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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... European Central Bank's chief economist just as a G7 meeting in France opened seeking new ways to fend off gloom in the world economy. The tumble began after a weak opening on Wall Street, driven down by scepticism over a US jobs stimulus and doubts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... resembled that of the panic that followed the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008 and threw the world economy into recession. Italy's UniCredit fell 7.30 per cent to 0.832 euros and Intesa Sanpaolo dropped 6.96 per cent to 1.029 euros. ...

IMF just as baffled as we are

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
Global pressure to contain debt is ironically one of the biggest threats to the world economy, warns the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde. Writing in the Financial Times, Lagarde said world economic confidence ...

Ideas count and Australia is up to 69,000

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... sixth with 36,000 patents over the decade for a 0.6% market share is reasonable, but compared to our 2% share of the world economy it's nonetheless a bit under-done. This relative performance illustrates why national complaints over our high dollar or ...

In a better place

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... to be at about trend. Over the medium term, overall growth is still likely to be at trend or higher, unless the world economy deteriorates noticeably." And here, methinks the RBA's caveat, "unless the world economy deteriorates noticeably" refers mainly ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
... Commerce. In Australia on Tuesday, the Australian share market extended last week's losses amid fresh concerns about the world economy, sparked by poor US employment data. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ended 14 points lower, by 0.31 per cent, at 4,569.1 ...

Greeks, chips and slicks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... is that a 10% increase in the price of oil will cut a quarter of a percentage point off global growth. With the world economy currently growing at 4.5%, that suggests the oil price would need to leap, probably above its 2008 peak of almost $150 a barrel ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... Central Bank and strong private sector employment data in the United States. "They're the three flashpoints of the world economy," he said. "If you get positive comments or data in unison, then the market tends to respond quite positively, which it has ...

Lower returns outlook will change allocation choices

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... manager for Amundi, favors diversified bond indices that cover the region, especially as their counterpart developed world economy bond markets are expected to take at least two years to return to normalcy - and that is assuming there are no more systemic ...

Amigos para siempre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... that the Fed's action is "not necessarily optimal for the world... It may cause a lot of negative impacts for the world economy. If there is no restraint in issuing major global currencies such as the US dollar, the occurrence of another crisis is inevitable." ...