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Sick of swines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... government is testing 19 in all? Now for the good news. Americans are feeling cheerier. The Conference Board's consumer confidence index rose to 39.2 in April - the highest since November last year - against 26.9 in the previous month and expectations ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... lower as worries about the spread of swine flu and a weak banking system offset a survey showing rising US consumer confidence. Trading was cautious as world health officials raised their alert level and the death toll from swine flu reached more than ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... strong holdings at the end of the first quarter, which ended on Tuesday. The gains came despite more bleak US consumer confidence and housing data. Consumer confidence was flat in March, according to research group The Conference Board, while home prices ...

Future still belongs to super

Despite record low returns and plummeting consumer confidence in super, the sector is still on track to grow into a multi-trillion dollar savings pool, just at a slower rate than previously estimated. Key research groups have released projections for ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... Zealand-based discount retailer The Warehouse Group, ten per owned by Woolworths, said it expects no improvement in consumer confidence after reporting a 24 per cent drop in interim net profit. Warehouse Group added seven cents, or 2.67 per cent, to ...

Baracking for the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
... this. Just hours before Obama delivered his speech, the Conference Board released a report showing that US consumer confidence fell to 25 in February - the lowest since data started to be collected 41 years ago. And as he was delivering his speech, reports ...

No bad news is no news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... negative spin on yesterday's Australian jobs report given the dire leads provided by retreating business and consumer confidence and continued fall in the ANZ job ads survey. In fact, because of these warning beacons, financial markets penciled in a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... post profits in a difficult recession. The major indices briefly stumbled after the Conference Board said its Consumer Confidence Index in January slipped to its lowest level since the reading's inception in 1967. At settlement, the Dow Jones Industrial ...

Bad tidings we bring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... will continue to weaken as the disappearance of employment positions spill over into household income and consumer confidence. The US consumer sector has already been retrenching - both by force and on its own volition - and reducing its use of borrowed ...

Filled half-empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... they argue that the negative wealth effect brought about by collapsing stock markets would continue to sap consumer confidence and therefore, consumer spending and business investment in the coming quarters. These are valid arguments. But we see it differently. ...