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Now where have I heard that before?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... one (the start of a bigger correction) or another dip begging to be bought? This time it's the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that did it. Its crystal ball now shows the world growing by 3.3% this year (from 3.4% predicted in July) and 3.8% (from ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after international markets as the IMF cut the eurozone growth outlook and German industrial output slumped. At 0645 AEDT on Wednesday, the December share price index futures contract was down 56 points ...

Hot property on notice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... of which would cause nasty consequences for the economy. There is no argument that Australian property prices are frothy. IMF research published about three months ago showed Australian property is the third most expensive in the developed world based ...

US bond market says not yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... geo-political risks - Putin and the Ukraine, Israel and Hamas, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, etc - and rising volatility, there's the IMF "advising" China to slow its economic growth, there's the US economy growing strongly that the Fed could start jacking up ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2014
... Office for National Statistics said. The economy is now 0.2 per cent bigger than before its pre-GFC peak in early 2008. The IMF predicts Britain will be the fastest-growing major world economy in 2014. The euro fell to $US1.3433 from $US1.3464 at the ...

Wall Street snubs the IMF

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... remains at 4 percent." This is the first bullet point one will read when one clicks on the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) website where it published its July "World Economic Outlook Update". Yet Wall Street appeared to have missed it - the S&P 500 ...

S&P, ABN Amro appeals rejected in landmark ruling

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... proportionately liable as was stipulated in the earlier judgement. The judgement also adds weight to the claim being funded by Bentham IMF and launched last December against ABN AMRO/RBS and S&P in the Netherlands on behalf of 15 institutional investors ...

A BRICS R5 Bank is born

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2014
... countries now have their very own 'go to" bank - one that is not headed by an American like the World Bank or a European like the IMF - a development bank that better knows the intricacies of a developing economy. But far from being a competition to ...

Here we go again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... some. Not anymore. That was yesterday's news my lady. Today it's all about weak growth. Bloomberg even had to bring back what IMF managing director Christine Lagarde told her audience in France last Sunday. According to Bloomberg, Mademoiselle Lagarde ...

S&P denied appeal over landmark ruling

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2014
... by Lehman Brothers in Australia in the lead up to the GFC. The litigation process has been funded and actioned by Bentham IMF. S&P sought last year in the Federal Court to have the claim brought against it set aside on the grounds that the claim was ...