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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 ...

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 ...