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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 ...

Interest rates to tumble below 2.5%: BlackRock

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... Miller. The investment specialist says that the rosy picture of the Australian economy painted in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) latest review belies a softening in key economic data and a potential setback from the slowing mining sector. "The ...

Abernathy snubs IMF liquidity drivel

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... unnecessarily shackle our liquid banks, says Clime Asset Management's John Abernathy. In a new report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the big four banks - Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, ANZ and NAB - should be forced to hold extra capital to ...

Planners ignore EMs when advising clients

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... surveyed, 83% said that their financial planner had never mentioned investing in countries that the International Monetary Fund predicts will account for 60% of the world's economic growth over the next five years. Nearly all of those surveyed said that ...

Ten-year future vs. 10-minute tick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... anxiety. You would think that the great minds of the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund (and while you're at it include the great minds of expert bloggers) would have cut Greece loose by now if it was that easy ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... a long-awaited report from its troika of creditors - the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund - is "positive". But Germany said only part of the troika's latest report was available, and a final decision was not immediately ...

It's raining, it's pouring good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... on the upside. It's still early days to go gangnam (hey, sexey leydey) but we may be witnessing the International Monetary Fund (IMF) doing its job one more time - as a contrarian indicator, that is. I've tracked the IMF's track record going back to ...

Treats not threats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... was the week when the spooks went out a-haunting. The Asian Development Bank, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were out like a three-headed monster, singing Michael Jackson's 'Thriller': "The foulest stench is in the air The funk of ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... Reserve. Traders were also following a lead from Wall Street and European investors in the wake of the International Monetary Fund's decision to slash its global growth forecasts, while concerns over the upcoming corporate earnings season also weighed ...