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Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... know. It's another happy day for the stock markets, hoisted up by the news du jour of positive indications from the latest PMI survey readings. Yes. The Markit Economics index of US manufacturing rose to a flash reading of 56.2 in May - the highest in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... 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 banking giant's PMI improved ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... 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 48.3 reported in its ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... quarter international trade price indexes and the Australian Industry Group will release its performance of manufacturing (PMI) index for April. Meanwhile, Financial System Inquiry head David Murray is slated to provide an update on the inquiry at an ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... payrolls increased by a better-than-expected 220,000 in April following an upwardly revised 209,000 gain in March; The Chicago PMI soared to a reading of 63.0 in April versus 55.9 in the previous month and expectations of 56.9. Maybe, just maybe... these ...

May worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... renewed and escalated tension in the Ukraine and more evidences of a slowing China - the fourth month of below manufacturing PMI reading in April - and deflation threat in Europe. Take our money and run away in May? A Reuters' article published way back ...

BOE has a problem to smile about

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... March, with growth picking up to the sharpest since July 2007". This is not surprising given recent Markit Economics latest UK PMI readings. The country's manufacturing slowed in March from February but at 55.3 remains far above its long term average ...

The art of fighting without fighting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... a high 11.9%... and this, despite the trouble in neighbouring Ukraine and Russia. Similarly, the Eurozone's manufacturing PMI remains in expansion territory (53.0 in March), prompting Markit Economics' Chris Williamson to note that, ""Despite having ...

Better than good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... reading over the first quarter as a whole (53.4) was the best outcome since the second quarter of 2011"; In China, the official PMI inched up to 50.3 from 50.2 in Feb but... HSBC's final measure dipped to 48 from 48.5; for Japan, the BOJ's quarterly ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... down from its highest point since early September 2008. The Markit Economics' Eurozone Composite Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for March stood at 53.0, down from February's 53.2. The 28-nation bloc PMI stood at 53.4 during the first quarter, the best ...