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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2013
... Street but after gains on European markets following encouraging eurozone data. The Markit Eurozone Composite Purchasing Managers Index logged 50.4 points, above the 50-mark signalling growth, and a bigger-than-expected rise, after posting 48.7 points ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... Composite Index jumped 31.24 (0.92 per cent) to 3,434.49. The monthly Institute for Supply Management reading purchasing managers index rose to 50.9 in June from a contraction reading of 49.0 in May. At the same time, the ISM showed manufacturing employment ...

Fear is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... March. There's Moody's downgrade of the UK's triple-A credit rating to AA1. There's China's manufacturing purchasing managers' index which fell to its lowest reading in four months in February. And yes, there's also the simmering currency war. We can ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... Beijing released official figures on Friday showing manufacturing activity had seen a slip last month. The purchasing managers index (PMI) came in at 50.4, down from December's 50.6 and below the 51.0 forecast by economists. WELLINGTON - The NZX50 stood ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... intra-day trade. Hong Kong shed 0.15 per cent, or 36.20 points, to 23,598.9. In China HSBC said its preliminary purchasing managers index (PMI) rose to 51.9 in January from 51.5 in December, its highest since January 2011. WELLINGTON - The NZX50 Index ...

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... in third quarter real GDP growth to 3.1% (annualised) and certainly not with the recent improvement in its purchasing managers index - both manufacturing and non-manufacturing - the housing sector and labour market (the unemployment rate declined to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... 2013, and added that deep austerity measures would be extended by a year to 2017-18. Meanwhile, the eurozone Purchasing Managers Index (PMI), a leading indicator compiled by the London-based Markit research firm, showed a upwardly revised score of 46.5 ...

Good not great but getting better

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... in China, Markit Economics' PMI updates across several Asian countries also improved last month. Taiwan's purchasing managers index jumped to its highest level since June, it accelerated for the first time in four months in India, increased in South ...

Market wrap Early AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... adding to renewed optimism that the world's No.2 economy is beginning to awake from its recent slumber. The purchasing managers' index (PMI) stood at 50.2 last month, better than 49.8 in September, according to official figures. A PMI reading above 50 ...

Fed decides not to decide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... today's stories of gloom. Things are improving there... Wen's getting what Wen wants. HSBC China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index climbed to a 3-month high of 49.1 from 47.9 in September. And when Wen gets what Wen wants (as we've always claimed) ...