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There's the good news and the good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2014

Big fall one day, up and away the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014

Good, bad: all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2013
... way...and sooner-than-you can spell December. Never mind that a meaty chunk of the third quarter growth was due to inventories. Though I still maintain that most of the build-up in inventories is unwanted because of the weakness in private consumption ...

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 ...