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Chief economist update: The (trade) war is back on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2019
... Chinese economy. Both the National Bureau of Statistics' (official) and the Caixin PMI surveys show that the non-manufacturing sector (services) remains in expansion while manufacturing activity has rebounded into expansion territory in March and ...

Chief economist update: Not spring yet in the Eurozone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... in three months - as the services PMI eased to a reading of 52.5 April from 53.3 in the previous month, while the manufacturing PMI, though it improved to 47.9 from 47.5 in March, remained in contraction territory. IHS Markit provides a succinct narrative ...

Chief economist update: The Fed pause that refreshes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2019
... in America: US New Home Sales Jump to Near 1-1/2-Year High US Housing Starts Fall to Near 2-Year Low in March US Manufacturing Growth Holds Steady at Near 2-Year Low US Retail Sales Post Biggest Gain in 1-1/2 Years US Jobless Claims Drop to Fresh Low ...

Chief economist update: China and the spring in its step

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2019
... accelerating from 8.2% recorded in December 2018, January and February 2019. The Caixin China PMI survey showed the manufacturing sector back in expansion in March after posting sub-50 readings (indicating contraction) in the previous three months. The ...

Finance job opportunities rise post-RC

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2019
... Other industries to perform well at the start of 2019 include professional services (up 9.5%), mining (up 7.4%) and, manufacturing and distribution (up 11.3%), he said. "The sector to suffer the weakest quarter, and indeed last twelve months, was retail ...

Chief economist update: Equity market rally has legs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... recent rebound in the global composite and services PMI indices and the slowdown in the rate of decline in the global manufacturing PMI. Then again, the Fed could use the improvement in global economic activity as reason for resuming its policy normalisation ...

NZ Super dumps guns

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... heels of the passage of new gun laws in New Zealand, the NZ Super Fund has divested all companies involved in the manufacturing of automatic and semi-automatic weapons. The fund confirmed companies involved in the manufacture of civilian automatic and ...

Chief economist update: Japan yearns for a weaker yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2019
... and other Asian markets on the back of slowing demand." You can add the appreciating yen to this. The Tankan large manufacturing outlook index portends the pessimism continuing in the coming quarter with the reading falling to 8 in the March quarter ...

Chief economist update: Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst of Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
... "Businesses have been working to put in contingency plans for a no-deal Brexit". The jump in the latest IHS/Markit/CIPS UK manufacturing PMI to a 13-month high reading of 55.1 in March from 52.1 in the previous month bears this out for the simple reason ...

Chief economist update: China stitches it in time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... poster boy to that old saying that, "a stitch in time saves nine" China is it. Latest data show that China's manufacturing sector is back in expansion. The official National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) China manufacturing PMI increased to a reading ...