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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... Stock Exchange. Trading 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 ...

Straus-Kahn stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
The GFC has claimed another victim, and it's no other 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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... have to restructure its debt and as Portugal negotiated what is expected to be very tough bailout package with the EU and IMF. Among the British banks, Barclays lost 3.63 per cent and Lloyds Banking Group 2.13 per cent and European lenders were also ...

Laissez faire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... can help it. The International Monetary and Financial Committee, the steering committee for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), met on 16 April 2011 to discuss the state of the global economy and global finance, as you would expect them to do. There ...

All up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 APR 2011
... picked up by the financial press for the rationale behind the fall in commodity prices is the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) lowering of its growth forecast for the US and Japan - and that was only yesterday. The IMF didn't do another revision - ...

Buying op

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... painters! Crude oil prices has pulled back after reaching a high of only US$112.79 a barrel. Apparently, according to the IMF, the US and Japanese economies are already being hurt by oil prices at current levels. Who was it that said, "the cure for high ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... quarterly results season off to a bad start and hit investors who had been betting that the US economy was picking up momentum. An IMF downgrade of its US growth forecast alongside a weakening in an investor confidence survey in Germany added to the ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... there, done that! There's news out of Europe concerning Portugal. Lisbon officials are meeting with a delegation from the IMF, the ECB and the EU to discuss the terms of its bailout, whispered to total around 80 billion euros. Oh yes, there's also the ...

Unshaken and unstirred

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... Euro Stoxx 50 index fell by less than 0.3 per cent overnight. And this in spite of Portugal now going cap-in-hand to the EU/IMF for a bailout whispered to be around 75 billion euros (US$107 billion). Spain's surely next in line. But if that's the case ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... per cent from a record low 1.00 per cent was widely anticipated. Portugal's decision to seek a debt rescue from the EU and IMF, after Greece and Ireland last year, was no surprise and had little market impact. The Lisbon market closed 1.18 per cent higher ...