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Fed gets green light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... consumer expectations index to 103.3 from the five-month low reading of 99.6. This suggests that the increase in business inventories (also released overnight) is of the "wanted" kind - i.e. businesses are deliberately building up stocks in anticipation ...

Stronger growth sans inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
... (59.5 from 57.5) - the US dollar's recent weakness should give this added strength going forward; and contracting inventories (down to 49.0 from 51.5) - suggesting increased production as stocks are replenished. The ISM report, again, highlighted the ...

Economic growth slows to 1.7pct but not as bad as feared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... biggest subtraction from growth (0.7 percentage points). Also telegraphed ahead of the National Accounts' release, inventories added most to first quarter GDP growth - adding 0.4 percentage points. While household consumption added 0.3 percentage points ...

Five minutes of sunshine tomorrow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
... March quarter from 26.4% in the December 2016 quarter. Another good news in the report is the sharp 1.2% increase in inventories in the first quarter of this year - one that should provide a positive contribution to GDP growth. However, there's also ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
... November from -7 in October) and sales (11 from 1). Capital outlays eased 3 points but to a still robust 24 reading and inventories were flat at -4. China economic activity The latest updates on China's major economic indicators show that fears of a ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016
... percentage point contribution in the preliminary estimate), net exports contributing less (0.3 pp from 0.5 pp) and inventories subtracting more (-0.3 pp from -0.1pp).

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 DEC 2016
... UK's (2.3%). The details of the Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) report show only household consumption and inventories provided positive contributions to growth - 0.3 percentage points and 0.1, respectively - to growth in the September quarter. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016
... new orders (59.5), sales (53.5), exports (55.9), deliveries (52.7), production (53.5) and employment (52.3). While inventories gained 0.3 points to a reading of 46.3 in November, it remained in contraction. However, when seen alongside the expansion ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2016
... investment (-0.15 pp from -0.09) and government consumption and investment (0.05 from 0.09). The contribution from inventories was downgraded to 0.49 percentage points from 0.61. But this is positive news. When assessed together with the strength in ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2016
... increased to a reading of minus 0.08 in October from minus 0.23 in September and minus 0.72 in August. Sales, orders & inventories contributed minus 0.01 to the headline index in October, up from minus 0.03 in September. Employment-related indicators ...