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ECB exit: 2018 or 2021?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) sharp upgrade to Eurozone GDP growth. In its October 2017 World Economic Outlook (WEO) report, the IMF lifted its GDP forecasts to 2.1% this year and 1.9% in 2018 from the 1.7% and 1.6%, respectively, it predicted ...

Which part of the elephant are you holding?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
... 3.1 percent in 2016 to 3.5 percent in 2017 and 3.6 percent in 2018, slightly above the October 2016 World Economic Outlook (WEO) forecast". That's good. However, while the IMF may have gotten its prediction correct (this time), that of the World Bank's ...

Slow, slower, slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just published its October World Economic Outlook (WEO) report and true to form, it's once more taking down earlier more optimistic forecasts. In October 2015, the IMF saw world economic output growing brightly ...

No more tears?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... forecasts for the world... and found it slowing even more than its previous guesses. In its April World Economic Outlook (WEO) update, the IMF revealed that it now expects the global economy to grow by 3.2% this year, down from the 3.4% it predicted ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2016
IMF World Economic Outlook Another 3 months, another downgrade. In its April World Economic Outlook (WEO) update, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has yet again revised down its global growth forecasts. The IMF now expects the global economy to ...

China puts another one in the bag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... mounting over the Middle Kingdom's slowing economy in recent months but even the IMF, in its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) -- released 6 October -- left its growth prediction for China's economy unchanged from July's 6.8% this year and 6.3% the ...

Central banks of the world, coordinate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2015

Gold's no longer gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... rising inflation is a gold's best friend. Though given still weak global growth - and slowing according to the IMF's latest WEO update - gold might be waiting for its best friend a while longer. Perhaps the gold bears have been correct all along and ...

Floating in money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... 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 lower than ...

Wall Street snubs the IMF

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... wasn't captured in the headlines. Didn't see the IMF's inflation forecasts in most of the financial press, did you? Look at the WEO report and you'll see that while the IMF has upped by 0.1% both the 2014 and 2015 inflation predictions, it expects consumer ...