Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 151 - 160 of 363 results for "International Monetary Fund"

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 ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
... on US and European bourses despite the IMF downgrading its global economies' growth forecast. The International Monetary Fund trimmed its world economic growth expectations for 2013 to 3.1 per cent from the April forecast of 3.3 per cent. At 0815 AEST ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... resigned in the wake of the finance minister, and after a report that Greece's bailout lenders, the International Monetary Fund, the European Union and the European Central Bank, had given Athens three days to demonstrate its reforms were still on track. ...

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 ...