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World Bank warns of a sharp global growth decline

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2023
The World Bank's Global Economic Prospects report forecasts declining global growth due to rising inflation, high interest rates and reduced investment. Fragile economic conditions have left the economy vulnerable to any new adverse developments, the ...

Chief economist update: Equity market disconnect

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
"Crocodile came up, bit my guts out and bit me into parts... pieces and then my legs went that way and then my head went that way" -- HBA Insurance Australian TV ad The TV ad might as well be describing the current state of play - equity markets heading ...

Chief economist update: A busy 2020 for Abe, BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
The world economy would advance by 2.5% this year, a tad stronger than the "post-crisis low" of 2.4% estimated for 2019. This is the World Bank's prediction contained in its January 2020 'Global Economic Prospects' report, noting that: "While ...

Chief economist update: The risks just got real

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... glowing global growth forecasts too for the risks to their projections just became real. The World Bank's "Global Economic Prospects" report (released in January) upgraded world GDP growth to 3% in 2018 (from its June forecast of 2.8%) and 2.9% in 2019 ...

Chief economist update: Bond sell bomb shell

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
... €60 billion to €30 billion starting this month. But if the World Bank's (WB) recently-released 'Global Economic Prospects' report turns out correct, Bill would turn out wrong...again. Bill was still head honcho at PIMCO (in 2011) when he decided ...

7.5% in black and white

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... conducted two months ago predicted China growth of 7.3% this year and more recently, the World Bank, in its Global Economic Prospects report, sees the economy growing by 7.6% in 2014. This is a long, long way off from the fear mongering published by ...

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... gloom and doom peddlers a-plenty about this time last year. The World Bank (WB) - in its semi-annual Global Economic Prospects report - warned the people of the financial market world to prepare for a global downturn of Lehmanesque proportions in the ...

That anxious wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... this time it isn't moi. It's the World Bank. Four months ago (January), the World Bank warned in its Global Economic Prospects report of, "a downturn so severe it would eclipse the chaos that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008" because ...

Wheel of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... theage.com.au warn of the "Ugliest' of times ahead" as it went to town with the World Bank's (WB) latest Global Economic Prospects report - released in January - that, "signalled a downturn so severe it would eclipse the chaos that followed the collapse ...

Wolf, wolf

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... morning's headline on theage.com.au? "'Ugliest' of times ahead." It's all about the World Bank's latest Global Economic Prospects report that, "signalled a downturn so severe it would eclipse the chaos that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers in ...
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