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Much ado, no do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... While enumerating a litany of disappointments over weakening indicators - growth, employment, household spending, manufacturing production, business investment, etc. - he made no mention of an impending QE. Interpretation = the US economy hasn't weakened ...

Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... itself. There is America. Recent economic indicators have been disappointing - most notably, the June drop in the ISM manufacturing index - one of the most reliable leading indicators of the US economy - into contraction territory and the disappointing ...

Two cuts and a top up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2012

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... Wall Street, with investors banking on the Federal Reserve taking stimulus measures after the release of weak US manufacturing data and the ECB cutting rates on Thursday. Tokyo closed up 0.70 per cent, or 63.11 points, at 9,066.59 on Tuesday, and Seoul ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... where we thought it would around which is idling around the flatline." Wall Street finished mixed after news that US manufacturing contracted for the first time in almost three years in June, raising concerns about a key pillar of the nation's economic ...

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 ...