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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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
... advance came as the G20 ministers devised plans to give more than $US1 trillion ($A1.4 trillion) to the International Monetary Fund and other institutions and create stricter rules for hedge funds. The Dow Jones Industrial Average settled up 216.48 points ...

Forecasting foibles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... the start of the year, quickly followed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Not to be outdone, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) quickly added a negative sign to its 0.5 per cent world growth prediction for 2009 just a month ago and divined that ...

Lift retirement age, lower long term benefits: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said countries should consider lifting their retirement ages, raising pension fund contribution rates and containing age-related expenditures such as health costs. The irony however is that countries with largely ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... exists. So when it re-appeared over the weekend, it had to be sensational. It was determined to top the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by coming out with a prediction that the global economy would contract 'for the first time since World War II, with ...