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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 ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... client adviser Trent Muller said several factors were pulling back the local bourse, including an International Monetary Fund downgrade of economic growth forecasts for the United States. Another earthquake in Japan had affected sentiment on Asian markets ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... higher oil and food costs on corporate margins. Stocks turned lower in afternoon trading after the International Monetary Fund said that higher gas prices could slow the pace of the US economy and offset the boost from the Federal Reserve's bond-buying ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... adjustment is needed because of rising commodity prices, it would only be "modest". Been there... Even the International Monetary Fund's latest World Economic Outlook released overnight had nothing fresh to add. It still believes that the global economy ...

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... elevated for some time, El-Arian is correct, there would be "higher inflation and lower growth". But the International Monetary Fund (IMF) doesn't think so. Its managing director, John Lipsky thinks that, "It's unlikely it would make a substantial change ...