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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... Wednesday unveiled more painful cuts to unlock bankruptcy-saving loans from the European Union and International Monetary Fund. HONG KONG - Asian stock markets slumped as the US Federal Reserve's latest multi-billion-dollar move to shore up the American ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... 0.07 per cent and Lisbon added 0.38 per cent. Banks faced fresh selling pressure, one day after the International Monetary Fund (IMF)and the European Commission (EC) warned about the health of lenders exposed to Greece's debt mountain and indicated that ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... on the local market. "The IMF growth downgrade has also been a pall over the market," he said. The International Monetary Fund lowered its growth forecasts for the global economy to four per cent for 2011 and 2012, and warned of a return to recession ...

IMF says prepare to buy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... which seemed to have been trigger-happy these past few months - wave upon wave of downgrades but the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) recent admission that it has capitulated to the forces of negativism and has now slashed its global growth projections. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... focused on Greece's bailout talks with its lenders, the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund, for a new installment on its rescue package. The market also was anticipating the end of the US central bank's two-day meeting ...

Glimmer of hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... Greece's meeting with the troika of alms-givers - the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. The conclusion (for now), their emergency over-the-weekend meeting produced a 'near' agreement that Greece will be saved... ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... after the Greek finance ministry reported "productive and substantive" talks with its lenders, the EU, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Central Bank (ECB), to hammer out a response to serious slippage from agreed budget targets. Markets ...

Dangerous currents

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... growth forecast downgrades from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to see how dangerous the current 'currents' have become. And just last night, EU Economic Affairs Commissioner Olli ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... an eventual "confederal" disciplined management of eurozone national finances. And the head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, repeated her warning that banks in Europe need extra capital to withstand any contagion from the eurozone ...

IMF just as baffled as we are

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... is ironically one of the biggest threats to the world economy, warns the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde. Writing in the Financial Times, Lagarde said world economic confidence has again been shaken and this is ...