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Up for both us and the Kiwis but looks like we're waiting for Asia for some firm direction.

 

All Ords +0.2% led by IT +1.4% and Telecomms/Utilities +1.2%. At the red end REITS is down the most, -1.4%.

 

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Australian Home-Loan Approvals Fall Most in Decade

 

March 10 (Bloomberg) -- Australian home-loan approvals unexpectedly fell in January by the most in almost a decade after central bank Governor Glenn Stevens raised borrowing costs and the government cut assistance to first-time buyers.

 

The number of loans granted to build or buy houses and apartments dropped 7.9 percent to 51,056 from December, when they declined a revised 5.1 percent, the statistics bureau said in Sydney today. The median estimate of 20 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News was for a 2 percent advance.

 

The number of loan approvals has tumbled almost 21 percent since the end of September, when the government partially reduced grants to first-time buyers of newly built dwellings from A$21,000 ($19,200). The payments were also lowered on Jan. 1 to A$7,000.

 

First-home buyers accounted for 20.5 percent of dwellings that were financed in January, down from 21 percent in December, and the lowest level since October 2008, the statistics bureau said today.

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Japanese Machinery Orders Declined 3.7% in January

 

March 10 (Bloomberg) -- Japan’s machinery orders slipped in January after the biggest jump since 2000, indicating a subdued appetite among the nation’s companies to ramp up capital spending even as manufacturing passed its worst.

 

Orders, a signal of business investment in three to six months, dropped 3.7 percent from December, when they climbed 20.1 percent, the Cabinet Office said today. The government said after the report that machinery demand is “bottoming.”

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A case of the haves and the have-nots. All Ords finished flat and at one end we have IT +2.9%, Telecomms +2.6%, Utilities +1.3% and at the other REITS -2.2%, Consumer Staples -0.6% and Consumer Discretionary -0.4%.

 

Asia swinging back and forth: China -0.5%, Honkers flat, India +0.7% and Nikkers +0.1%.

 

 

On to UK/Europe:

 

Footsie

 

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With bulls standing under the mistletoe - can we take back some momentum.

 

"last Friday’s employment report seems to be following its historical pattern of creating a one to 2-day triple-digit move in one direction or the other by the Dow. The rest of that pattern is that whichever direction the move takes is usually reversed over the following few days."

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U.K. Manufacturing Drops for First Time Since August

 

March 10 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. factory production unexpectedly fell in January for the first time in five months, a sign manufacturing is struggling to shake off the nation’s longest recession on record.

 

Factory output dropped 0.9 percent from December, the Office for National Statistics said today in London. Economists predicted a 0.2 percent increase, according to the median of 26 forecasts in a Bloomberg News survey. The pound fell as much as 0.4 percent after the report and traded at $1.4909 as of 10:26 a.m. in London.

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Still having that intermittent problem of being unable to resolve the host when making a post here. Any of you IT geniuses have any idea what's causing that? Only happens on my PC, not my laptop.

 

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U.K. Manufacturing Drops for First Time Since August

 

March 10 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. factory production unexpectedly fell in January for the first time in five months, a sign manufacturing is struggling to shake off the nation’s longest recession on record.

 

Factory output dropped 0.9 percent from December, the Office for National Statistics said today in London. Economists predicted a 0.2 percent increase, according to the median of 26 forecasts in a Bloomberg News survey. The pound fell as much as 0.4 percent after the report and traded at $1.4909 as of 10:26 a.m. in London.

 

UK has manufacturing ... :o :lol: :lol:

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