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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
The Australian stock market opened higher on Friday, led by the big miners after strong gains in the US overnight. At 1011 AEDT on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 27.7 points, or 0.65 per cent, at 4,283.2, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Nikkei not nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... And the external account is unlikely to improve anytime soon, particularly if the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank's recent global growth downgrades prove accurate. Moreover, the lingering European debt crisis would further put upward pressure ...

Forecasts shmorecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... from 4.5%). Perhaps what gives is we've heard this tune before. And heck, this is good news compared with what the World Bank (WB) saw in its crystal ball only a few days back. The WB sees the world economy expanding by only 2.5% this year and by 3.1% ...

Not so wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... greeted 2012 with almost universal agreement that the global growth outlook would be worse than it was in 2011 - the World Bank recently reminded us of this - and that the euro area could be just one event away from disintegration and that the roof would ...

Aus can deal with another GFC: Shorten

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... says Australia is not in the same boat as Europe and is better placed to deal with another worldwide recession. The World Bank yesterday declared the global economy had entered a "dangerous period", warning it could be thrown into a "deeper and longer-lasting" ...

Wolf, wolf

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... boy, oh boy. Have you seen this 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 ...

Get up and go on board

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
... the EFSF just two days ago. And there were more last night. In its semi-annual Global Economic Prospects report, the World Bank (WB) cautioned that, "An escalation of the [European] crisis would spare no one. Developed and developing country growth rates ...

Dead calm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... Service said that they're not slashing America's credit rating. It was more of the same in the orient too with the World Bank, in its latest semi-annual report, predicting that China is headed for a soft landing and that it and other countries in Asia ...

Indonesia to defy world growth forecasts

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... a slowing 3% this year to 2.9% in 2012, only marginally above the 2% threshold the International Monetary Fund and World Bank see as a technical global recession. In Citi 's downgrade sights were the US, Europe, Japan, Canada, the UK and even China. ...

Waiting to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011
... economy is bigger than Malta, Estonia, Cyprus and Slovenia -- that makes it the fifth, doesn't it? According to 2009 World Bank data, Slovakia's economy accounts for a whopping 0.8% of total Eurozone output. Germany makes up 20% and France 18%. So the ...

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