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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... the Greece's private bondholders, taking it one step closer to a chaotic default, and after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) downgraded its global growth forecast. But markets struggled off their lows following a solid auction of three- and six-month ...

Australian economic fundamentals solid: Swan

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... Monetary Fund's latest gloomy outlook for the world economy. In its latest World Economic Outlook update released today, the IMF downgraded global growth forecasts for this year from the 4% growth predicted in September to 3.3%. IMF projected growth ...

Forecasts shmorecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
We're doomed (again)! Oh-em-gee! "IMF slashes growth forecasts!" This was the last piece of news I saw before I went to bed last night and started snoring. Yeah, yeah I thought. Sure, sure. Somehow it didn't give me the same nerve-wracking punch that ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... pushed energy shares up 0.5 per cent, while news that Greece's debt talks are progressing and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) plans to boost its lending firepower for Europe buoyed risk appetite. News that closely watched investment bank Goldman ...

Wolf, wolf

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... wasn't only Access singing the gloom and doom tune at the time, it was every other international financial body - the ADB, the IMF, the OECD, the WB - you name it. It demonstrates how it's easy to get caught up in the mood of the moment and the silliness ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... finished mixed with Greece preparing to resume talks on a crucial debt write-off deal and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) saying it will raise new money to increase its financial firepower. Wall Street is trading higher. At 0830 AEDT on Thursday ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... control of China's monetary authorities," he said. Financial stocks shed one per cent after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it would put to the test the ability of Australia's banks to withstand a further deterioration in economic conditions ...

Plan 5 and counting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
... a change to qualified majority voting from mutual agreement (subject to Finnish approval). A, Additional resources for the IMF of up to EUR200bn through bilateral loans (confirmation within 10 days). Plan Five's a good read and a hopeful one at that. ...

Sovereigns need not apply

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
... press conference. And the rumoured "trick" to get around the EU Treaty whereby the ECB or national central banks lend to the IMF and the IMF turns around to buy Eurozone bonds? Forget it! Not going to happen. Or maybe... not yet. So now we're back waiting ...

Waiting to exhale 5

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... report saying that the G-20 is mulling a US$600 billion lending program for Europe through the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Just as quickly, CNBC's Steve Liesman twittered that, "Imf official denies 600b aid rumor." And where would we be without ...