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Chief economist update: Strike while iron ore cools

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2021
... pent-up client demand at home and abroad. As a result, firms also anticipate further rises in employment and investment" (IHS Markit China Business Outlook). This is in line with universal expectations for stronger growth this year - much stronger than ...

Chief economist update: Hot flashes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021
... activity with a dash of inflation. This is the overriding conclusion that could be derived from the flash estimates of the IHS Markit Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) surveys conducted for the US, the Eurozone, the UK and Japan. The PMI is based ...

Chief economist update: Light at the end of the Euro tunnel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
... third, before contracting by 0.7% (there's that "7" again) in the final quarter of 2020. Readings from the latest IHS/Markit Eurozone PMI surveys - both the composite and services PMI fell deeper into contraction territory, to 47.8 and 45.4 in January ...

Northern Trust boosts whole office strategy

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... platform to streamline its front-to-back office operations offering for asset managers. The alliance will integrate IHS Markit's thinkFolio with Northern Trust's middle office outsourcing platform and both firms will leverage each other's strengths to ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone at risk of double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
... COVID-19 vaccine and some skepticism over its effectiveness that, in turn, are weighing on business activity. The latest IHS Markit Eurozone Composite PMI showed that although overall activity improved from the six-month low reading of 45.3 in November ...

Chief economist update: Fed acts with inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... in the month of November, following a 0.1% fall in the previous month for its second straight month of decline. The IHS Markit Flash US PMI finds that this continued in December. Here are its key findings: Flash US Composite Output Index at 55.7 (58.6 ...

S&P to buy competitor for $60bn

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
S&P Global will spend about $60 billion in stock to buy data and analytics provider IHS Markit, with the two merging by 2021 end. S&P and IHS Markit have entered a definitive merger agreement that is unanimously approved by both their boards and are ...

Chief economist update: Japan's third wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2020
... private investment". It couldn't come soon enough. For despite rebounding from multi-year lows in recent months, the Markit/Nikkei PMI surveys show that private sector activity in the country remains in contraction - the composite and services PMI ...

Chief economist update: A V, a W and an L

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
The latest results from the monthly Markit Economics PMI (purchasing managers' index) draws a picture of the three shapes of the economic recovery or otherwise. The letter V. Masked or unmasked, the IHS/Markit flash US composite PMI continues to ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 returns to Europe with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... markets re-opened. However, the service sector posted its biggest contraction (47.6) since May (30.5) as, according to Markit Economics, "face-to-face consumer businesses in particular have been hit by intensifying virus concerns". At its September meeting ...

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