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Divergent business confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2017
... lower (all else unchanged)..." Forward orders increased from three to four last month driven by a large increase in manufacturing orders that was offset by a sharp decline in retail orders. While trading and profitability dipped by one point each - to ...

SSGA fund divests tobacco and weapons

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2017
... companies, 60% of which are US-listed and include Apple, Microsoft and Nestle. Companies specifically involved in manufacturing tobacco, cluster bombs, landmines, chemical and biological weapons, and depleted uranium weapons have been excluded. Established ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... anticipating a decreased in income dropped to 7.8% from 9.5%. Not only is consumer sentiment going onwards and upwards, the manufacturing sector is too. The ISM manufacturing index rose to a reading of 58.8 in August from 56.3 in the previous month. ...

Emerging markets need a rethink

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... markets funds out there, most of them have the same stuff: they all own Samsung, they all own Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. And if you look at the index, China, South Korea and Taiwan make up almost 60% of the benchmark. The problem is ...

Insurers require urgent start-up collaborations

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... in point, he said. When examining the insurance value chain and all the pieces involved in designing, selling and manufacturing covers, Dobson said: "I look at the distribution piece and cannot help but think that's the part that's going to be reimagined ...

No follow through

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
... it is also shoring up domestic activity. This is underscored by the Markit/CIPS PMI survey indices - composite, manufacturing and services -- which, despite lingering Brexit uncertainties, have remained sharply above the 50 expansion/contraction line ...

RBI succumbs to low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
... composite PMI output index fell sharply to 46 in July - contraction level - from 52.7 in the previous month. The manufacturing PMI dropped to 47.9 last month (the lowest level since February 2009) from 50.9 in June and the services PMI business activity ...

Flashes: activity expansion and moderating inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2017
... estimates hasn't altered from the prevailing dynamics in the world's biggest economies of continued expansion in manufacturing and service sector activity and low or easing inflation. Markit's flash US composite PMI output index accelerated to a reading ...

Business conditions return to pre-GFC levels

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
... rebounding". This is consistent with the Australian Industry Group's (AiG) performance indices reports that showed the manufacturing (up 0.2 to 55.0 in June), services (3.3 to 54.8) and construction (down 0.7 to 56.0) sectors in solid expansion terri ...

Hawkish central banks? Not the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
... reading of 53.3 in June - the best reading since August 2015 and the 9th consecutive month of expansion - while the manufacturing sector recorded its 10th straight month of expansion with a final reading of 52.4 in June. But as Nikkei noted in its report ...