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Expansions maintained despite dashed expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
... are signs, however, that growth could pick up again: new orders showed the largest monthly rise since January, business optimism about the year ahead perked up and hiring remained encouragingly resilient." The latest survey also indicated that the Fed ...

Confidence: the business/household divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... average). The business confidence index needs to drop to a reading of +3 (or 57.7%) next month to halt the upward trend in optimism. While not impossible, this is highly unlikely given the positive forward indications - "Other leading indicators were ...

Good to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2017
... equities is in store. "Nearly one out of three individual investors expects stocks to rebound over the short-term as optimism rebounded strongly in the latest AAII Sentiment Survey. At the same time, both neutral sentiment and pessimism pulled back". ...

Japan rides the virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
... towards exporters). The stronger momentum in Japanese equities is, perhaps, explained by the Bank of Japan's (BOJ) growing optimism over the country's economic outlook. In its 'Summary of Opinions at the Monetary Policy Meeting on April 26 and 27, 2017' ...

Australian economy proceeding according to projections

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... economic and survey data released over the past 24 hours provide further credence to the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) optimism over the economic outlook and at the same time afford federal treasurer ScoMo the right to give Moody's recent warning ...

Budget Eve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... in the bank's monetary policy statement released three days later (5 May), showed that Lowe might be understating his optimism. The Statement of Monetary Policy (SoMP) for May showed that while the RBA kept its FY 2017/18 inflation forecast unchanged ...

The growth-inflation divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... strengthening growth - the BOJ even notes that its economy is growing above potential? Reason dictates that stronger growth lifts optimism that encourages spending that allows businesses to lift the prices of their products and services. Has the growth-inflation ...

Japanese businesses have sunnier mood

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... is lower than market expectations for an increase to plus 14, it was the best level since the fourth quarter of 2015. Optimism also improved among non-manufacturers with the index rising to plus 20 in the first quarter of this year - the highest since ...

Global healing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
... improving sans the promised fiscal stimulus, sans the restructuring, sans the tax cuts, being implemented. It's been goose by optimism over Trump's reflationary agenda but it's also running on its growth momentum. And it's not happening only in America. ...

Confidently improving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... and his Party for Freedom (PVV), indicating the rejection of Trump-like populism in Europe - the resurgence in consumer optimism comes as no surprise. After dropping to a reading of -6.2 in February (from -4.8 in January), the flash estimate of the Directorate ...

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KARREN VERGARA
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