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Rules, rules, rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2010
... institutions are waiting to see how far their money would go towards greasing legislation their way, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is proposing a commandment of its own. "Thou shall pay tithe to a general fund." According to the Wall Street Journal ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
... of authorities to discuss a possible loan, moving the country a step closer to becoming the first eurozone nation to get an IMF bailout. There was also bad news from the latest US jobs data, which saw new claims for unemployment insurance benefits unexpectedly ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... to a record 7.5 per cent before falling back to 7.35 per cent, driving speculation that Athens would have to invoke an EU-IMF safety net accord agreed last month. Athens said it would not but the markets were sceptical, with Greek shares slumping more ...

Paradox of thrift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... speaking of credit, Greece created a stir again last night following reports that the Greek government plans not to tap the IMF for its rescue because despite the IMF's better loan terms - i.e., lower interest rates - than the Eurozone governments, the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2010
... problems, dealers said. Markets gave back some of their recent gains as Greek borrowing costs jumped higher still despite an EU-IMF backstop accord agreed last month. The Greek crisis drives major uncertainties about the future of the eurozone where ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... rise to more than twice the rate paid by Germany, Europe's powerhouse economy, disappointing those who hoped last week's EU-IMF contingency debt relief plan for Athens would take the pressure off. Positive US consumer confidence and house price data ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
... Bond prices were mixed. LONDON - European stock markets closed firmer on Monday, helped by last week's agreement on an EU-IMF accord to help Greece resolve its debt crisis and US consumer spending data. In London, the benchmark FTSE 100 index closed ...

Flip-flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
... wave of selling. Anxiety flared up again when the ECB President told France's Public Senat television viewers that, "If the IMF or any other authority exercises any responsibility instead of the euro group, instead of the governments, this would clearly ...

End game

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2010
... more than US$200 billion per annum in lost growth and around 1 million jobs. Bomb the renminbi now! The World Bank and the IMF are using a different tact. The World Bank "advices" that a stronger renminbi would help dampen inflation pressure by lowering ...

Happy birthday bull

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2010
... when it re-appeared over the weekend, it had to be sensational. It was determined to top the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by coming out with a prediction that the global economy would contract 'for the first time since World War II, with growth ...