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Bears out a-haunting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... correction in the market if this goes on for a month or longer." Just in time to join the chorus, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued its own warning. In its bi-annual World Economic Outlook (WEO) released overnight, the IMF warned that, "Reassessment ...

Withdrawal anxiety

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013

Greece what?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2013
... weapon - the OMTs. Except for the Greeks, that is. They're still begging for bailout. Earlier this week, the troika - EU, ECB, IMF - dropped a cool a,-6.8 billion into Athen's begging bowl. Another tranche amounting to about a,-3.0 billion is reportedly ...

Designer slowdown

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2013
... the GFC. China's shifting to growth that's more sustainable before its economic miracle ends in tears. You worried about the IMF's latest growth downgrade to its China economic growth projections -- from 8.1% (predicted in April) to 7.8% in 2013 and ...

Adjusting for adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... data -- the latest of which is the 3.1% fall in June that followed a paltry 1.0% increase in the previous month - and the IMF's recent reduction in its growth forecast to 7.8% for 2013 (from 8.1% it predicted in April) and 7.7% for 2014 (from 8.3%). ...

Reversing fortunes to another crisis?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher following gains on US and European bourses despite the IMF downgrading its global economies' growth forecast. The International Monetary Fund trimmed its world economic growth expectations for 2013 to 3.1 ...

Ghosts? What ghosts?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... derail Lisbon's recovery. There's also Greece - it might not get the next tranche of its bailout worth a,-8.1 billion. The IMF/EU/ECB troika has given Athens three days (two days and counting now) to show it's continuing to meet its bailout conditions ...

Ready for another take off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013
... "Clearly the economy is not back to normal, and to accept this as the new normal would be really wrong". Not just one but two. IMF deputy managing Director Zhu Min who said in the same forum but in a separate interview that, America's economy "is still ...

The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... Europe for this couldn't come at a worse time - a time when news just hit cyberspace that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) threatened to suspend aid payments to Greece and Cyprus requesting to renegotiate the terms of its bailout. Oh em gee! We're ...