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Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... been silenced because recent indicators are showing that the global recovery is picking up speed. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently lifted its outlook for world economic growth to 4.4 per cent this year and 4.5 per cent in 2012. Ahh, but ...

I heart the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... "...Australia's terms of trade... look like they will peak higher and later than we had previously assumed." The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) has recently lifted its outlook for world economic growth to 4.4 per cent this year and 4.5 per cent ...

Downgrade me

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... international agencies and, God help us, credit rating agencies. In its latest Fiscal Monitor report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) conveyed its disappointment over progress towards budget tightening in the United States, Japan, Brazil and Europe. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... said the local market had followed a weak lead from Wall Street after details of European Union and International Monetary Fund loans were unveiled in Brussels. Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen said the deal was vital to allowing debt-laden Ireland to ...

Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... action there unlike what happened over the weekend when the G-7 Ministers met in Washington for the International Monetary Fund's annual meeting. It was supposed to be a very important meeting where the money chiefs of the biggest seven economies in ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... international trade. This is the policy that prolonged the Great Depression. This is not lost on the International Monetary Fund. In an interview with The Financial Times, IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned that, "There is clearly the idea beginning ...

Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... party! Hip, hip... But a party would not be complete without the obligatory spoilsports. Cue in the International Monetary Fund. In a Bloomberg interview, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned that, "We're not safe yet." Because "The recovery ...

New-found optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... dinners. Talking heads, printed and cyber-media point attribute last night's gains on Wall Street to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) lifting of its global growth forecast and the better-than-expected US initial unemployment claims. Been there ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... as sentiment lifted on a drop in the number of Americans registering for jobless benefits, and the International Monetary Fund's upward revision of global growth forecast. The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped 120.71 points, or 1.20 per cent, to settle ...

Every recovery starts jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... target of around 10 per cent growth this year. It will have it -- give or take a few points. Even the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) think so -- ...