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Chief economist update: AUD on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... expanding by 3.2% in the year to the June 2020 quarter following the March quarter's 6.8% contraction. The latest official PMI survey shows both manufacturing and non-manufacturing activity remaining in expansion in August - the sixth straight month ...

Chief economist update: The survey says...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018
... managers' indices surveyed by both the government and Caixin indicated the economy is marking time, at best. The official PMI survey showed manufacturing PMI fell to a reading of 54.4 in February from 55.3 in the previous month and the services PMI went ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016
... in the previous month - slightly better than expectations for a 50.8 reading. The difference in respondents - the official PMI surveys large-scale state-owned firms while Caixin canvasses private industrial companies - helps explain the disparity in ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2016
... expansion/contraction mark, suggesting some stability in large manufacturers and state-owned enterprises which the official PMI mainly tracks. In contrasts, the Caixin manufacturing PMI - that mostly tracks small and medium-sized companies - fell to ...

August angst to September mourn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... the VIX index spiked 10.5% overnight to a reading of 31.40. It's China that did it! Oh yes, Virginia, yesterday's official PMI result reminded all and sundry that all is not well in the world's second biggest economy. Be afraid, be very afraid. And why ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... and marked the second monthly contraction in a row after March's 49.6. China's government on Friday had posted its official PMI at 50.1 for last month, unchanged from March when the gauge showed growth for the first time this year. WELLINGTON - New Zealand ...

Easing here, there and everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 FEB 2015
... PMI remained below the 50 expansion/contraction at 49.7 in January from 49.6 in December. It came a day after the official PMI dipped to 49.8 in January - the first sub-50 reading in 2.5 years. And Chinese inflation? It was just 1.5% in December, far ...

So good but for the wrong spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... night... and why stop when you're on a good thing... there's also the US weekly retail sales report and China's own official PMI manufacturing index to hold on to. That was until I stopped and looked at the actual reports. And here's what I found: ISM ...

Better than good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... reading over the first quarter as a whole (53.4) was the best outcome since the second quarter of 2011"; In China, the official PMI inched up to 50.3 from 50.2 in Feb but... HSBC's final measure dipped to 48 from 48.5; for Japan, the BOJ's quarterly ...

30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... purchasing managers indexes (PMI) triggered the all around happy mood on markets on September's first trading day. China's official PMI rose to a better than expected reading of 51.0 in August - a 15-month high - which, along with the jump in HSBCs flash ...
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