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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
The Australian market looks set to open higher, after wall overnight closed up two per cent as upbeat US consumer spending figures lifted hopes that economic growth will pick up and Hurricane Irene caused less damage than feared. At 0714 AEST on Tuesday ...

US housing market needs renovation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... retail spending is growing only 0.2% year on year, the flattest growth rate in years. Trouble is, given the way consumer spending drives the US economy, the result is that until this starts to improve not much else will. And some people think Australia ...

Nothing happened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... grew by 82% and net profits by 125%. Better, Apple expects an even better fourth quarter. So is the American consumer spending or not? And then there's the piece of Fedspeak thrown in to justify the market's 'sour' mood last night. Philly Fed President ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... the local market had followed Wall Street down in the wake of downbeat US economic data, released overnight. Consumer spending in the US dropped 0.2 per cent in June, its first decline since September 2009. "There's a bit of blood on the floor," Mr Heffernan ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... with a statement, which was not as concerned about inflation as expected." Data released overnight showed US consumer spending dropped 0.2 per cent in June, the first decline since September 2009. "Uncertainty about the global outlook continues to weigh ...

S.O.S

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... investors doubted whether Big Benny's second half rebound is coming. Last night's US Commerce report showing that consumer spending declined by 0.2% in June - the first fall in two years - and incomes rose by only 0.1% -- the smallest increase since ...

It's a deal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... that the US economy contracted by a deeper 5.1% during the recession of Q4 2007 to Q2 2009 instead of 4.1%. Consumer spending - that which accounts for 70% of the US economy - hardly budged in the second quarter with growth of only 0.1% annualised. And ...

Other play factors

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... you that RBA Governor Glen Stevens is losing many nights of sleep over them. And not only these, Australia's consumer spending conundrum is also racking his brains I assume. "Will the 'good old days' for consumption growth of the 1995-2005 period be ...

Net-net, it's still good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... with. You worry about US unemployment? That will grow when government cannot pay its bills. You worry about consumer spending? That will drop when government workers are laid off and/or social security payments don't get paid. Having rid of the fog ...

Cautious bulls predict solid earnings season

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... The stimulus measures announced by the Government to offset the effect of the carbon tax would not lead to the consumer spending splurge that the cash payment in the global financial crisis did, he said. "It won't be great cheer for the discretionary ...