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Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... that beggaring my neighbour would make me richer? Oh yeah, they reached an accord alright. They agreed to pin a star on the IMF's chest and anointed it the currency sheriff. And what's the new currency cop supposed to do? It will prepare a report to ...

Good for nothing war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... prolonged the Great Depression. This is not lost on the International Monetary Fund. In an interview with The Financial Times, IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned that, "There is clearly the idea beginning to circulate that currencies can be used ...

Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... would not be complete without the obligatory spoilsports. Cue in the International Monetary Fund. In a Bloomberg interview, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn warned that, "We're not safe yet." Because "The recovery is not enough, you need ...

Been there, done that

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... result of the high cost of bank bailouts and expectations of "severe" deterioration in the government's debt metrics. The IMF and the EU and the World Bank chopped Hungary off the block. They suspended talks with the Hungarian government. In other words ...

Paul does it again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010

New-found optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... Talking heads, printed and cyber-media point attribute last night's gains on Wall Street to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) lifting of its global growth forecast and the better-than-expected US initial unemployment claims. Been there, done that. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... had expected the latest weekly figure to be around 460,000. Sentiment was lifted also by an upgrade to global growth by the IMF despite renewed financial turbulence stemming from the European debt crisis. The fund projected the world economy will grow ...

Bored with half-empty glasses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... concern in China. China's Shanghai Composite Index rose 1.9 per cent yesterday despite Harvard University professor and former IMF chief economist Kenneth Rogoff's warning that China's property market is starting to collapse. No, thank you. Not when ...

Every recovery starts jobless

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... of around 10 per cent growth this year. It will have it -- give or take a few points. Even the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) think so -- all recently ...

EOFYS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... have been the most reliant on this programme. The expiry would exposed how ECB-funding dependent they are. Still, the new EU/IMF 750 billion euro bail out package is now at their disposal. Finally, we have an EOFY contribution from the American consumers. ...