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The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... Poor Europe for this couldn't come at a worse time - a time when news just hit cyberspace that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) threatened to suspend aid payments to Greece and Cyprus requesting to renegotiate the terms of its bailout. Oh em gee! ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
... Committee keeping its stimulus policy in place when it meets on Tuesday and Wednesday. In addition, the International Monetary Fund pared its 2014 forecast for US growth, blaming the government's sharp "sequester" spending cuts. LONDON - Europe's top ...

May's not far away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... and go away. And right on cue, the financial news are getting gloomier. We've already touched on the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) downgrade of global economic growth from 3.3% to 3.5%, China's disappointing 7.7% GDP scorecard in the first quarter ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and the Conference Board. Sentiment had already been downcast after the International Monetary Fund slashed its growth forecasts earlier in the week. "Stocks have been under pressure throughout the session as investors respond ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
... would pick up in the second half of the year. In its newest assessment of the global economy, the International Monetary Fund said world output would expand by 3.3 per cent this year, compared with the 3.5 per cent it predicted in January. HONG KONG ...

No problemo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
... equities. No problemo! It was on full display last night. Wall Street up at the same time that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) lowered its 2013 growth forecast to 3.3% from the 3.5% it predicted only three months before. No worries. In the minutes ...

Wall Street up till it was down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
... taxes." Yup, no worries. Investors were merely "keeping an eye" on it. And this from Bloomberg: "The International Monetary Fund will lower its growth forecast for the U.S., where $85 billion in spending cuts are due to begin tomorrow, an IMF spokesman ...

Fear is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... for Italy, no matter who's at the helm. If the European Union or the European Central Bank or the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cannot make Italy toe the line on austerity, the bond vigilantes will. But it's not only the goings-on in Italy, there ...

Good, better, best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... scours through the macro stats and surveys released over the past 24 hours. Never mind reports of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) lowering its world growth forecast anew - down to 3.5% from 3.6% it predicted in October -- like most guesses, it ...

Diamond in the region

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... according to the 'Philippine Daily Inquirer', "The country is the only economy in the world which the International Monetary Fund (IMF) believes will grow faster than earlier expected this year." This is evident in the outperformance of the Philippine ...