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Forecasting foibles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2009
... start of the year, quickly followed by the Asian Development Bank (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 ...

Spring springs on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... crunched. They did not see reports that China recorded is now in deflation for the first time in six years. They did not hear the IMF's warning that it now 'expects global growth to slow below zero this year, the worst performance in most of our lifetimes' ...

Lift retirement age, lower long term benefits: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said countries should consider lifting their retirement ages, raising pension fund contribution rates and containing age-related expenditures such as health costs. The irony however is that countries with largely ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... 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 ...

Biggest Loser Part 2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... growth could fall by 3.3 per cent this year - more than the 2.8 per cent decline forecast by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) a little over a month ago. The German Institute for Economic Research (DIW) expects Germany's economy to decrease by more ...

The biggest loser

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... measures since records began in 1995. And we thought Britain was the basket case of Europe! The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) latest World Business Outlook report predicts the economies of the Eurozone as a whole to retreat by 2 per cent in 2009. ...

Darkest before dawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... contraction all over the planet, nationalization, de-facto nationalisation, the list goes on. The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) downward revision to global growth and the first estimate of US fourth quarter real GDP growth in the final week of ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... Clue: Its name also starts with the word United. In its latest World Economic Outlook report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted that global growth would slow to only 0.5 per cent in 2009 after advancing by an estimated 3.4 per cent last ...

Good Bank Bad Bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2009
... significant.' Indeed they are. At the same time the Fed announced its decision and its statement, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released its latest projections. The IMF slashed its global economic growth projection down to 0.5 per cent this year ...

Cognacs and chocolates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... significant downturn. The latest casualty is Ireland - rumoured overnight that it may ask the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for assistance if the economic outlook deteriorates further. The Irish government was quick to deny the rumours but where ...