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On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... GDP growth and Singapore posting the lowest unemployment rate in five years. There are positive signs in Japan too. Retail sales came in higher than predicted in December and soon - with the yen's depreciation - exports are soon to follow. Thanks to ...

Good, better, best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... the ECB's late 2013 growth comeback. The better. China hard landing is dead. In addition to the improved data on retail sales, industrial production, exports, fixed asset investment we've seen so far, the latest HSBC flash PMI rose to 51.9 in January ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
... 100 index of top companies gained 0.36 per cent to 6,154.41, despite official data which revealed falling British retail sales in December. In Paris, the CAC 40 index slid 0.07 per cent to 3,741.58 points, while Frankfurt's DAX 30 index shed 0.43 per ...

Beggar me not my neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... since 1983 -- to 780,000 houses last year from 608,800 in 2011. This comes on the heels of better-than-expected US retail sales, car sales, ISM manufacturing and non-manufacturing reports and a more upbeat Beige book. But it's not only the biggest economy ...

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... same goes for China. More recent statistical and survey data - exports, manufacturing and non-manufacturing PMI, retail sales, industrial production - have improved towards the end of last year. Is that 'em Australians I can hear shouting 'hip, hip...'? ...

China's coming soft landing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
... observing yesterday that: "[China] growth in factory output was up 10.1% year-on-year at an eight month high in November. Retail Sales were also out and showed a 14.9% rise from a year ago". Time seems right, therefore, for a few more of Australia's ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... likely to continue into the beginning of next year. Data from the European Union's statistics agency Eurostat showed retail sales fell by 1.2 per cent in October from September, the third straight monthly decline and the largest since April. Retail sales ...

Uncertainly certain RBA cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... in "The Age" this morning - company profits down 2.9% and wages and salaries down 0.2% in the third quarter; flat retail sales in October; ANZ job ads down by 2.9%, AiG PMI down 1.6 points, house prices flat and TD Securities inflation measure down by ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... per cent, or 29 cents, to $8.52. Still to come on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics was due to publish retail sales data for October and figures on company profits for the September quarter at 1130 AEDT. Wall Street closed flat - while the ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... Group is scheduled to give a wealth strategy update and the National Australia Bank releases its quarterly online retail sales index. Qantas boss Alan Joyce is slated to address to the National Aviation Press Club, while Westpac chief executive Gail ...