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Africa wants slice of bail-out

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... economic turnaround after the GFC. "We call on rich countries to keep Africa in mind as they design programs to help their economies weather the financial crisis," said Obiageli Ezekwesili, the World Bank's vice-president for the Africa Region at a video ...

No meat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... to fixed -- and fixed quickly. Confidence goes down several notches for every single day households, businesses and economies remain in dire straits. Grossly unpalatable as it may seem for many reeling western democracies, especially for the US, they ...

Transcending politics

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... of opposing. The longer these politicians bicker and try to gain political mileage, the more jobs and businesses and economies the global financial crisis wildfire will claim. A stitch in time saves nine. The bushfire disaster that razed entire communities ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... news to come. But at the same time, fiscal and monetary authorities around the world are not sitting by watching their economies sink. And they'll 'do what is necessary.' Just last week, Bank Indonesia, Norway's Norges Bank and the Bank of England all ...

Groundhog Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... What winter? According to them winter will never come. But winter came. And the big freeze came with a vengeance. Now economies big and small, rich and poor are freezing. Many could not even afford matchsticks to light their fireplaces. Whole economies ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... chopped down from an estimate of 2.2 per cent made just a month prior - before advancing to 3 per cent in 2010. Advanced economies account for the bulk of the downgrade. Output in these countries are now expected to contract by a full 2 per cent in 2009 ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... per cent in 2009 after advancing by an estimated 3.4 per cent last year. The IMF anticipates emerging and developing economies to grow by 3.3 per cent and developed countries to contract by 2 per cent this year. Of these developed countries, the IMF ...

Bigger fish to fry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
... higher. Thus far, Australia has been fortunate enough to avoid being drag into the vortex that has sunk much bigger economies down the drain. The US, Japan, the Eurozone and the UK are sinking -- nay, they are drowning. Even China has slowed. The threat ...

Sucked in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... billion bail-out package, the number of workers losing their jobs, people losing their homes, businesses failing and other economies receding are multiplying, each feeding on the other into what is looking like a never-ending downward spiral. The Australian ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... was a sea of red at noon with the materials sector leading the losses after a negative US lead and reports that the economies of Australia's three most important export destinations are softening. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down ...