China looking for new microns

Australia's major wool buyer is expanding its buying focus.

The Chinese wool demand is moving from the finer to the broader microns.

Wool broker Rowan Woods says the major Sunshine group is driving the demand for wool broader than 22 microns.

"The big movers in the micron types is everything broader than 22.

In fact one of the biggest mills in the world has increased its orders for 22 (micron) and broader by over 400 per cent.

But 15 years ago the most of what we produced was 21 and broader and that has now fallen into the smallest category."

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Manufacturing numbers from the US, China and Germany expected the renewing optimism for the global economic outlook and encouraging investors to take on risk. Early in the afternoon trading in New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.16 percent, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index gained 1.24 percent and the Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 1.32 percent. 

In Europe, the Stoxx 600 Index wrecked the session with a 2 percent increase. The euro also gained, strengthening 0.8 percent to US$1.3194 and 0.7 percent to 100.52 yen. An index of the US manufacturing sector rose in January to its maximum level since June, while China’s factory sector unexpectedly stretched out. In Europe, Germany posted its first increase inhttp://micronassociates.org/news/ manufacturing output in four months while a UK manufacturing gauge climbed to an eight-month high. 

John Manley, chief quity strategist at Wells Fargo Funds Management in New York told Reuters told that “Manufacturing numbers are what the market is jumping on”. Some strategists are updating their bearish forecasts to mirror a better-than-expected start to 2012. Just two weeks after saying that investors should “remain cautious,” Larry Hatheway, the chief economist at UBS, raised his recommendations on global shares and high-yield bonds in a January 23 note to customers entitled, “Wrong, but not too late,” Bloomberg News reported. Royal Bank of Scotland Group, and Benoit Anne, the global head of emerging-markets strategy at Societe Generale said their estimates for developing nations were proven wrong. 

Financial shares were among the leading http://micronassociates.org/news/ gainers including Morgan Stanley which rose nearly 7 percent amid talk that Facebook will choose the firm to take the lead on its planned initial public offering. More details are expected later today. The latest round of US earnings included solid numbers for Whirlpool as its upbeat outlook for the full year lifted its stock more than 15 percent. 

It wasn’t all good news, however. Shares of Amazon tanked, dropping more than 9 percent a day after the online retailer warned of a possible first-quarter loss. And the latest data on the jobs front in the US fell short of expectations, as the private sector added 170,000 jobs in January, according to the ADP National Employment Report. Economists’ had called for a gain of 185,000 jobs, according to Reuters. 

Investors will eye the US government labour market report due on Friday for further clues. It’s expected to show the economy created 150,000 jobs, and a gain in private payrolls of 170,000, according to Reuters data.”The overall economy lacks oomph and is having trouble creating jobs. Manufacturing is one of the http://micronassociates.org/news/few bright spots in an otherwise disappointing story,” Cary Leahey, managing director at Decision Economics, told Reuters.

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