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Bulls see red

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... sapping every bit of confidence left among governments, businesses, investors and households. The IMF and the Fed and the World Bank's warnings confirmed these. So did last night's stats that showed China's preliminary manufacturing PMI falling to a ...

Dangerous currents

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... maturity of approximately three months covering the end of the year." As they should... for we're all in this together. As World Bank president Robert Zoellick stated only yesterday, "The time for muddling through is over. If we do not get ahead of events ...

It's official, Rudd saved Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
It is being reported today that Treasury believe it was really former prime minister Kevin Rudd who saved Australia from the GFC and not the mining industry, but before we get too excited the analysis simply confirms that we don't just have a two-speed ...

Fear is in the air

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... themselves up into a tizzy worrying over the future of global growth - because that future is bad. It's so bad that the World Bank downgraded its world growth forecast for this year by an astounding, off the edge of your seats, eye-watering 0.1 per cent ...

A friend like Ben

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... even a full three months into the New Year. Japan is just starting to calibrate the cost of the 11 March disaster. The World Bank estimates that it would take the country five years to rebuild at a staggering cost of US$235 billion. And that's only for ...

Riots turn fund managers to risk review

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... the shareholding. In addition, the host government has the obligation to repay the amount, and if it does not, the World Bank has the right to suspend further financing for the country. That combination forms a powerful incentive not to damage approved ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... Australia could turn from a mere war spectator into one of the combatants. This weekend's annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Washington could not come soon enough. Let's hope cooler heads prevail cause war is good for "absolutely nothing".

Nigerian PenCom adjusts pension

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... pension contributions. Henshaw named inflation as the biggest danger with support apparently available through some World Bank and IFC economic instruments. Under previous regulations in Nigeria, only bonds issued by the Federal Government of Nigeria ...

Stress test stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
Look ma, I passed the test! Hip, hip... Eighty-four European banks received their certificate of financial health from the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) over the weekend. They'll survive a recession and a sovereign debt crisis if ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... bank bailouts and expectations of "severe" deterioration in the government's debt metrics. The IMF and the EU and the World Bank chopped Hungary off the block. They suspended talks with the Hungarian government. In other words, Hungary won't be able ...