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Chief economist update: Turns out Brexit was heaven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... markedly in some cases, and investment intentions appear to have recovered." This was underscored by the sharp turnaround in the IHS/CIPS UK Composite PMI index to 53.3 in January - a 16-month high - after four months of below 50 readings (indicating ...

Chief economist update: Different contagion, same fiscal policy divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... Consumer confidence dropped by five points - the largest on record - to -11.6 in March from -6.6 in the previous month. The IHS/Markit Eurozone composite index dove to an all-time low of 29.7 in March from 51.4 in February, paced by the near halving ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 eating into jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... time, the optimism will last. Perhaps... perhaps... perhaps. They better work given the deterioration in US economic activity. IHS/Markit's flash US composite PMI dropped to a fresh low of 40.5 in March (from 49.6 in the previous month) as manufacturing ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 solves overtourism in Europe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... Croatia. This would certainly reverse the budding improvement in the Eurozone economy. Just before the virus broke out in Europe, IHS Markit reported that the Eurozone Composite PMI increased to 51.6 in February 2020 from 51.3 in the previous month -- ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone negative rates a failure?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2019
... the Markit Eurozone composite PMI index for December 2017 surging to its highest reading since February 2011 According to IHS/Markit (at the time): "The upturn continued to be led by manufacturing, where the headline Eurozone PMI rose to its highest ...

Northern Trust chair defends Woodford loan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2019
... for valuing the portfolio of Woodford Patient Capital Trust with the support of an independent valuation firm, in this case IHS Markit.

Chief economist update: Super Mario's last hurrah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... the "rising threat of protectionism" has risen further with the escalation of the US-China trade war. The recently-released IHS Markit Eurozone manufacturing PMI survey gave credence to Draghi's statement at the July press conference that the economic ...

Chief economist update: This land is ours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2019
... March 2018 quarter and the slowest annual growth rate since the September 2009 quarter (-1.7%). Forward indications from the IHS Markit Hong Kong PMI survey point to continued deterioration in the SAR. The HK PMI dropped from a reading of 47.8 in June ...

Chief economist update: BOE flips tightening bias to easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... could be intensifying. The latest surveys point to no growth in UK output." The BOE chief's statement is supported by the IHS Markit/CIPS UK Construction Total Activity Index dropping to a decade-low reading of 43.1 in June from 48.6 in the previous ...

Chief economist update: ECB to leave no policy tool unturned

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2019
... September 2017 quarter. While there are nascent signs of stability over economic activity... According to Markit Economics, "The IHS Markit Eurozone Composite PMI rose to 52.1 in June, according to the preliminary 'flash' estimate, up from 51.8 ...