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Wall Street up till it was down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2013
... Monetary Fund will lower its growth forecast for the U.S., where $85 billion in spending cuts are due to begin tomorrow, an IMF spokesman said. "Sequestration in the U.S. is one of the key issues of the moment," William Murray told reporters in Washington ...

Fear is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... Italy, no matter who's at the helm. If the European Union or the European Central Bank or the International Monetary Fund (IMF) cannot make Italy toe the line on austerity, the bond vigilantes will. But it's not only the goings-on in Italy, there were ...

Open wide, come inside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... nearly double the MSCI Emerging Markets Index's gain of 13.9% -- and has risen another 2.6% so far in the new year despite the IMF's recent downgrade of the country's 2013 growth to 5.9% from 6.0%. While the Asian Development Bank (ADB) appears to be ...

Good, better, best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... through the macro stats and surveys released over the past 24 hours. Never mind reports of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) lowering its world growth forecast anew - down to 3.5% from 3.6% it predicted in October -- like most guesses, it could be ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
... stimulus measures, while investors digested the news that a Greek debt buy-back scheme designed to release much needed EU-IMF bailout funds appears to have progressed smoothly. London's FTSE 100 advanced 0.35 per cent to close at 5,945.85 points, while ...

Diamond in the region

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... according to the 'Philippine Daily Inquirer', "The country is the only economy in the world which the International Monetary Fund (IMF) believes will grow faster than earlier expected this year." This is evident in the outperformance of the Philippine ...

Interest rates to tumble below 2.5%: BlackRock

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... The investment specialist says that the rosy picture of the Australian economy painted in the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) latest review belies a softening in key economic data and a potential setback from the slowing mining sector. "The mining ...

Sweeet!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... oh, Greece only needs to reduce its debt to 124% of GDP by 2020 and not the 120.5% set in the second bailout or the 120% the IMF demanded. Sweeet! Perhaps it'll be third time lucky for Greece. But this is highly doubtful given the huge amount of their ...

Abernathy snubs IMF liquidity drivel

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... shackle our liquid banks, says Clime Asset Management's John Abernathy. In a new report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the big four banks - Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, ANZ and NAB - should be forced to hold extra capital to help protect ...

Corporate spending the catalyst for global markets

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... remains worrying that analysts are still forecasting 10% per annum earnings growth. If the world economy remains as sluggish as IMF forecasts expect, he continued, then companies may find it difficult to meet such expectations. "Investors are, on balance ...