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IMF says prepare to buy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... seemed to have been trigger-happy these past few months - wave upon wave of downgrades but the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) recent admission that it has capitulated to the forces of negativism and has now slashed its global growth projections. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... by ratings agency Standard & Poor's and as Greece, struggling to avert a default, awaited more talks with auditors from the IMF, European Union and European Central Bank. At close on Tuesday, London's FTSE-100 index of leading shares rose 1.98 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... Greek finance ministry reported "productive and substantive" talks with its lenders, the EU, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and European Central Bank (ECB), to hammer out a response to serious slippage from agreed budget targets. Markets were increasingly ...

Dangerous currents

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... forecast downgrades from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to see how dangerous the current 'currents' have become. And just last night, EU Economic Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... dragging down eurozone growth as finance ministers headed for talks aimed at bridging splits over the crisis. WASHINGTON - IMF chief Christine Lagarde is pressing US and European leaders to take bolder action to rescue their economies, warning that indecision ...

Damned to default

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... sovereign debt in its sights. There's no question in my mind that Greece will default unless of course, the ECB, EU and the IMF showers it with more money and/or holders of Greek bonds forgive its debts. The thing is if additional money and/or forgiveness ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... for France as well. Greece announced on Sunday 2 billion euros ($A2.62 billion) in budget cuts demanded by the EU and the IMF to unlock more funds under its 110-billion euro rescue package to avoid a default. EU Economy Commissioner Olli Rehn welcomed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... opening on Wall Street, driven down by scepticism over a US jobs stimulus and doubts about European banks, especially after the IMF chief reiterated her urgent plea that lenders recapitalise in view of their holdings of Greek debt. Led by bank stocks ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... main index closed up 7.98 per cent, cheered by government pledges to speed up privatisation and reforms days after EU and IMF representatives cut short a visit to determine whether to grant more bailout aid. Germany's top court ruled on Wednesday that ...

IMF just as baffled as we are

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... act now on these priorities, confidence can be restored and the recovery sustained," Lagarde wrote almost pleadingly. So the IMF has no idea; well at least they're honest enough to admit to it. But who cares? It's September, it's finals and World Cup ...