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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012
... jobs data and weak earnings from major banks offset any positive impact from the US Federal Reserve's latest economic outlook. On Wednesday, the Fed said it would keep interest rates at super-low levels until at least 2014 and forecast the world's biggest ...

Wow on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... good fella. But because "strains in global financial markets continue to pose significant downside risks to the economic outlook... we remain prepared to do more as needed to make sure that this recovery continues and that inflation stays close to target." ...

In it to win it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
... matter where the IMF warned that, "the risk of things turning bad again in Europe is high," in its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) report. Nonetheless, the latest WEO provided a positive picture of the world economy overall. The IMF upgraded its ...

Best friends forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... this. In her very long speech before the Money Marketeers of New York University in New York, New York on "The Economic Outlook and Monetary Policy, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Janet Yellen told her audience that while she expects "the economic recovery ...

Indonesian inflation falls to 4.25pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
The outlook for oil prices is still the wildcard for the economic outlook across the Asian region, according to the latest market update from Indonesia's Mandiri Investasi. Adding to the speculation is that central governments are trying to control ...

No QE, not bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
... Strains in global financial markets have eased, though they continue to pose significant downside risks to the economic outlook. The recent increase in oil and gasoline prices will push up inflation temporarily, but the Committee anticipates that subsequently ...

Wheel of fortune

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... fortnight later, even the unchanged outlook for the US economy has been changed. In its interim assessment of the economic outlook, the OECD lifted its US Q1 and Q2 2012 growth projections to 2.9% and 2.8%, respectively - up from 1.7% and 1.9% it predicted ...

All that jazz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2012
... percent." Not exactly the gloom you're reading in the headlines today, is it? The investment environment and the economic outlook haven't changed that much - or at all - since yesterday when Wall Street and all the other equity markets that follow it ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
... ground as investors paused for breath, following last week's gains that were rooted in optimism over the global economic outlook and the Greek debt crisis. HONG KONG - Asian shares have mostly risen on the back of lingering optimism over the recovery ...

When optimism rains, it pours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... Virginia? Heading into 2012, we were staring at more challenges, more pain, more money to be lost because the global economic outlook was not conducive to making mo' money. No sir! Better stuff your savings under the bed. Greece will default - Portugal ...