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Good, better, best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... months -- rose by 0.5% in December after an unchanged reading in November. Betterer number 3. Markit's flash US manufacturing PMI improved to 56.1 in January from 54.0 in the previous month, indicating an acceleration in general business activity in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... New York. HONG KONG - Asian markets closed mixed despite a positive lead from Wall Street and news that Chinese manufacturing activity hit a two-year high in January. The yen retreated after a two-day rally as Japan logged a record trade deficit for ...

ANZ opens new branch in China

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2013
... customers. According to ANZ, Hangzhou is known for its private business and personal wealth. The city hosts a large manufacturing base and information technology industry and serves as the trade and logistics hub for China's East Coast. The economy in ...

Beggar me not my neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... last year from 608,800 in 2011. This comes on the heels of better-than-expected US retail sales, car sales, ISM manufacturing and non-manufacturing reports and a more upbeat Beige book. But it's not only the biggest economy in the world that's showing ...

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... 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 7.8% in December from 8.3% ...

FoFA reforms dilute platform pricing power: Centurion

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... "This would place AMP and the wealth arms of the banks in the business of advice, not retail platform or product manufacturing. This is a new cultural and business paradigm," he said. On the basis its good business practice to follow the money, Wrightson ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
... KONG - Asian markets mostly rose as dealers cheered an improvement in the US unemployment rate and another batch of manufacturing figures indicating China's economy is emerging from a slumber. Investors appeared unmoved by figures confirming Japan's ...

Something's gotta give

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... Street's reaction to the latest rhetoric on that cliff. The Institute of Supply Management (ISM) reported that its non-manufacturing index rose to 54.7 in November from 54.2 in the previous. This is good and supportive of the buy orders on Wall Street ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... time was needed and called for a fresh gathering next week. HONG KONG - Asian markets were mixed following weak US manufacturing data and fears over US talks aimed at averting its budget crisis known as the fiscal cliff. Tokyo fell 0.27 per cent, or ...

Uncertainly certain RBA cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... were in the midst on an uptrend and Wall Street was starting out strong. All because of the better-than expected manufacturing PMI report out of China - HSBC's measure moved into expansion territory for the first time in 13 months in November, the official ...