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Small not feeling beautiful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
... last night is the latest addition to the run of disappointing stats - industrial production, factory orders, ISM manufacturing and non-manufacturing, to name a few - released so far this year. The NFIB small business optimism index declined to 93.9 in ...

Healthcare needs flagged as investment opportunity

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... didn't matter because the industry was rapidly growing anyway. Toth added about two-thirds of businesses in the manufacturing and services area have told the Australian Industry Group that "they're expecting better sales in 2016 and better conditions ...

Who spooked the greenback?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... this year. But US dollar strength is starting to negatively impact the US economy as evidenced by the latest ISM manufacturing and non-manufacturing surveys, durable goods orders, and just last night, the higher-than-expected 285K increase in jobless ...

Aussie economy rebalancing okay

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
... GDP growth in this country all the way through until early 2017. That will support employment, that will support manufacturing, that will support brown goods and white goods and things we intend to put in new construction." However Haslem said there ...

US dollar downed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2016
... the report - business activity; new orders; employment -- exhibiting a similar weakening. This followed the ISM manufacturing survey (reported earlier this week) which printed at a lower than expected 48.2 in January - the fourth straight month of contraction ...

Not so durable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016
... 1.8% drop in industrial production in December and the negative lead from the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) manufacturing index that fell further away from the 50 expansion/contraction line - down to 48.2 in December from 48.6 in the previous ...

Time running out to book places for Chief Economists Forum

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
... boom to growth led by other sectors like tourism and housing. The currency and RBA will also feature, as will the manufacturing and services sectors. We'll also hear forecasts for stock markets and thoughts about asset allocation." Registrations for ...

China's low-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
... measure in December marked the 46th straight month of falling prices, underscoring the overcapacity in the country's manufacturing and industrial sectors (as well as falling commodity prices). These augur bad tidings for the rest of the world as it would ...

Road of no return

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... to the fourth quarter economy as firms run down their stocks. More worrying is its implication for industrial and manufacturing production - slow, at best, until inventories hit painters - a fact we just saw from the weakening Markit US PMI manufacturing ...

ACBC adds further XTBs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
... listed companies in the following sectors - banks, mining, property, transport and infrastructure, entertainment, manufacturing, telecommunications, airlines, airports, diversified industrials, retailing, energy, and consumer goods. "Corporate bonds ...