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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
... Ordinaries fell 94.4 points to 4,995.9. NEW YORK - Wall Street receded again on Wednesday after a US Government report on retail sales and a jump in oil prices raised concerns on whether consumer spending could generate economic growth. The Commerce ...

Growth and inflation updates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... provide little guidance on the short term direction of US interest rates. Markets will focus on reports on advance retail sales, July CPI and the University of Michigan/Reuters consumer sentiment index and industrial production. Slow growth. US retail ...

Eyes on the labour market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2008
... employment and 4.2 percent jobless rate and follows the latest string of weak economic indicators. Negative news on retail sales, consumer sentiment and housing prices were followed by yesterday's housing finance report which showed that the number of ...

Fed does an RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... below the 50 mark which delineates expansion and contraction in the non-manufacturing sector. In Europe, Eurozone retail sales fell by 3.1 percent in the year to June, larger than expectations for a 1.3 percent drop and follow a 0.1 percent decline in ...

RBA rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
... already discounted the 4.5 percent CPI reading and instead are focused on more recent releases showing a contraction in retail sales, slowing private sector credit, falling consumer and business confidence and a decline in housing. Futures market pricing ...

Central bank watch

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... settings. Calls for the RBA to cut interest rates gained traction last week following a weaker-than-expected June retail sales report. The poor retail sales reading has re-ignited speculation of an RBA cut in interest rates even before the year is over ...

US growth disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2008
... yesterday's trading following Wall Street's rally overnight. Stocks closed higher in spite of negative news on Australian retail sales, pointing to a slowing in domestic spending going forward. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that ...

More Fed pump-priming

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... decline in seven years and reflects the negative impact of rising inflation and the slowing global economy. Australian retail sales are due out this morning. Market expectations centre on a flat outcome in the month of June, down from May's 0.7 percent ...

Some Needed Good News

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2008
... market. Turning to Europe, tight lending standards, rising inflation and slower economic growth helped push the UK retail sales index down to its lowest level in 25 years and has driven down June mortgage approvals to a record low of 36,000 from 41,000 ...

Who's next to confess?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2008
... anything, I think they are picking up a little steam,' Today, markets will receive updates on Japanese employment and retail sales. Japan's jobless rate is expected to remain at 4.0 percent in June and the job-to-applicants ratio is expected to fall ...