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Not in the mood for bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... with the one-year deposit rate is now 3.5% and the one-year lending at 6.56%. If financial markets worried about a hard landing when China's PMI showed manufacturing just teetering on the edge of the 50 expansion/contraction mark - it fell to 50.9 in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... to bullishness on Tokyo Electric Power. Optimism from figures suggesting the Chinese economy is not heading for a hard landing was tempered by Beijing's decision to almost immediately hike the amount of cash banks must keep in reserve, surprising traders. ...

Making the data fit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... in fixed asset investment in the first five months of 2011. Bu shi ('no' in Mandarin according to google). So no hard landing for China now but what about overheating? Markets just ignored data showing that Chinese inflation rose to a 34-month high of ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... of interest rates. "On the other hand, people may be concerned that it has slowed too much and we may be in for a hard landing." Australia's major airlines were down in early trade as ash from Chile's Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano continued to keep some ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... actual hikes in interest rates (in emerging markets), lingering doubts over the US recovery, policy mistake and then a hard landing in China, competitive devaluation, trade war, debts, deficits and downgrades, etc. all proved futile in getting financial ...

Chimerica threat looms over returns

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... most economies when they gone through the aggressive fixed investment type of approach that China has had, have a hard landing." "The Chinese are pretty clearly trying to slow it down, their economy and their property market pretty aggressively, they ...

When good is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
... inflation, will force authorities to tighten monetary policy more, will increase risk of policy mistake, will cause a hard landing... in China and then the world. Bad is good. Moody's cut Greece's sovereign credit rating to junk. There's political uncertainty ...

Hard landing if we don't heed RBA warnings

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
The Reserve Bank's (RBA) increasingly hawkish attitude to smashing inflation presents risks of a hard landing in 2009 if consumers don't quickly moderate their spending. "With interest rates going higher and higher the risk that they go too high - if ...

Debt climbs, home values fall

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
... house values will tear holes in many families' financial parachute. Without curtailing spending, many are in for a hard landing. Falling house prices are good for buyers entering the market and following a 4.0 per cent decline in June new home sales ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2006
... rising US mortgage rates are putting pressure on housing, the market is experiencing an orderly slowdown and not a hard landing. The May housing starts figure remains below March's 1.97 million annual rate and has taken the three-month average to 1.93 ...