Tag: financial

September 6, 2012 0

August Services ISM +53.7; All News Good News

By News Desk

Faster 183 "The NMIâ„¢ registered 53.7 percent in August, 1.1 percentage points higher than the 52.6 percent registered in July. This indicates continued growth this month at a slighter faster rate in the non-manufacturing sector.

September 6, 2012 0

Australia Department Store Sales Slump 10.2 Percent; Retail, Food Store Bankruptcies; Reflections on Housing and Commodities Bust

By News Desk

For details please see By 2015 Hard Commodity Prices Will Collapse; Australia’s Mining Boom Dies (and the Official Denials Start) Wrapping up the disaster in Australia, please see Michael Feller’s synopsis on Macro Investor Being a Bear is Not "unAustralian" . Peruse the Reserve Bank governor’s recent remarks to the senate or listen to the commentariat on talkback radio and it would seem that Australia’s economy has become victim of nothing more than an insidious rogue gloom-and-doomerism that threatens to hurt the nation, or worse. At its worst, this anti-half-glass-empty rhetoric smacks economic McCarthyism