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Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... international body trying to prove its relevance anew. Apparently, the overnight slide in equity markets was prompted by the World Bank's (WB) downgrade of its global growth forecasts. The World Bank now expects the global economy to contract by 2.9 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... broad-market Standard & Poor's 500 index shed 28.19 points (3.06 per cent) to settle at 893.04. A grim outlook by the World Bank and declining commodity prices led by oil added to nervousness as investors returned to the market ahead of a two-day Federal ...

No protection in protectionism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... promised to start immediate negotiations over repurchasing warrants still held by the government. Greenest shoot. The World Bank lifted China's 2009 growth forecast from 6.5 per cent to 7.2 per cent encouraged by its economy's quick response to the 4 ...

Pocketing the change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... starting to stir and add to the snippets of positive news that have been flowing over the past few weeks. By the way, the World Bank reports that China's economy is on track to hit bottom by midyear. If these run of good news continue, the RBA would ...

GFC Problem solved

... meets the eye. The G20 resolved to boost the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) resources by US$500 billion, gave the World Bank (WB) US$100 billion plus US$250 billion for trade financing. If anyone ever wondered why these international bodies where ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
... restore credit, growth and jobs in the world economy and boost the coffers of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were announced half an hour before European markets closed. Britain's FTSE 100 closed up 169.36 points, or 4.28 per cent ...

Forecasting foibles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has joined the fray of gloomier international forecasters. The World Bank (WB) started to get glum at the start of the year, quickly followed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Not to be ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... its cheapest level since 1986. The global institutions. It has been a very long while since we last heard from the World Bank (WB), so long that some doesn't know it still exists. So when it re-appeared over the weekend, it had to be sensational. It ...

Infrastructure wins pension funds votes

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... intentions include CalSTERS, the Washington State Pension Plan, Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation, Oregon PERD, and the World Bank. The phenomenon is also gathering pace in Holland, where its largest pension fund APG unveilled that it had set a 2 per ...

Africa wants slice of bail-out

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... 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 press conference from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ezekwesili said it was important ...