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Big Ben brings in the heavy guns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... is at the rate most consistent with its dual mandate, the Committee agreed today to increase policy accommodation by purchasing additional agency mortgage-backed securities at a pace of $40 billion per month. The Committee also will continue through ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... tech-rich Nasdaq gained 41.52 points, or 1.33 per cent, to 3,155.83. The Federal Reserve announced a new program of purchasing $US40 billion ($A38 billion) a month in mortgage-backed bonds aiming at dragging down long-term interest rates. It also pledged ...

Defensive investors may have traded risks

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... pay a steady pension income. Defensive investing should also contribute to maintaining 'real' - or after-inflation - purchasing power," he said. Few retail investors have a clear idea of how to appropriately build the large but overlooked defensive part ...

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 ...