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Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... grow slowly, offering a slightly better assessment of the US economy than the grim picture depicted by other recent indicators. Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.04 per cent from 1.98 per cent late Tuesday, while that ...

Ideas count and Australia is up to 69,000

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... surfboards and sports drinks. These figures from IP Australia are welcome because trade mark applications are leading indicators of economic activity, especially with all the emphasis now on productivity growth and competing in a global information based ...

Coin toss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... win. Tails, I lose. I must admit I'm at a lost this time. I'd be lying if I tell you otherwise. This is because recent indicators out of America had been mixed at best. This was unlike the signals back during the GFC days when most where pointing to ...

Willing America into a dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... moment. There here means an American recession and perhaps a European one. I must admit that despite checking up on the indicators that the US National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee tracks to date US recessions over ...

Lost GPS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... can't blame those fearing that another recession is nigh - especially in the US of A. But on this matter, I checked the indicators the US National Bureaus of Economic Research (NBER) Business Cycle Dating Committee track to time America's recession. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... on Monday, ANZ's monthly job ad figures for July will be released and are expected to be soft, consistent with other indicators Housing finance figures come out on Tuesday. In equities on Monday, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank will report full year earnings ...

Now for the denominator

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... is determined. This is where the ISM manufacturing survey comes in - for moi, it's one of the most reliable leading indicators of America's economic trajectory. The correlation might not be perfect but it has stood the test of time - signalling turning ...

Boing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... back on the table sooner than you can say carbon tax. But back to the US, the latest jobs numbers - along with recent indicators that went boing over the past few weeks - reinforced our view that America just underwent a soft patch that resulted from ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... any big moves until Friday's release of the official US employment figure for June, one of the most closely-watched indicators of the health of the US economy, analysts said. Bond prices rose. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note fell to 3.10 per ...

Investors mine social networks for top tradings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... copying any other user's trades. "You can mirror all trades or selectively copy trades," Budzinski said. The social indicators built into OpenBook enable users to sort traders by win ratio, instruments traded or trader location. Clients can also divide ...