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Australia's big bro

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
... continued strength in the Chinese economy. Not to mention, last Friday's report of a stronger Chinese manufacturing purchasing managers index in September. You want to know where the Australian dollar and Australian interest rates and the outlook for ...

The good smoke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... Bloomberg, "Naoko Ogata, a senior researcher at the Japan Research Institute, a Tokyo-based think tank, predicts last-minute purchasing of cigarettes this month will boost consumer spending in the quarter ending September 30 by 0.2 to 0.6 percentage ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... dollar? I linked this in because of a recent Bloomberg report that the "Aussie is 27 per cent too expensive" based on purchasing power parity. This means that the Australian dollar should be trading at around US$0.6843 against the greenback instead of ...

Torturing the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... increases in the price of autos and petrol. Yeah right! As if US consumers get their cars and gasoline for free and not purchasing them out of their income. No wait, I confess you're right a double-dip is coming because retail sales maybe up 5.5 per ...

Running of the bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... income surged by 31 per cent in the second quarter. There was not so good news out of China. HSBC China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index slid to 49.4 in July from 50.4 in June. Below 50! That spells contraction. But this is the contraction China ...

Boring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... due out tonight... and they could contain nasty surprises. US real GDP, the employment cost index (ECI), the Chicago Purchasing managers survey and the University of Michigan consumer sentiment index are all set for release this evening. At least we ...

House call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... good news puzzle. It was more than "experts" expectations for a gain to 310,000 units. It suggests that buyers may be purchasing property again. After all, the Commerce Department report also notes that sales in all regions -except for the West - increased. ...

Unusually certain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
... decline. Weak US growth unusually certain? European growth, too, looks unusually certain. The Markit Economics composite purchasing managers index of services and manufacturing in the Eurozone rose to 56.7 in July from 56 in the previous month. This ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... hour. Economic news didn't offer investors much incentive to buy. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing executives, said growth in services businesses slowed last month. Its services index fell to 53.8 from 55.4 in May. Economists ...

Every recovery starts jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... leading economic index for China to show a rise of only 0.3 per cent -- the slightest gain in five months. China's purchasing managers' index (PMI) fell from 53.9 in May to 52.1 -- weaker than median analyst forecasts of 53.1. Certainly, China's slowing ...