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Confusion in the inflection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... bps, it is moving in the right direction. These writings show that US consumer confidence is returning. The Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary consumer sentiment index increased to 67.9 in May from 65.1 in April. This is higher than expectations ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... the US tonight. These include core retail sales, the producer purchase price index, retail sales and the preliminary University of Michigan consumer sentiment reading. "There's a fair bit of nervousness ahead of those," Mr Potter said. Resources stocks ...

Search for equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
... with consumers reducing their spending and businesses concerned over the economic outlook. The preliminary Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index fell to 57.5 in October from 70.3 in the previous month -- the largest point-decline on ...

This Week's Movers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
... Meanwhile, core PPI is forecast to increase to 3.7 per cent from 3.5 per cent in July. The preliminary reading of the University of Michigan consumer confidence index is anticipated to go up to 64 in September from 63 in August. Retail sales for August ...

Growth and inflation updates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... short term direction of US interest rates. Markets will focus on reports on advance retail sales, July CPI and the University of Michigan/Reuters consumer sentiment index and industrial production. Slow growth. US retail sales are expected to decline ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
... dragged down shares of a wide range of multinational companies, including IBM and United Technologies. The Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers said its preliminary index of confidence fell sharply in April to its lowest level since 1982 ...

Virtual bank collapse a warning to online world

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2007
... in place, there would be no policing of them." Robert Bloomfield, professor of management and accounting at Cornell University in Michigan, a noted commentator on Second Life, said he didn't see anything fundamentally wrong with the Second Life economy ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2007
... activity with minimum wages rising by up to 17 per cent in Shenzhen about 9 per cent in Shanghai in 20006. In the US the University of Michigan consumer sentiment index decreased to a score of 88.8 in March having risen to 91.3 in February. The index ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2007
... cent fall in January to now make them 38 per cent lower than a year ago. This places them at the level of 1990-91. The University of Michigan consumer Confidence Index fell from 96.9 to 93.3 during January although it is still at a relatively high level ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2007
... cent on an annual basis following the 0.2 per cent fall in November to be the first consecutive falls since 2001. The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index increased to 98 in January after as score of 91.7 in December further suggesting that ...