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Tug o' currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... headline inflation had become deflation (minus 0.1% in March) -- and expectations of a Fed lift-off pushed further back. The IMF foresaw this more than a month ago when it upgraded its eurozone growth forecast to 1.5% (from 1.2%) in 2015 and 1.6% (1.4%) ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... Friday, after hitting a more than three-month high at $US1.1467. Greece said on Monday it wants to reach a loan deal with its EU-IMF creditors by the end of May to resolve an acute cash shortage. Greece's new radical Syriza-led government and its EU-IMF ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... potential for a default. Nevertheless shortly before markets closed on Monday, news that Greece had made its repayment to the IMF helped reassure investors. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index slid 0.24 per cent to end the day at 7,029,85 points. The CAC ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
... LONDON - Europe's main stock markets slumped as market uncertainty resurfaced over Greece reaching a debt deal with its EU-IMF creditors. London's benchmark FTSE 100 slid 1.03 per cent to close at 7,030.53 points, with investor outlook also taking a ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... spread to Madrid, up 1.17 per cent, and Milan climbing 1.62 per cent. The naming of a new team to negotiate with Greece's EU-IMF creditors showed some "solid progress" and with the role of Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis in the talks reportedly ...

JPM launches market insights app for advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... explained. "All our charts and figures are either historical, factual or if there's forecast they come from institutions such as IMF, governments or market consensus, rather than our own forecasts." He explained that the data available for advisers in ...

Now for Australia's debt surge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... piece written by Jacob Greer in the Australian Financial Review (AFR) headed, " Australia has world's worst debt trajectory, IMF says" (http://www.afr.com/news/policy/budget/australia-has-worlds-worst-debt-trajectory-imf-says-20150415-1mlmwj). To horror ...

IMF predicts drop in foreign earnings

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... earnings and a drag on growth this year according to the International Monetary Fund's most recent World Economic Outlook. The IMF said the downturn in the global commodity cycle is continuing to hit Australia's economy and exacerbating a long-anticipated ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... countries and China's main trading partners - South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, US, Australia, Germany. Not so according to the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department division chief, Steven Bartnett, who predicts China's economy to slow to 6.75% this year from ...

Floating in money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
What lifts all boats? Nah, Virginia, it's no longer "a rising tide" - not if you believe the IMF's latest annual World Economic Outlook (WEO) report published this month where it printed, "Output across advanced and emerging market economies remains ...