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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... lower at 4565, with 10,012 contracts traded. A positive review of Greece's public finances from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union, along with approval for the fifth instalment of a 110-billion-euro ($A150 billion) bailout package ...

Australian market to shrug off Greek woes

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... Greece is estimated to have unsustainable debt of $456 billion with the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund and other European governments all keen to avoid bearing the brunt of another bailout operation. "The situation has worsened ...

Can't hear you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... US$104 per share from US$106. Despite Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker revealing that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may not release its portion of a 12 billion-euro (US$17 billion) aid payment to Greece next month. Bloomberg explains ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... Manhattan Hotel and get away with it. The allegations alone cost him the Managing Director job at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and a few days in the slammer. He's recently bought his temporary freedom with a US$1 million bail plus a US$5 million ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... concerns about Europe's debt dragged stocks lower for a second day. The arrest of the head of the International Monetary Fund is expected to make solving the problems more difficult. Technology companies sustained the largest losses in Monday trading. ...

Straus-Kahn stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
The GFC has claimed another victim, and it's no other than the chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and French presidential candidate-in-waiting Monsieur Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The 62-year old Strauss-Kahn has been arrested on charges of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... posted in March and a Dow Jones forecast for $US1 billion ($A929 million) in April. The European Union, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank (ECB) began an audit of finances and reforms in Greece to determine whether it merits a critical ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... Australian Industry Group/Pricewaterhouse performance of manufacturing (PMI) index for April. The International Monetary Fund will release its Regional Economic Outlook for Asia and the Pacific. In companies news, explosives maker Orica Ltd will release ...

Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... French can help it. The International Monetary and Financial Committee, the steering committee for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), met on 16 April 2011 to discuss the state of the global economy and global finance, as you would expect them to ...

All up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... reason picked up by the financial press for the rationale behind the fall in commodity prices is the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) lowering of its growth forecast for the US and Japan - and that was only yesterday. The IMF didn't do another revision ...