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First of three (or more) coming next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... evolve in line with our expectations". The latest February payrolls numbers aren't out yet but the lead from the ISM manufacturing and non-manufacturing surveys portends another strong result following January's stronger-than-expected 227K addition. ...

Forward thinking must underpin advice: Vanguard

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
... In particular, Davis noted the rise in the populist belief that globalism was the cause of a global decrease in manufacturing, urging advisers to realise that the strong acceleration of technological change is the true underlining cause. According to ...

What a drag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAR 2017
... followed October's 13% decline. The gathering synchronisation in global economic growth, along with strengthening manufacturing activity conditions in China - underscored by the higher than expected official and Caixin manufacturing PMI for February ...

Good credit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
... 70 months, pushed higher by a sharp improvement in the services sector (to 55.6 from 53.7) and a pick-up in the manufacturing sector (to 55.5 from 55.2). Last night's credit figures provide further indications of this growth impetus. While as expected ...

A good set of numbers (almost)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2017
... (31.1% from 7.6%); other services (20.2% from 21.4%); rental, hiring and real estate services (11.3% from -0.5%); manufacturing (11.0% from -3.1%); electricity, gas, water and waste services (9.6% from -7.9%) and information media and telecommunications ...

A tale of three PMIs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2017
... 54.3 in February - the lowest in two months - from 55.8 in the previous month. This resulted from declines in the manufacturing and service sectors over the month - both of which were lower than market expectations. The Markit flash manufacturing PMI ...

A rate rise on the ides of March?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... 157,000 addition in December and beating market expectations for a gain of 157,000. The sharp jump in the Empire State manufacturing index provides an early clue to this upside surprise. The general business conditions index surged to 18.7 in February ...

Sunny days not expected to last

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... the fastest rate of increase in six months. The details of the report were also sun-shiny ones. Orders from the manufacturing sector continued to increase, up 1.0% in December following a strong 9.8% upturn in the previous month, while non-manufacturing ...

Dwindling reserves

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2017
... recorded in the previous month. Still, this is the lowest reading since September 2016, with easing recorded in both manufacturing (51.0 in January from 51.9 in December 2016) and the services sector (53.1 from 53.4).

Five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... conditions(up to 20 from 10 in November) and profitability (up to 14 from 6) - largely in the wholesale and transport & manufacturing industries (manufacturing and retail declined) - but employment remained unchanged at low reading of 1 in December. ...