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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 ...

Raising rates on soybeans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2016
... to growth in the June quarter. How would higher interest rates affect consumer spending? This would flow down into inventories - whether companies would continue re-stocking or de-stock their shelves. Inventories contributed 0.6 pps to growth in the ...

Oil's rally could slip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2016
... game is over. OPEC has effectively abandoned its free market policy set in train nearly two years ago. Global oil inventories are far too high - in the view of some producers - and they aren't being worked off nearly fast enough. To speed up the process ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... reading. The index's four main components - production, employment, personal consumption & housing and sales, orders & inventories - all declined over the month. The latest reading "suggests that growth in national economic activity was slightly below ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... minus 3.6; backlog orders down to minus 15 from plus 9; and, "The indicators for unfilled orders, delivery times, and inventories have been negative for most of this year". UK retail sales Back in the shops. UK retail sales jumped by 1.4% in the month ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2016
... decline and a reversal of April's 0.5% advance due largely to a 2.6% drop in shipments. The 0.4% increase in (unwanted) inventories over the month suggests further weakness ahead. Year-on-year, industrial production fell for a sixth straight month, decreasing ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... interest rate reduction and expectations for more. Likewise, while the better than expected 0.4% increase in business inventories in the March quarter would contribute to first quarter GDP growth - due out tomorrow and expected to grow by 0.6% over the ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... +11); capacity utilisation (down 24 points to - 6 from +18). The volume of new orders dropped from +18 to 0 in May. Inventories of finished goods and raw materials went up by 5 points to a +9 reading and 10 points to +25, respectively in May - suggesting ...