638.9. Traders were focused on China as the HSBC preliminary purchasing managers index (PMI), which tracks activity in the country's factories and workshops, slipped to 50.3 in August. WELLINGTON ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... manufacturing activity increasing sharply in July and rising at its fastest pace in more than two years. The official purchasing managers index, hit 51.7 -- its best showing since April 2012. WELLINGTON - The benchmark NZX 50 Index shed 58.058 points ...

Australia at heart of new Asia-centric world order

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... human history and will have huge ramifications for the balance of power in the global economy. He explained that in purchasing power parity terms, China's gross national product (GNP) as a share of global GNP was less than one-tenth that of US in 1980. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... HSBC report showed the performance of China's service sector fell to a record low in July. The HSBC China services Purchasing Managers' Index in July slipped to 50.0, the dividing line between expansion and contraction, down from 53.1 in June, according ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... manufacturing activity increasing sharply in July and rising at its fastest pace in more than two years. The official purchasing managers index, hit 51.7 -- its best showing since April 2012. WELLINGTON - The benchmark NZX 50 Index shed 58.058 points ...

MetLife refocuses on middle classes with direct distribution

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... insurance to retirement products, according to the insurance industry research firm Limra. The change in insurance purchasing is so profound for the insurance sector that MetLife in a June briefing to investors in the US said 79 million households either ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... session in a row, boosted by Chinese manufacturing data and US company earnings. Banking giant HSBC said its preliminary purchasing managers index of China's manufacturing activity for July jumped to 52.0 from a final reading of 50.7 in June. The result ...

Mission accomplished?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... surveys on UK manufacturing, construction and services conducted by Markit Economics and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) pointed to rising momentum in the labour market. The jobs component of the manufacturing PMI rose to 39-month ...

Manny Pohl issues prospectus for new retail LIC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... Pohl explained. "At ECPAM we buy businesses with superior economics. We buy to hold, not trade. And the basis of our purchasing decisions is seeking well priced, underlying value opportunities. We aim to structure portfolios with higher weightings in ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... related to traders selling underperforming stocks and realising losses to reduce potential tax bills. A rise in China's Purchasing Managers' Index on Tuesday showed activity in its factories at a six-month high, gave the Australian market a boost before ...