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Economy withstands impact of tsunami

... hardly affected. The local tourism trade will be most affected but Oliver expects it to recover fairly quickly. The economist estimates the negative effect of the natural disaster to range from 0.5 per cent in Indonesia and India, to 1.5 per cent in ...

Risk management climbs up corporate agenda: survey

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2004
... of this issue, according to a new global survey. The PricewaterhouseCoopers survey, written in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit, found financial institutions were recognising the importance of risk management and growing in their awareness ...

US interest rates likely to rise as inflation builds, poll finds

US economic growth is chugging along but worries about rising inflation pressures have fueled expectations the Federal Reserve will push up interest rates in the next few months. A Reuters poll taken on Thursday, after the first-quarter gross domestic ...

Focus on China-US bilateral trade in upcoming Dubai summit: ICAP

G7 finance ministers are to get together this weekend in Dubai to compare notes, whilst the outlook for economic growth appears to be better than it has been for some years, economists at ICAP said in their Weekly Insights report released today. ICAP ...

FOMC to meet next week, unlikely to change interest rates: ICAP

The meeting next Tuesday by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will look to reassess the outlook for the US economy and adjust interest rates and the accompanying balance of risks statement accordingly. In its latest Weekly Insights by ICAP, its ...

ICAP says US current account deficit causing considerable global uncertainty

Economists at ICAP have said that the capital flows that have been behind the blow out in the US current account deficit will not reverse quickly and that was leaving the global financial markets to face considerable uncertainty over the next few years. ...

US economic growth likely, but less than Fed expectations: ICAP

In its latest weekly economic update released today, ICAP's economists have said that the outlook for the US economy shows better growth is imminent soon, however there was no obvious catalyst for really strong growth. ICAP has cited the fact that the ...

Global accounting standards get thumbs up: report

... International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), according to a study released by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the Economist Intelligence Unit today. The study also showed that there was widespread uncertainty and confusion about what the standards ...