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Cognacs and chocolates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... casualty is Ireland - rumoured overnight that it may ask the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for assistance if the economic outlook deteriorates further. The Irish government was quick to deny the rumours but where there's smoke.... Elsewhere in Europe ...

Knife falls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... Market Intelligence index of US economic optimism fell to 45 in December from 50.8 in the previous month, with the economic outlook index declining to 47.2 from 55.4 in November. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) forecasts manufacturing sector ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), deputy governor, economics, Malcolm Edey addresses the Australia and Japan Economic Outlook conference in Sydney, and in Melbourne, RBA governor Glenn Stevens addresses the Committee for Economic Development of Australia's ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... share market closed down two and a half per cent as investors remained concerned about the continuing gloomy economic outlook. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 95.1 points, or 2.54 per cent, at 3,653, while the broader All Ordinaries index lost ...

Mine's bigger than yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... is already flooding the system. The dire straits the global economy is in is reflected in the latest IMF World Economic Outlook, which now expects world economic growth to slow to 2.2 percent in 2009, down from the 3 per cent it predicted just a month ...

Three wise economists

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... US government to implement a 'well-targeted' fiscal stimulus package to contain further deterioration in the economic outlook, adding that the package should be designed to limit longer-term negative impact on the US government's growing deficit. These ...

Search for equilibrium

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
... weakened across all 12 Fed districts, with consumers reducing their spending and businesses concerned over the economic outlook. The preliminary Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index fell to 57.5 in October from 70.3 in the previous ...

No instant gratification

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... weakened across all 12 Fed districts, with consumers reducing their spending and businesses concerned over the economic outlook. According to the Beige Book, manufacturing activity 'slowed in most Districts,' the residential property sector 'remained ...

Motivational advice for advisers

FINANCIAL STANDARD IS THE OFFICIAL MEDIA PARTNER OF THE AFA CONFERENCE  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... getting hit by the market crash, their property portfolios getting hit by the ongoing property slump and the gloomy economic outlook creating job-related anxiety. But it is during this period that advisers should rise to the occasion to help those who ...

The global recession we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... the tide around in time. More coordinated rate cuts are forthcoming, and so is a global recession. In its World Economic Outlook, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that, 'The world economy is now entering a major downturn in the face of the ...