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Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... "days of fear" combined, yet most equity markets ended on the up and up. No Virginia, I'm not talking about ol' Dominique Strauss-Kahn learning that he can't do what he allegedly did to a maid in a Manhattan Hotel and get away with it. The allegations ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... financial markets were so eager to milk the Eurozone bad news that they've even dragged soon-to-be former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn's inability to keep it in his pants into the sovereign debt crisis equation. Then there's the game of chicken currently ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... volume was 3.5 billion shares. LONDON - Europe's main stock markets dipped on fears that the arrest of IMF boss Dominique Strauss-Khan could hit efforts to tame the eurozone debt crisis, as EU finance ministers met to discuss rescues for Portugal and ...

Straus-Kahn stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... than the chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and French presidential candidate-in-waiting Monsieur Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The 62-year old Strauss-Kahn has been arrested on charges of a criminal sex act, attempted rape and unlawful imprisonment ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... Depression. This is not lost on the International Monetary Fund. In an interview with The Financial Times, IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned that, "There is clearly the idea beginning to circulate that currencies can be used as a policy weapon... ...

Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... obligatory spoilsports. Cue in the International Monetary Fund. In a Bloomberg interview, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned that, "We're not safe yet." Because "The recovery is not enough, you need to have a recovery with jobs." The ...

A stitch in time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
... "Markets are going to like" Beijing's announcement. Yes it's all good Virginia. Because as IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn explains, deciding to give its currency flexibility "will help increase Chinese household income and provide the incentives ...

Global Sovereign Crisis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... banks, but who will save the governments? Brace for contagion. International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn was quoted in Le Parisien saying that, "There is always a risk of contagion." This is echoed by European Central Bank ...

Troubled Greece to freeze pensions

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... Greece's grave fiscal imbalances, make the economy more competitive and, over time, restore growth and jobs," said Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund. "In addition, the government is taking decisive steps to ...

Seek and thou shalt find

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2010
... the IMF wants extended to the rest of the world. According to the Wall Street Journal, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said that "there was broad agreement on the need for consensus and coordination in the reform of the global financial ...