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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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... after debt-riddled Greece took a bailout from the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said that European banks "urgently" needed to recapitalise to weather the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2011
... Athens pledged a "superhuman" effort to stabilise its debt-stricken economy. A mission from the EU, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank was expected in Athens on Thursday to resume an audit vital to the release of rescue funds ...

Promises and plans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... flushing down the loo. Long on blahs, still short on (concrete) action. That's what we got from the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) weekend meeting. In its 24 September press release, the IMF told us that, "Today we agreed to act decisively to tackle ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... economic data included Italy's ratings downgrade - the sixth European nation to do so this year - and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) revising downwards its global growth forecast to four per cent. However, the IMF said Australia should expand ...