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Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... economy follows the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) forecast of a 1 per cent contraction or the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) projection of a 1.3 per cent fall. In the fiscal year to June 1991, Australian real GDP declined by 1.6 per cent. The ...

Rothfield heads ML economics

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... 1979 at the Australian Treasury working on balance of payments, monetary and budget policy issues, including a stint at the IMF in 1983 and a year as senior executive assistant to the Australian Treasury Secretary. Rothfield earned a graduate degree ...

Finance job market to recover by 2010

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... Fund predicted Australia's job market to contract and unemployment figures to rise to 8 per cent next year. Following the IMF's gloomy forecasts for the global economy, Treasury Wayne Swan last week did not rule out the possibility of Australian unemployment ...

Too much ado about pig flu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... respiratory syndrome) of the early 2000s stopped after 800 deaths. Reuters too. It pointed to a 2008 study conducted by the IMF that predicted that an influenza pandemic could cost US$3 trillion and a 5 per cent fall in world output. But this one I found ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
... strong performance from the market, amid gloomy predictions for the US economy released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). "It has been a very strong performance despite the doomsday odds acting against us overnight with the IMF report and a bit ...

Danger, Will Robinson!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
Danger, Will Robinson! Danger, Danger! No. I am not talking about the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) new World Economic Outlook report detailing how its forecasters changed their mind (again!) and now think that global growth would contract by ...

Out with the new old

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2009
Headline: IMF warns worst to come, toxic debt to reach US$4,100,000,000,000. Yeah...yeah. Sure...sure. I am so scared. Wall Street ignored the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Global Financial Stability Report (GFSR). This is because while delivered ...

Taking a breather

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... decreasing over the month. The March fall was worse than market expectations for a 0.2 per cent drop. The old but still bad news. IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn told a German newspaper that its World Economic Outlook would show a downward ...

IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
What are they up to? What do they hope to accomplish? I am talking, of course, about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and our very own Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan. What do they have in common? Both still have not learned their lessons. Both want ...

GFC Problem solved

... the capitalism game - there is more to this than meets the eye. The G20 resolved to boost the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) resources by US$500 billion, gave the World Bank (WB) US$100 billion plus US$250 billion for trade financing. If anyone ...