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Bad hair day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... lowest since 1995 when sales dropped to 3.83 mil units annualised. Bad. The Conference Board's index of leading economic indicators increased by 0.3 per cent in August. This is better than expectations for a 0.2 per cent rise and faster than the 0.1 ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... Chances are we'll be getting more of the same this week when we get updates on US housing, durable orders and leading indicators. Up, down? Where they go nobody knows. Sure, there are forecasts printed everywhere on cyberspace but given how many of them ...

Fortune cookie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... stick, Australia's growth has returned to its long-term potential of between 3.25 per cent and 3.5 per cent. Recent indicators even show that the growth in the Land Down Under might even go over its potential in the months ahead. Fortune cookie. Australia ...

CB thoughts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... bullish signal). Those relying on the market's fundamentals also don't know which way to jump. For as there are plenty of indicators and surveys foreboding of another recession, there are also lots pointing to brighter skies just over the horizon. Maybe ...

Fearing September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... blowing everything out of negative proportions, the underlying macro trend remains one of recovery. For sure economic indicators have weakened over the summer but an economic pause is typical in all recoveries. Just ask Alan Greenspan. What about Wall ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 AUG 2010
... was up 41 points at 4,389. In a quiet day in data on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases business indicators for the June quarter. Earnings season enters its penultimate day, with full year results due from Beach Energy Ltd and Infigen ...

Something for everyone

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... 5.1 in the previous month and lower than predictions of an increase to 7. Three-fecta. The index of leading economic indicators increased by 0.1 per cent in July after 0.2 per cent slide in the previous month. Close but no cigars. The July pick up was ...

Waiting to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
... recovery. Certainly growth has been slowing in the past few months, but it's far from heading into a double-dip. Positive indicators still trounce negative ones. For those arguing that the Fed should do more because its previous stimulus measures had ...

Squared

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
... gain. It appears that we've turned full circle from last year's applauding the good in less negative data to booing indicators that are not as positive as expected. Here's my but again. But in the overall scheme of things, there's really nothing much ...

Usual uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
... confidence has stabilised around the 50-point mark after hitting bottom at 25.3 in February last year. There'll be more indicators like these in the coming months -- indicators that could be interpreted as either positive or negative. Ben Bernanke said ...