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PE boom poses risks: IMF

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2007
Growth in private equity and leveraged buyouts (LBOs) pose risks to an otherwise positive global economic outlook, according to the International Monetary Fund's half-yearly Global Financial Stability Report. According to the IMF, strong corporate performance ...

Argo announces record profits for 2003/04

Australian listed investment company Argo Investments, announced today a 16.7% improvement on underlying profits for the 2003/2004 financial year and a record $78.6 million after tax profit. The company, with total assets of $2.2 billion and investments ...

All eyes this week on RBA governor speech: economists

... chief economist John Edwards said. "(However) Mr Macfarlane cannot but be reasonably positive about the global economic outlook and Australia's role in it, a sentiment which might get markets re-evaluating the chance of a rate rise." Dr Edwards said ...

Morning Market Wrap: New six-year high for dollar

... strategy, Greg McKenna, said the dollar was bid because of the interest rate differential and an improving global economic outlook. "People are going to attribute it to the Reserve Bank," he said. "Of all the influences on the Aussie, the interest rate ...

Midday Market Wrap: Bond market stronger after yesterday's sell off

... the need to see a few more of these positive labour market surprises before the downside risks to the global economic outlook are marked lower," they said. "Hence a rate hike in 2003 is a possibility but we continue to favour an early 2004 move." They ...

Banks, resources supported, telcos challenged : Citigroup

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2003
An improving global economic outlook and a stabilising credit environment supports the bank and resources sector while operating conditions for telecommunications remain challenging, a credit analyst said today. While corporate bond supply remains patchy ...

Argo Investments posts 22% rise in net profit

... June 2003, up from $61.194 million in the previous year. Argo chairman Chris Harris said that while the global economic outlook remained difficult to judge, there were some indications that a mild upturn may occur in the year ahead, although Australia ...

NAB Looking For Rate Cuts

... dollar as the factor most likely responsible for the anticipated rate cuts. Indeed, the Bank noted the global economic outlook had changed little over the past month, as witnessed by the absence of material change in consensus economic forecasts. The ...

Westpac announces $1.05 billion half-year profit

... earnings growth while maintaining a cash return on equity," chief executive David Morgan said. While the global economic outlook remains uncertain, Westpac's outlook has generally weakened over recent months due to Middle East disruption, the half-year ...

OECD predicts gradual resumption of economic growth

The 30-member Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said that while the global economic outlook is for a gradual resumption of growth there are still significant risks to the strength of the recovery, primarily, the build up in ...
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