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Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... been lobbying for some handout since the start of 2009. And while that other international body - the International Monetary Fund - was promised a tripling of its capital after the G20 Summit in London roundabout April Fool's day, the WB only received ...

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... economy follows the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) forecast of a 1 per cent contraction or the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) projection of a 1.3 per cent fall. In the fiscal year to June 1991, Australian real GDP declined by 1.6 per cent. The ...

Finance job market to recover by 2010

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... positive, the Government's outlook on the local jobs market as a whole is far from robust. Last week the International Monetary Fund predicted Australia's job market to contract and unemployment figures to rise to 8 per cent next year. Following the ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... was a strong performance from the market, amid gloomy predictions for the US economy released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). "It has been a very strong performance despite the doomsday odds acting against us overnight with the IMF report and ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
Danger, Will 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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... LONDON - Europe's leading stock markets rose on Wednesday despite a bleak economic report from the International Monetary Fund that forecast a slow recovery only from the second half of next year. London's FTSE 100 gained 43.2 points, or 1.08 per cent ...

Out with the new old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
... debt to reach US$4,100,000,000,000. Yeah...yeah. Sure...sure. I am so scared. Wall Street ignored the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR). This is because while delivered fresh off the printing presses only yesterday ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... than expected company results. That was despite forecasts of a deep and prolonged recession from the International Monetary Fund. "The economic numbers out of the US overnight weren't great but the market seems to have let through to the keeper," he ...

IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
What are they up to? What do they hope to accomplish? I am talking, of course, about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and our very own Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan. What do they have in common? Both still have not learned their lessons. Both want ...

GFC Problem solved

... rules of the capitalism game - there is more to this than meets the eye. The G20 resolved to boost the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) resources by US$500 billion, gave the World Bank (WB) US$100 billion plus US$250 billion for trade financing. If ...