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Tell that to the marines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... (ISM) index fell to 49.7% in June from 53.5 in the previous month and expectations for a 52.3 reading. America's manufacturing sector is contracting. So too is China's. China's official PMI dipped to 50.2 last month from 50.4 in May. While this is ahead ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... Australian market looks set to open higher despite a mixed performance on Wall Street overnight after news that manufacturing contracted for the first time in almost three years, raising concerns the United States has joined a global industrial slowdown. ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... Wednesday in New York. HONG KONG - Asian markets slipped on Friday following big losses on Wall Street following weak manufacturing data from China and Europe and downgrades for 15 of the world's biggest financial groups. The US Federal Reserve's light-touch ...

China manuf growth figures being misread

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... flash China Purchasing Managers' Index result released last week is being read as further evidence of a broad-based manufacturing slowdown, but this misinterprets what's going on in the sector, said Premium China Funds Management. The common method of ...

Fundamentally challenged

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... seventh consecutive week) for a 380K print. The Philly Fed index showed that the contraction in the mid-Atlantic manufacturing sector deepened in June, the index dropped to minus 16.6 versus May's minus 5.8 reading. US existing home sales decreased by ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... remained in focus. Adding to the selling pressure were preliminary numbers from banking giant HSBC showing China's manufacturing activity hit a seven-month low in June. Sydney fell 1.09 per cent, or 44.8 points, to 4087.6 and Seoul gave up 0.79 per cent ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... sentiment caused by Spain's banking crisis and political uncertainty in Greece. Dealers were also digesting a string of manufacturing figures from Asia to the United States that pointed to a global economic slowdown. Tokyo ended 1.71 per cent, or 144.62 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
... sentiment caused by Spain's banking crisis and political uncertainty in Greece. Dealers were also digesting a string of manufacturing figures from Asia to the United States that pointed to a global economic slowdown. Tokyo ended 1.71 per cent, or 144.62 ...

Equity value - cheap or the new normal?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... their worst nightmare or their happiest dream. Never mind the ups and downs in US and Chinese stats - disappointing manufacturing readings one day (bad), better-than-expected service sector PMIs today (good) - and the constantly changing verdict about ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... sentiment caused by Spain's banking crisis and political uncertainty in Greece. Dealers were also digesting a string of manufacturing figures from Asia to the United States that pointed to a global economic slowdown. Tokyo ended 1.71 per cent, or 144.62 ...