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Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... if the Eurozone members go their own ways. The German deutschemark would shoot up, German competitiveness erode, manufacturing and exporting companies would close down, unemployment rises, consumer spending falls, and so on. Then again, even assuming ...

Show me the stats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... still China and the latest PMI survey confirmed that it is indeed slowing. HSBC's preliminary measure showed the manufacturing index there fell to 48.7 in May from a final reading of 49.3 in April. That's all good too because the government and the People's ...

Managers confident on value as China PMI contracts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
The latest figures on Chinese manufacturing show a contraction for the seventh consecutive month, although investment managers remain confident. HSBC's purchasing managers index (PMI) yesterday indicated factory output fell from 49.3 in April to 48.7 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... treaded water amid continuing uncertainty over a possible Greek exit from the euro zone and disappointing Chinese manufacturing data. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 9.4 points, or 0.23 per cent, at 4,057.6 while the broader All Ordinaries index ...

That anxious wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... escalate. Investors are ignoring recent US reports that are again surprising on the upside. There's the Empire State manufacturing index that in March rose to its highest level since June 2011. There's April industrial production growing at its fastest ...

Fidelity: Asia focusing on intra-region trade

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
Despite growing fears about a decline in manufacturing, Asia is underpinned by resilient domestic demand and strong growth in intra-region trade, according to Fidelity. Asian economies are less dependent on OECD countries than in the past, said David ...

China needs active management: Fidelity

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... five-year plan. "The key aim of the plan implemented in 2011 was social harmony and to move the economy or growth from a manufacturing, fixed asset base to an economy driven by consumption and services. "Hence when you look at the positioning of most ...

Return to surplus may hit big business

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2012
... moving along as best as possible through the global economic uncertainty." Identifying retail, services, tourism and manufacturing as sectors struggling in current conditions, El-Ansary said the Treasurer's assessment that a surplus budget will make ...

China's consumption underestimated

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... two regions for growth; they have to depend on the intra-region growth that is happening. "China is experiencing manufacturing challenges, wherever China can seize market share they have already done it, they cannot go out and do anything new anymore." ...

Yes, no, I don't know

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... Those thinking it would point to last night's worse-than-expected drop in the Institute for Supply Management non-manufacturing index. The index dropped to 53.5% in April. Although it indicates that America's service sector continued to expand last month ...