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Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... the integral component in well, rescuing drowning economies... and the euro itself. There is America. Recent economic indicators have been disappointing - most notably, the June drop in the ISM manufacturing index - one of the most reliable leading indicators ...

Uncertainly good or bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... here we are, still caught between the good and the bad news... still clueless on which of these snippets of partial indicators ultimately dominate the global outlook. This, in itself creates uncertainty. The very thing that market hates. ============ ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... amid renewed concern about China's slowing growth. Investors are nervous ahead of the release of key Chinese economic indicators this week, with comments by Premier Wen Jiabao at the weekend adding to the concerns, which overshadowed positive news in ...

Not ugly enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... Average hourly earnings growth continues to improve - up 0.3% in June from 0.2% in the previous month. Leading hiring indicators also improved: the average workweek increased from 34.5 hours last month from 34.4 in May and temp hirings rose by 25,000 ...

IMF issues buy order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... International Monetary Fund (IMF) and its regular updates of its growth projections. It is one of my fave contrarian indicators because almost always when the IMF goes cutting (growth), equities go rising. Last night, the IMF nicked a few points off ...

Tell that to the marines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... at the start of 2012 before the euro crisis spook the bejeesus out of all of us. More likely the weakness in the PMI indicators resulted from "the euro would implode" scare that - in the name of self-preservation -- froze consumers into spending, banks ...

Dressing the windows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... heroes to existing and potential clients this way. This is the fact. Not the BS that a couple of positive economic indicators have bi-handedly (there's two of 'em remember) changed the course of global growth and turned market sentiment around.

Fundamentally challenged

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
A day late and a penny short. Had the stumble in equity and commodity markets and the grim indicators released overnight happened while the Federal Open Market Committee was still in session, Big Ben would have announced something beyond extending the ...

"If it becomes necessary" time?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... no ors, and no buts to find, it's getting ugly out there. Oh yes Virginia, the combed over look ugly as events and indicators of the past week suggest that we are coming into, if not already in, a perfect storm. These indicators reveal that the festering ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... down 58 points at 4,012. In economic news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases its business indicators for March 2012 quarter, the Melbourne Institute's inflation gauge for May comes out as do the ANZ job advertisements series ...