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Fed money drives black swans away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... seems to be no worries for the Eurozone too, even after Portugal announced that - dare they say it, it would be seeking EU/IMF financing bail out. What happened to Spain would be next in line? What happened to contagion? Spanish bond yields actually ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
... stricken banks needed another 24 billion euros to cover losses, taking very nearly all the money set aside for them under its EU-IMF bailout terms. Another rise in eurozone inflation -- to 2.6 per cent in March from 2.4 per cent in February -- appeared ...

No-bull bull market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... Ireland reporting a 1.6 per cent slump in fourth quarter real GDP (because it agreed to austerity measures in return for EU/IMF aid), China and other emerging markets remain in tightening mode, and just last night, Burma and Thailand were shaken by a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... of the Portuguese government on Wednesday and the increasing likelihood Lisbon will need to seek a debt rescue from the EU-IMF, like Greece and Ireland last year, also seems to have been taken into account, they said. Some analysts suggested however ...

Capitalism killed Mars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2011

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... for some time, El-Arian is correct, there would be "higher inflation and lower growth". But the International Monetary Fund (IMF) doesn't think so. Its managing director, John Lipsky thinks that, "It's unlikely it would make a substantial change in the ...

Bank blocks pension gold

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... "To protect against the euro uncertainty SPVG has chosen to invest in gold. This is the same argument of central banks and IMF to hold large gold positions," SPVG said in a statement. In 2009 SPVG sold off its 17 per cent investment in equities in favour ...

Trouble not terribly troubling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2011
... silenced because recent indicators are showing that the global recovery is picking up speed. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently lifted its outlook for world economic growth to 4.4 per cent this year and 4.5 per cent in 2012. Ahh, but with ...

I heart the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
... of trade... look like they will peak higher and later than we had previously assumed." The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) has recently lifted its outlook for world economic growth to 4.4 per cent this year and 4.5 per cent in 2012. And while he ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... by 40.3 per cent off strong revenue growth and cost reductions. Its shares were down one cent at $5.28. Litigation funder IMF is to fund shareholder claims against engineer Downer EDI for failing to disclose the difficulties with its NSW train manufacturing ...