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Court approves Premium Income Fund settlement

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... The Federal Court has made orders approving the settlement of the class action against the failed Premium Income Fund (PIF). IMF Bentham confirmed the court's approval of the settlement, but did not say how much PIF unit holders will be receiving as ...

Bad tidings for Christmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... the leftist Syriza Party - the ones who have always promised to reverse austerity measures and un-cooperate with Greece's EU/IMF benefactors - might win. This sent the Euro Stoxx-50 index down by 2.6% and the broader Stoxx-600 off by 2.2% overnight. ...

Why the eurozone cannot afford cheap oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014
... the magazine, "A 10% change in the oil price is associated with around a 0.2% change in global GDP, says Tom Helbling of the IMF. A price fall normally boosts GDP by shifting resources from producers to consumers, who are more likely to spend their gains ...

China's mean regression

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2014
... growth and how long it could keep on going at current pace - be it PM Li's 7.5% target or the 7.3% third quarter rate or the IMF's 6.3% prediction by the end of the decade. The Economist cited a working paper by Lant Pritchett and Larry Summers of Harvard ...

US$200b a quarter to keep the bulls going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... blamed for the fall were blamed - growth (the slowness of it), deflation (the threat of it), ebola (the spread of it), the IMF, ISIS, Putin, oil, earnings, technicals, etc, etc etc. And then they hit... hard -- the central banks' jawbones, that is, whispering ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... for they might come true. 'Twas not so long ago that Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (FRBSF) and the IMF worried about complacency in the financial markets as indicated by low, down on the ground, volatility. Well they got their ...

Are we there yet?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2014
... the "here" - the start of 2014 - and then some. All because... investors suddenly looked at global growth - thanks to the IMF - and found that it was lacking and with the Fed poised to complete its QE this month and then onwards and upwards to higher ...

I wish I may, I wish I might

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... implying that this isn't a good thing. And just two days ago, in its Global Financial Stability report (released 8 October), the IMF noted that "...record-low volatility" suggests "that investors are complacent". Christmsa may have come early for Janet ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... turning the previous day's see on Wall Street into last night's saw. All are thanking the friendly International Monetary Fund (IMF) for opening up another entry point. But the rationale is really two sides of the same coin. The IMF's downgrade of its ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... Managing partner at 100 Doors, Peter Esho, said poor offshore leads had affected the Australian bourse on Wednesday. "The IMF downgraded global growth. The data coming out of Europe is no good, and commodity prices are heading lower," Mr Esho said. "So ...