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Taking a breather

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... The old but still bad news. IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn told a German newspaper that its World Economic Outlook would show a downward revision to global growth when it is released this week. Unless it is worse than the 0.5 to 1 per cent ...

Pocketing the change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... Americans. The IBD/TIPP index of economic optimism rose to 49.1 in April from 45.3 in the previous month. The economic outlook index rose to 50.2 from 40.2 in March and the personal outlook index increased to 52.7 from 51.1. Wait there's more. US weekly ...

Forecasting foibles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... predicted to continue forever and a bust would continue towards the depths of hell. Here's proof. In its World Economic Outlook report dated 29 January 2008, the IMF printed, 'global growth is projected at 4.1 percent in 2008, down from 4.9 percent in ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... volume of 108,531 contracts. Burrell Stockbroking associate Peter Wright said investors were still wary about the economic outlook, but strength in commodity prices was buoying the market. "The volumes are underwhelming again," Mr Wright said. "But this ...

Thank you RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... Australian fourth quarter GDP figures come out worse-than-expected, I am feeling more confident about Australia's economic outlook. Thank you RBA.

The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... services as global demand dries up and weak consumer spending weakens some more as confidence shatters. Poor as the economic outlook is, the ECB remains hesitant towards cutting interest rates as fast and as aggressively as the central banks of the United ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
... index bucked the regional trend to rise almost 1 per cent on Thursday, lifted by growing optimism about China's economic outlook. The blue-chip Hang Seng Index rose 115.01 points, or 0.9 per cent, to 13,178.9, but closed well off its highs. WELLINGTON ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... suffering a worse hangover than the US? Clue: Its name also starts with the word United. In its latest World Economic Outlook report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted that global growth would slow to only 0.5 per cent in 2009 after advancing ...

Bonds no safer than houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2009
Flight to safety? Really? Fears about the economic outlook and a helping hand from the US Federal Reserve has pushed up the US bond market over the past few months. Fresh signs that the American economic recession is deepening - and so is the world's ...

Self-fulfilling prophecy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... Labour Force report for December 2008 when headlines flashed one after another about how woeful the domestic economic outlook is going to be given the reported job losses. It was as if economic and finance reporters already had their pieces written even ...