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Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... International Monetary Fund (IMF) which lifted China's 2017 GDP growth projection to 6.8% in its October World Economic Outlook report - up from 6.6% it forecast in April this year - before easing to 6.5% next year. The roadmap provided in the 19th National ...

Japanese sun rises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
... underpin Japanese exports. The improved outlook on the Japanese economy and company earnings. In its World Economic Outlook report for October, the IMF upgraded its GDP growth forecasts to 1.5% in 2017 and 0.7% in 2018, up by 0.3 percentage points and ...

Which part of the elephant are you holding?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
... cheap Australian dollar, should continue to underpin export growth. This is in line with the IMF's World Economic Outlook report update last month which stated that, "With buoyant financial markets and a long-awaited cyclical recovery in manufacturing ...

Promises promises and broken promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... mighty Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) thinks the same way. In its latest Economic Outlook report, the OECD warned that, "Given the near-term uncertainties in the rebalancing of the economy away from investment in the resource ...

Victim of success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... Fund (IMF) to upgrade 2013 and 2014 growth forecasts for the nation in the October update of its World Economic Outlook Report to 1.4% in 2013 (up 0.5% from July) and 1.9% next year (up 0.4%). A victim of its own success. The bad news is that these positive ...

RBA decisions decisions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
... would have to ease policy sometime this year - preferably before the 14 September elections. In its latest Economic Outlook report published last week, the OECD hinted at this: "The surge in mining investment, which is likely to peak in 2013, is gradually ...

Bad news? Where?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... contra indicators - the IMF - has done it again! Only three days ago, the IMF released its latest World Economic Outlook report, where it slashed next year's global growth forecast down to 3.9% (from April's 4.1%) because "downside risks to this weaker ...

Instant replay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2012
... Speaking of which, Europeans seemed to be moving towards the prescriptions contained in its latest World Economic Outlook report. These are: less emphasis on short-term fiscal austerity and more on longer-term structural measures to reduce deficits ...

Forecasts shmorecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... country or region. It is about saving the world from a downward economic spiral." In its latest World Economic Outlook report, the IMF lowered its global growth projection to 3.3% this year (down from 4% forecast last September) and 3.9% in 2013 (down ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... Robinson! Danger, Danger! No. I am not talking about the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) new World Economic Outlook report detailing how its forecasters changed their mind (again!) and now think that global growth would contract by 1.3 per cent this ...