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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 ...

The name is bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... these are still not normal times... not with the Fed still anchoring the fed funds rate at zero and not with it still purchasing US$45 billion monthly. Yields falling at the long end with the short anchored (normally) presage a slowing in the economy. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... 22,953.76 but Shanghai closed 0.18 per cent lower, or 3.66 points, to end at 2,021.29. HSBC said preliminary data from its purchasing managers index (PMI) showed activity in China's factories declining at a much slower pace in May than in April. The ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... from China. At 0805 AEST on Tuesday, the June share price index futures contract was up nine points at 5,464. The HSBC purchasing managers index (PMI) for China for April on Monday came in at 48.1, a tad up from the 48.0 in March but weaker than the ...