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Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
... rose by 1.3% in the year to April, down from 1.6% in March and lower than the expected 1.5% increase. Deflation at the factory gate suggests continued weakness in UK inflation. Producer prices fell by 0.7% in the year to April - better than consensus ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... economy may be losing momentum - or that the positive impact of a weaker US dollar still has to feed through into the factory sector -- came as the Fed begins its two-day FOMC meeting tonight. Orders for durable goods increased by 0.8% in March -- lower ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2016
... decline in core producer prices accelerated to 0.9% in March from 0.1% in the previous month. Lower price pressure at the factory gate is almost certain to be passed onto consumers, further nullifying the ECB's attempts to raise inflation in the region. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2016
... expectations for a US$46.2 trade shortfall. US exports increased by 1.0% over the month while imports went up by 1.3% US factory orders US factory orders dropped by a larger-than-expected 1.7% in February after a 1.2% (downwardly revised from 1.6%) increase ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... to slaughter a greater proportion of their herds. Markit flash US manufacturing PMI Markit's preliminary measure of US factory activity showed little improvement with the flash PMI printing at 51.4 in March, just a tad higher than February's final reading ...

Crouching services, contracting manufacturing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
... January to 49.0 in February. This is the lowest reading since November 2011 and marks the seventh straight month that factory activity in China had been contracting. Although still expanding (above 50), the non-manufacturing PMI declined from 53.5 in ...

Consumer (un)confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016
... month before - the fifth straight month of decline. No wonder, the Fed's also contemplating going negative lately. US factory activity could flatline, no probs for it accounts for only a small portion of the economy. Not so for consumers - they make ...

Small not feeling beautiful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
... Independent Business (NFIB) 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 ...

Jobs at risk from second machine age

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... recent media briefing in Sydney. "One of the key forces in play is the displacement of labour by machines. Some of this is factory automation or services moving online," Budden said from Singapore via the company's impressive new digital conferencing ...

Who spooked the greenback?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... just last night, the higher-than-expected 285K increase in jobless claims and the sharper-than-predicted 2.9% fall in new factory orders in December. Not surprisingly, Fed rhetoric has turned dovish. Fed Governor Lael Brainard's comment is the latest. ...