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It's the twit not the taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013

Onto the next worry: Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2013

On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... again even better, all five components of the index - new orders, employment, production, supplier deliveries and inventories - all printed above the 50 expansion/contraction line. Told you QE works (didn't I Stuart?)... or rather QEs work. Now everybody's ...

Time to fear?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
... have no fear there are silver linings in the report. The dip was due mainly to reduce defense spending and reduced inventories. The things that matter, consumer spending and investment in housing, in factories and in equipments were strong. So too was ...

Uncertainly certain RBA cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... from 51.7 in the previous month, led by big falls in new orders (50.3 from 54.2), employment (48.4 from 52.1) and inventories (45.0 from 50.0). According to the ISM report, "Comments from the panel this month generally indicate that the second half of ...

Diamond in the region

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... 2.7% annualised growth from 2.0% (which means a stronger starting point for the fourth quarter economy) -- and bad - inventories contributed 0.77 percentage point to that growth (which means businesses have a large stockpile of unsold goods which means ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... $21.85. The energy sector was performing strongly, following strong gains in crude oil prices amid reports of low inventories. Oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum had increased by 30 cents to $30.72, and Santos lifted 10 cents to $10.62. In equities ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2012
... prices have fallen sharply following recent gains after figures showed a much larger-than-expected increase in crude inventories in top global consumer the United States. BHP Billiton was 27 cents higher at $35.37, Rio Tinto was 49 cents higher at $66.99 ...

Upside surprises to surprise on the upside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... higher index reading. There's action behind this as evidenced by the US Commerce Department's report that business inventories increased by a higher-than-expected 0.7% in January - the largest since October. Increased inventories provide a positive contribution ...

Dead calm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... estimated 2.5%. Bad headline but good prospects. This is because the reduced growth estimate was due to a bigger drag from inventories. The re-estimation showed inventories subtracted 1.6 percentage points from third quarter growth, up from the initial ...