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IMF says prepare to buy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2011
... advanced economies to slow but not stop..." It didn't stop alright... the global economy contracted. Actual result -- world growth slipped by 0.6% in the year to the fourth quarter of 2008. And the S&P 500 dropped like a dead body at the end of 2008 ...

Fear is in the air

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... worrying over the future of global growth - because that future is bad. It's so bad that the World Bank downgraded its world growth forecast for this year by an astounding, off the edge of your seats, eye-watering 0.1 per cent to 3.2 per cent from the ...

It's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
... The same could be said of the OECD which released its latest forecast last week. In its latest outlook it predicted world growth to ease from 4.9 per cent in 2010 to 4.2 percent this year and 4.6 per cent in 2012. Now is this good or bad? Bad -- because ...

Better than a Thanksgiving turkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... its neck. China is tightening policy and Chinese banks could no longer lend - there goes Chinese growth, there goes world growth. As if speculation that world growth would go away if (others say when) Chinese growth slows was not enough, the Fed was ...

New-found optimism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
... and Cooperation (OECD) also upgraded its growth forecasts not even a full two months before - it raised its 2010 world growth outlook to 4.6 per cent in the last week of May from 3.4 per cent previously. What happened then? Wall Street et al continued ...

L-U-V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... whole in the shape of a V. This is almost similar to the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) revised forecast for world growth released last month. The extent of the economic contraction in the world was such that it becomes a case of simple maths for ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... wiped off the Australian share market in the biggest one-day sell-off in almost six weeks amid a worse than expected world growth outlook. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index plunged 3.1 per cent, or 121.3 points, to 3796.9 on Tuesday, while the broader All ...

Forecasting foibles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... (ADB). Not to be outdone, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) quickly added a negative sign to its 0.5 per cent world growth prediction for 2009 just a month ago and divined that growth in developed nations of the world would fall by 3 per cent this ...

Reverse core satellite approach: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... characterised by "sub par [investment] returns", which means investors should consider a core active approach. "When world growth was going strongly all boats rose with the tide and sector volatility was low, active manager performance as shown by the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... cent, to 2,169.34. LONDON - UK stocks shed more than one per cent on fears a US recession would significantly slow world growth. The FTSE 100 dropped 70.8 points to 5,629.1. FRANKFURT - The DAX index fell 65.91 points to 6448.08. PARIS - The CAC-40 index ...