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Economy 'not running out of puff': Wayne Swan

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
... mining sector as drivers of economic growth. In his first public address since being replaced by Chris Bowen at The Economist Bellweather 2013 Australian Forum in Sydney, Swan said predictions of economic instability, or even recession, ignore the fact ...

Australian economy "professionally managed": World Bank

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... away from a focus on mining. Addressing delegates at The Bellweather Series, an annual finance forum in Sydney from The Economist's intelligence unit via link-up from the World Bank's Washington DC headquarters, Basu said Australia's relative strength ...

Number of instos prioritising risk doubles since GFC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
... their highest priority has more than doubled since before the 2008 financial crisis, according to a new research by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) commissioned by State Street Corporation. The survey of nearly 300 executives from global asset ...

The Celtic Tiger gets back its roar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... growth. Irish real GDP expanded by 0.8% in the year to the third quarter of 2012 (latest available I could find) and 'The Economist' predicts growth of 0.5% in 2013 and 1.4% next year. Compare this year to fourth quarter 2012 contractions of 2.8% in ...

Good US housing news gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
... Reuters share price analysis. Confirming the sentiment shift, analysis of US Department of Commerce housing figures by the Economist magazine show that while new housing starts year on year spiked in October to 3.8% up from 3.5% two months earlier, they ...

Sweeet!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... Grexit. It won't contemplate bankruptcy. To do so would be asking for an even greater headache for the eurozone. As 'The Economist' eloquently puts it, "The reduction in interest rates [for Greece] means that Italy and Spain are lending money to Greece ...

Financial services outstrip mining: CommSec

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... contributor to Australian tourism behind New Zealand and other industries are growing as well." Against this backdrop the economist warned financial advisers that businesses which are looking to shave costs by cutting jobs and slashing marketing budgets ...

Q3 will work

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
"Is QE3 enough to save America's economy?" The Economist magazine posed this question to its readers over the weekend. So far, the nays have it - 78% of them think QE won't cut it - because according to those who commented: even Bernanke admitted that ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... - up 10.1%. Why not? Australia is AAA-rated while the US only has two A's. Australia has a lower budget deficit. The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) predicts a shortfall of 0.7% of GDP at the end of this year -- more than 10 times that of Uncle Sam's ...

AIMA helping super funds plan HF moves

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... showed that in June hedge funds globally suffered the largest withdrawals in assets since October 2009 with both The Economist and Thompson Reuters labelling it a tough time for the industry. Kim Ivey, president of AIMA Australia, however, has said that ...