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This Week's Market Movers (21-25 July 2008)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
... (PMI) for the Eurozone as a whole and for France and Germany are expected to contract further in July, reflecting the euro area's cooling growth resulting from the higher interest rates and the more expensive currency, among others. In the UK, the Bank ...

Cracks appearing in Europe

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2008
... leading to housing market worries across Europe. KBC Asset Management's latest world market analysis reveals that the euro area has held up reasonably well in the past few months and even defied the odds to record robust growth in the first quarter ...

World growth to drop by one-fifth, but no US recession: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
... Growth in western Europe is also slowing, driven down by confidence indicators which are generally deteriorating. For the Euro area, annual growth is expected to be on par with the US at 1.6 percent in 2008, also down from about the same level last year ...

Perfect storm

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
... far-reaching effects on countries that denominate trade in dollars, even if direct trade with the United States or the euro area is negligible," said an IMF report from the conference when describing a paper by Linda Goldberg and Cedric Tille who are ...

Greenspan says global recovery strengthening

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2004
... favourable performance,\" Greenspan said. Europe trails the pack, though it too was growing. \"The pace of recovery in the euro area has been sluggish, however, with particularly weak activity in Germany,\" Greenspan said.

European's believe inflation is higher than reality, ECB's Trinchet says

... Fund. The ECB chief, appearing at the Economic Club of New York, said this could help explain why consumption in the euro area is weaker than in the United States. "One of the key problems is the perception by consumers that their purchasing power is ...

OECD says recovery slowing in US, eurozone

... expansion ahead overall. But it added: "February data signal slightly weakening performance in the United States and the euro area, particularly for Germany."

World economy seems to be recovering: RBA

WITH AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2004
... conflict in Iraq, that had seemed important in the middle of last year have now faded into the background. Edey said the euro area was still lagging behind, but there had been a solid pick up in growth in the US, Japan, China and across the rest of east ...

OECD leading indicator data reveals moderate to strong recovery ahead

... indicators (CLIs). October data had signalled continued accelerating performance in the US and improving performance in the Euro area, especially in France and Germany. The CLI for the OECD are rose by 1.3 points in October 2003 to 126.4 from 125.1 in ...

OECD standardised unemployment rate rises

... to 7.2 percent in September, which is 0.1% higher than the previous month and 0.2% higher than a year earlier. In the Euro area, the standardised unemployment rate remained at 8.8% in September 2003, which is 0.3% higher than a year earlier. For the ...