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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... shipments, a 54.6% decline in mining exports and a 2.6% fall in non-automotive sales. Shipments of agricultural and manufacturing products rose by 26.6% and 0.9%, respectively. Imports increased by 2.2% in the year to February led by increased purchases ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... international demand provided incentives for farmers to slaughter a greater proportion of their herds. Markit flash US manufacturing PMI Markit's preliminary measure of US factory activity showed little improvement with the flash PMI printing at 51.4 ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2016
... this month. Weak global demand, along with Brexit uncertainty, will continue to provide headwinds for the country's manufacturing sector but would be partly offset by the recent weakness in the British currency. Taiwan export orders Taiwan's export orders ...

Western AM says credit to be positive in 2016

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2016
... slow. China's government has the tools, will and flexibility to navigate a soft landing as it transitions from a manufacturing/export economy to a more consumer driven/service economy. And most major central banks remain accommodative, which is a strong ...

Market confidence marches in March

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2016
... overview of the latest state of global activity. "JP Morgan Global Composite PMI gives an overview of the global manufacturing and services sectors. It is based on non-opinion based monthly surveys of over 16,000 purchasing executives from 32 of the ...

With pretty numbers like these, who needs a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... improved las month. Supplier deliveries, input prices and selling prices retreated. Similarly, AiG's Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI) accelerated to 53.5 in February - the highest reading since July 2010 and the eight straight month of above-50 ...

Crouching services, contracting manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
Economic slowdown on a roll. This is the message from the latest disappointing readings from China's official manufacturing and non-manufacturing purchasing managers' indices (PMIs). The manufacturing PMI fell deeper into contraction (below 50) from ...

Financial services adding more to economy than mining

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
... billion to the economy or $5,881 for every Australian. The industry exceeded all mining activities by $532 million, manufacturing by more than $40 billion and healthcare and social assistance by more than $35 billion. The report also shows financial ...

Bad news on global activity and prices is the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... become self-fulfilling engendering more positives. A virtuous cycle, if you will. And if Markit Economics' latest manufacturing PMI updates on three of the world's biggest economies are anything to go by, we can surely do with some virtue of positive ...

US growth stable due to resilient consumer-base

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016
... to the labour supply around the world and of course global companies tried to move in to employ those people in manufacturing. So there was a one-time relocation of global manufacturing from the West to the East. "To make that work, you had to build ...