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You can forget June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... information that would accrue by the time of the June meeting would likely indicate sufficient improvement in the economic outlook to lead the Committee to judge that its conditions for beginning policy firming had been met. Many participants, however ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015
... LONDON - European stock markets have closed mostly lower as more disappointing Chinese data weighed on the global economic outlook, and investors awaited developments in Greece's debt stand-off. Frankfurt's benchmark DAX 30 index closed down 1.21 per ...

IMF predicts drop in foreign earnings

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... foreign earnings and a drag on growth this year according to the International Monetary Fund's most recent World Economic Outlook. The IMF said the downturn in the global commodity cycle is continuing to hit Australia's economy and exacerbating a long-anticipated ...

Floating in money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... lifts all boats? Nah, Virginia, it's no longer "a rising tide" - not if you believe the IMF's latest annual World Economic Outlook (WEO) report published this month where it printed, "Output across advanced and emerging market economies remains much ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... as 7,027.33 points in morning deals, extending its recent record run on a wave of investor optimism over the economic outlook. It closed at 7,037.67 points, up 0.22 per cent from Friday's close. Frankfurt's DAX 30 index slumped 1.19 per cent to 11,895.84 ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... of last year and by 0.8% in the second - rising inflation in the country prevents it from doing so. Brazil's economic outlook is bogged down by increased political uncertainty (corruption scandal) - despite President Dilma Rousseff's winning the October ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... meeting. The ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence survey is due out and the Australia, Japan and International Economic Outlook seminar is on in Sydney. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Monday closed lower, dragged ...

Investor sentiment shifting overseas

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
Deflation, rising debt and dampening economic outlooks that are limiting returns expectations are forcing investors to pursue more positive opportunities overseas rather than invest in Australia. Australia is becoming less attractive because even though ...

BOJ optimistic as forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2015
... BOJ's 2% target. Spoiler alert. The minutes of the FOMC's 27-28 January meeting could again railroad the BOJ's economic outlook with the yen/US$ rising by to A¥118.71 from A¥119.25 in overnight trade - after the Fed said that, "Many participants indicated ...

Australian dividend growth leads Asia Pacific

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2015
... income Alex Crooke said. "Since we introduced our 2015 forecast, three key things have changed: first, the global economic outlook has clouded; secondly, the oil price has collapsed to a six year low and thirdly, the US dollar has surged in value. "Overall ...