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Risk of indigestion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... concerned over the pace of the acceleration. But you have been writing positive commentaries on the market and economic indicators even before consensus picked it up and ran with it, you ask? Well...yes...but. But I worry that the shift in equity market ...

The good news in good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... attempts, the gains of the past five weeks appear to be on a more solid footing. With every activity and sentiment indicators and statistics coming in one worse than the previous tabulation, it was not surprising that the market's attempt to break the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... stabilizing economy will pay off. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 25.57, or 0.3 per cent, to 8,057.81. Broader stock indicators advanced. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 2.17, or 0.3 per cent, to 858.73, and the Nasdaq composite index rose ...

Green sprouts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... consider this. While times remain tough, there are emerging indications that the worse may be behind us. Sure lagging indicators such as employment will remain gloomy. But they are there to remind us how bad things had been. Leading indicators such as ...

Pocketing the change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... sales data reported monthly by about 75 US general merchandise and apparel retailers. These are significant partial indicators that show US consumer spending - which comprises around 70 per cent of the economy - maybe starting to stir and add to the ...

She'll be right mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
... lost in March that took the US unemployment rate to a 25-year high of 8.5 per cent. Jobs and employment are lagging indicators and the US economy appears to have already reached an inflection point given the release of some positive indicators over the ...

GFC Problem solved

... markets' rally could be standing on stronger legs. I noted in my report yesterday the improvement in some US economic indicators. Last night there was more. US factory orders increased by 1.8 per cent in February - better than market expectations for ...

Make love not leverage

... that the rate of contraction in manufacturing activity has begun to slow. This index is one of the reliable leading indicators of the US economy. It fell below 50 in December 2007 - later timed by NBER as the start of the US recession. The National Association ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... remove bad assets from their books and also welcoming a report showing a surprising increase in home sales. Major stock indicators surged more than six per cent, including the Dow. The Treasury Department's bad asset cleanup program would tap money from ...

Governance indices create illusions: study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
Indices that seek to describe a company's governance credentials through quantitative measures are poor indicators of future investment returns. A major paper published in the Columbia Law Review, 'The Promise and Peril of Corporate Governance Indices' ...