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Recycled fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 NOV 2010
... US stats out indicate that America is progressing onwards to a much stronger recovery. Last week's improved consumer confidence report adds to the better-than-expected results on employment, retail sales, ISM manufacturing and non-manufacturing reports. ...

Punting on next week

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... S&P/Case-Shiller index showed property values rose by 1.7 per cent over the same period. And who cares about consumer confidence? The Conference Board's index of consumer confidence index increased to 50.2 in October - more than market expectations for ...

Planners urged to address ethics

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... Meanwhile, AFA chief executive, Richard Klipin said the industry body will unveil new initiatives to boost consumer confidence in the advice sector at the AFA National Convention which opens on the Gold Coast this Sunday. The conference will also address ...

Meaning to the meaningless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... treading water while they wait for the US Federal Reserve and its QE2. Tomorrow's data on US retail sales, consumer confidence, Empire State manufacturing and the budget statement should provide better indications if we are, in fact, going to get QE2 ...

QE2 to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
... really as weak as some purport it to be. True, this is borne out by some economic data such as payrolls and consumer confidence but there are also some - the ISM manufacturing and non-manufacturing indices, among others - that indicate that, albeit slow ...

Wonderfully wrong September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... record 440 basis points." And American consumers are losing confidence. The Conference Board reported that it's consumer confidence index declined to 48.5 in September - the lowest level since February, lower than expectations for a reading of 52.1 and ...

Same song

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... from US data released less than a week ago before they were tortured to confess that a double-dip is coming? Consumer confidence, retail spending and consumer prices all came in better than expected when they were released last Friday the 13th. "It's ...

Torturing the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... double-dip is coming. Take for instance the Friday the 13th's releases. The Reuters/University of Michigan consumer confidence index rose to a 69.6 in August from 67.8 in the previous month. The fact that this was greater than market expectations for ...

FSC launches trustmark for consumers

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... The FSC trustmark was launched today by John Brogden, chief executive of the FSC, and is aimed at boosting consumer confidence in dealing with FSC members, which also includes brands such as Perpetual, BT and MLC. "Like the heart foundation tick denoting ...

Boring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
... reporting season..." There was also good news out of Europe last night. Crisis? What crisis? Eurozone business and consumer confidence rose to 101.3 in July - the highest since March 2008 - from 99 in the previous month. Likewise, strong export growth ...