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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
... choppy trade on Friday, with investors tested by a mixed US employment report after encouraging words from the heads of the IMF and European Central Bank. The gains were welcome after a four-day losing streak on concerns tentative signs of recovery could ...

Recession over! Sigh!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
"The recovery has started." This is the world according to IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard. Or read another way, the global recession is over. My immediate reaction on reading this was a deep sigh. No, not a sigh of relief. But a sigh of disappointment. ...

Christmas in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... course, was not the first to do a somersault. There was Access Economics. There was Professor Nouriel Roubini. There were the IMF and the OECD upgrading their growth outlook for the global economy. For how could they not? There was just no use swimming ...

Meredith Whitney

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... gift of the gab, was ignored. So were US Treasury Timmy Geithner and Ben Bernanke. And what happened when the OECD and the IMF raised their global economic outlook? Ignored. For four straight weeks Wall Street - and consequently the rest of the world ...

A lose-lose proposition

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... thousands of taxpayers' money spent to produce this statement? Haven't they heard of teleconferencing? The there is news that the IMF has upgraded its 2010 global growth forecast for the umpteenth time. The IMF now expects the globe to expand by 2.5 ...

Up yours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... first quarter real GDP to US Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke's testimony before the House Oversight Committee through to the IMF and the OECD raising their global growth outlook. Yes Virginia, seek and you will find. There will always be something to explain ...

Sellers beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... day, the WB only received an endorsement of its 'Vulnerability Framework' from the G20 - no fresh mints. Why? Because the IMF downgraded its global growth forecast sharply before the G-20 meeting. At the time, the IMF revised its 2009 prediction for ...

No protection in protectionism

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... course of action to take by any government especially given the strain on national budgets. But right here? Right now? Even the IMF warned against premature withdrawal. No one really believes that the Fed and other central banks would raise interest ...

IMF Australia targets Great Southern

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
IMF Australia has agreed to fund legal proceedings on behalf of Great Southern Cattle projects against companies and various directors within the agribusiness fund manager. The planned litigation will be a group action in the Supreme Court of Western ...

Spin-a-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... bps since the lows in late 2008; rising yields prevent quick reparation in the US housing market and extend the recession. IMF global growth forecast. Bulls: The Fund upgraded its 2010 global growth forecast to 2.4 per cent from the 1.9 per cent it predicted ...