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Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... slipped 0.63 per cent, or 56.02 points, to 8,783.89 Fears over growth in China on Saturday were stoked when the official purchasing managers' index (PMI) of manufacturing activity fell to a nine-month low of 49.2 in August from 50.1 in July, owing to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... showed manufacturing activity in Australia's key trading partner China slumped to a nine-month low in August. China's purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell to 49.2 index points in August, from 50.1 the previous month, government figures showed. Macquarie ...

Food is the new Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2012
... because of the greater allocation of food - 40% to 60% -- on their household budgets. Apart from cutting into households' purchasing power, higher food prices could slow - if not prevent altogether - central banks efforts to re-stimulate slowing economies. ...

China manuf growth figures being misread

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
HSBC's flash China Purchasing Managers' Index result released last week is being read as further evidence of a broad-based manufacturing slowdown, but this misinterprets what's going on in the sector, said Premium China Funds Management. The common ...

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... Australia, the US, the UK, Europe and China have all declined in May from April. And save for the US and India, all purchasing manager's indices dropped below the 50 expansion/contraction mark last month. Woe is us. It would have been not as bad if we ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... in the highly liquid stocks." Weaker materials stocks also dragged the market lower ahead of the release of China's Purchasing Manufacturing Index (PMI) data at 1100 AEST and the private PMI reading at 1230 AEST. "If both of those numbers come in above ...

Managers confident on value as China PMI contracts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... manufacturing show a contraction for the seventh consecutive month, although investment managers remain confident. HSBC's purchasing managers index (PMI) yesterday indicated factory output fell from 49.3 in April to 48.7 in May, representing the seventh ...

AIA innovates around adviser feedback

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... clients insurance within super. The new Super IP offering will enable advisers to offer clients more flexibility in purchasing income protection insurance by paying for the appropriate level of cover wholly through their super. Head of product & marketing ...

SMSFs face fire-sales of illiquid assets

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... training and advice, Topdocs, Michael Harkin. "According to the feedback we're receiving from the industry, trustees purchasing real estate with borrowings are quick to calculate what their potential investment gains will be and how to manage loan repayments ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... might be looking for even a 50 basis point rate cut at the moment," he said. "At the same time, we have China PMI (purchasing managers' index) numbers to look out for so it seems like the event risk is pretty big at the moment. "After yesterday's big ...