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The rise of the Australian bourse to continue, analysts

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2004
... at record levels,\" Betts said. \"We think it (the ASX 200) can get to 3750 by the end of the year as long as the world economy doesn\'t soften significantly.\" But Perpetual Investments head of equities research Emilio Gonzalez said the climate had ...

Economy well placed for solid growth: Costello

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2004
... increase, which was lower than economists\' expectations, took annual economic growth up to a healthy 4.1%. \"The strong world economy leaves the Australian economy well positioned to maintain solid growth over the period ahead,\" Costello said. \"The ...

Economists clash over rates and $A

... disagreement, Westpac's general manager of economics Bill Evans sided with Koukoulas, throwing in the comment that "the world economy is about as good as it's going to get". S&P's chief global economist David Weiss opined that the Australian dollar and ...

RBA's decision to leave rates unchanged no surprise

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2004
... Carr said the basic reason for today\'s decision to leave rates unchanged was the need for more time to see how the world economy panned out. \"At the moment if they were considering an interest rate hike in the short to medium term this year it would ...

Murdoch optimistic about Australian economy

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2004
... During a speech earlier at the conference, the News Corp chairman said he was "extremely optimistic" about the US and world economy "in the long-medium term". "And I am also in the short term, just by my experience in business in certain countries," ...

IMF says world economic outlook rosy

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2004
The outlook for the world economy had brightened in the last six months and was now among the rosiest in 10 years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said today. In its twice-yearly economic scorecard, the United Nations lender upgraded its forecasts ...

Former IMF chief economist tips 4.75% global growth in 2004

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 APR 2004
Asia and the United States will propel the world economy to the fastest growth pace in a generation in 2004, former IMF chief economist Michael Mussa predicted Thursday. Western Europe would lag, but most of the rest of the world would join the 2004 ...

Interest rates expected to stay on hold

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2004
... The deficit ballooned by 47% to $46.8 billion last year, due partly to a 30% rise in the Aussie as well as a weak world economy. Treasurer Peter Costello said the current account deficit was still significant and showed Australia's farm exports had not ...

Current account improves marginally in Q4

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2004
... outside world, blew out to a record $12.3 billion high in the June quarter last year with the drought, the weak world economy and the SARS epidemic. Today's figures showed the December quarter deficit was almost $1.4 billion higher than it was a year ...

World economy seems to be recovering: RBA

WITH AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2004
The world economy does seem to be recovering after three years of underperformance in the early part of this decade, according to the Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor (economic) Malcolm Edey. In an address at a Committee for the Economic ...