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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... despite a welter of what would normally be bad news. Dealers said a report that Italy was to get an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout, later flatly denied, was taken positively as offering a way out for one of the most heavily indebted eurozone ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
... third quarter. Concerns over the eurozone debt crisis also continued to drag on sentiment, despite the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announcing the expansion of a credit line aimed at helping some countries protect themselves from contagion. Sydney ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... third quarter. Concerns over the eurozone debt crisis also continued to drag on sentiment, despite the International Monetary Fund (IMF) announcing the expansion of a credit line aimed at helping some countries protect themselves from contagion. Sydney ...

Perspective not perplexing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... the first quarter of 2009 - most were still contracting in the second quarter of 2009. My point? The International Monetary Fund is predicting world growth to slow from 5.1% in 2010 to 4% in 2011 and 2012. What's scary about that? My calculation shows ...

Economist and former EU commissioner appointed Italian PM designate

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... on Europe's other troubled member, Greece, amid reports troika representatives (inspectors from the International Monetary Fund, the European Central bank and EU) are due to arrive in Athens today, to ensure the country's new prime minister Lucas Papademos ...

Australia's retirement system the most sustainable in the world

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... most pressure. Despite pension reforms initiated as a condition of the austerity packages from the International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank, the retirement age in Greece is still low and public replacement rates (the percentage of a worker's ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... offshore session as signs emerged Greece's nascent unity government would commit to the European Union-International Monetary Fund bailout. But the rally was not sustained, as metals and minerals stocks, as well as those in the financial sector, gave ...

APRA: Investment world still clouded with uncertainty

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... intensity of its supervisory and policy activities going forward, as the global crisis enters "what the International Monetary Fund has described as a 'dangerous new phase'". "In its 2010 Report, APRA said it was not ready to reduce the intensity of ...

Indonesia to defy world growth forecasts

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... 2011 and 2012 from a slowing 3% this year to 2.9% in 2012, only marginally above the 2% threshold the International Monetary Fund and World Bank see as a technical global recession. In Citi 's downgrade sights were the US, Europe, Japan, Canada, the ...

Sounds like a plan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... July next year. And, if they pull this one off, they might even get a lending hand bonus from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Sounds like a plan. The bad news - the problem has been kicked down the road to this coming weekend (23 October) at the ...