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Commodities investors nervous about inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
... GDP growth at around 9 per cent is experiencing their worst inflation, at upwards of 13 per cent, in more than a decade. The IMF projecting inflation in China to exceed 7 per cent reinforces the concerns and indeed implies that surging Chindia is running ...

Food shortages put farmers in box seat

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
Farmers may at last be in the box seat with even the IMF now warning about a world food shortage, but rather than complaining about high food prices a better solution might be paying farmers reasonable prices for their produce. The world food shortage ...

Volatility hits 5-year high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
... one-third that are neutral and only 14 per cent that are upbeat. Unsurprisingly - in light of statements by the US Fed and IMF - VanMac said 50 per cent of managers continue to expect the USD to keep sliding. Only one-fifth expect it to recover anytime ...

Rents to jump 50 pct, inflation to hit 4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... Australian residential property is overvalued and primed for a price correction, according the International Monetary Fund (IMF), meanwhile housing supply is in such demand that rents are projected to jump 50 per cent. The rental price jump predicted ...

Let the sub-prime post-mortem begin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... investors seeing commodities as currencies in their own right too as the value of the US dollar falls, according to a March 20 IMF Analysis report. Meanwhile the disconnect between emerging and developed economies has analysts concerned that if emerging ...

Time to get radical: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... mess began unfolding, the big worry was whether it would spill over to the real economy. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) thinks this may now be happening and has taken the problem to a whole new level requiring serious intervention. Pushing the ...

Liechtenstein blocks AML

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... response to which the authorities and the financial sector firms have developed risk-based mitigating measures," noted the IMF report. Despite progress by authorities to curb Liechtenstein's money laundering risk, the IMF warns that there is still much ...

Councils take action on CDOs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
... the crisis could spark a government rethink on how councils should invest their funds. Hugh McLernon, executive director of IMF Australia told ABC's Inside Business this week that 35 to 40 councils have so far been affected by the massive devaluation ...

World growth to drop by one-fifth, but no US recession: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
... expected to drop by one-fifth in 2008 to 4.1 per cent down from 4.9 per cent, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). "There was a risk that the ongoing turmoil in financial markets would further reduce domestic demand in the advanced economies ...

Iraqi economic growth to hit 7 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... driven by oil price movements, economic reforms and surging foreign exchange reserves, said the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last week. The upbeat assessment is based on a meeting convened in Washington between the IMF and the Iraqi Minister of ...