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Perfect timing for a "perfect storm" alert

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... March quarter of 2012 - two years ago it was growing at a 7%-9% clip. And to round it all up, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) head honcha, Christine Lagarde, stated last week that the IMF will be slashing its 2012 global growth prediction. My ...

IMF issues buy order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... definitely not because we've seen the backside of the European debt crisis. This indicator, Virgie, is International Monetary Fund (IMF) and its regular updates of its growth projections. It is one of my fave contrarian indicators because almost always ...

BRIC slows on Europe woes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... Finance Minister Guido Mantega announced last night that them BRICs would be "going to make an additional contribution to the IMF that will be announced at the leaders' meeting" at Los Cabos, Mexico. The BRICs would contribute a total US$70 billion to ...

Greece chooses pain to pain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... change, the more they stay the same. And what now of QE expectations? Or ECB intervention? Or additional fighting fund for the IMF? For these we'll have to wait after the conclusion of the G-20 meeting and after the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy ...

QE hope - must be getting tough again?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... "three to four more years of stagnation," warned Nissan Motor and Renault chief executive Carlos Ghosn. Perhaps so tough that IMF managing director Christine Lagarde has called on "policymakers need to take decisive steps to break free of the crisis." ...

PIG now officially PIGS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... following the weekend announcement to 'lend' it more money -- 100 billion - than it needed -- 37 billion according to initial IMF estimates (upped to 60-80 bil two days later) - to recapitalise its bankrupt banks. Were it not for the Queen's Birthday ...

Eurozone to craft a reforms roadmap

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... more radical parties. The June 17 vote will determine whether Greece will meet the terms of a deal under which the EU and the IMF agreed to lend it hundreds of billions of euros in return for economic reforms.

Down and out in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... Greek election polls have flipped towards the pro-bailout party last night (yipeee!), the Wall Street Journal reports that the IMF "has started discussing contingency plans for a rescue loan to Spain" if the government proves unable to bail out its banking ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2012
... - whereby strong and weak eurozone countries would pool their ability to borrow - despite calls from other members and the IMF to consider this option. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies plunged 2.53 per cent to 5,566.41 points, while ...

That anxious wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... spare no one. Developed and developing country growth rates could fall by as much or more than in 2008-09." I can also hear IMF head honcha, Christine Lagarde, going gloat, gloat, gloat. Less than a week after the WB announced its warning, she too went ...