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Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
... budget deterioration over the past six months of any of the 29 most advanced economies tracked by the International Monetary Fund". (AFR) Australia's budget deficit had widened by about 1% of our GDP since the IMF last peered into our accounts last October ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... local bourse: an overnight rebound in US markets, positive global economic growth forecasts from the International Monetary Fund, and some excitement over the takeover agreement involving David Jones. "The market's up around one per cent - that's the ...

BOE has a problem to smile about

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... doing nothing but introducing forward guidance - Mark Carney's presiding over an economy that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted -- only last night - to be the fastest growing among the G7 this year. Yes Virginia, the IMF sees the UK ...

APRA requests more decision-making power

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... by APRA staff, singly or collectively, over $20,000. The submission cited concerns expressed by the International Monetary Fund over the increased ministerial directions power, and the parliamentary disallowance procedure - whereby regulatory changes ...

Michael Hintze to join Financial Systems Inquiry

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... Westpac Banking Corporation and a deputy secretary of the Australian Treasury, and has worked for the International Monetary Fund. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2009 for service to the finance sector The global chairman of technology ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
... stocks closed mixed after a stream of generally lacklustre earnings reports and a modest upgrade to the International Monetary Fund's economic forecast. At the closing bell, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 44.12 points (0.27 per cent) at 16,414.44. ...

Victim of success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... from 0.7% in the previous three months. The rising momentum in economic activity has prompted the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to upgrade 2013 and 2014 growth forecasts for the nation in the October update of its World Economic Outlook Report to ...

Bears out a-haunting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... correction in the market if this goes on for a month or longer." Just in time to join the chorus, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued its own warning. In its bi-annual World Economic Outlook (WEO) released overnight, the IMF warned that, "Reassessment ...

NZ Super CEO appointed deputy chair of IFSWF

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... Corporation. "The IFSWF is now establishing a permanent secretariat, having initially worked with the International Monetary Fund's services," Orr said. The IFSWF is a voluntary association of 25 sovereign wealth funds, including Australia's Future Fund ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... generally expressed even deeper concerns about the October 17 deadline to raise the debt ceiling. International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde warned that a US failure to raise the ceiling could wreak havoc on the global economy, while the Treasury ...