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China puts another one in the bag

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... are mounting over the Middle Kingdom's slowing economy in recent months but even the IMF, in its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) -- released 6 October -- left its growth prediction for China's economy unchanged from July's 6.8% this year and 6.3% ...

IMF predicts drop in foreign earnings

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... foreign earnings and a drag on growth this year according to the International Monetary Fund's most recent World Economic Outlook. The IMF said the downturn in the global commodity cycle is continuing to hit Australia's economy and exacerbating a long-anticipated ...

Floating in money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... lifts all boats? Nah, Virginia, it's no longer "a rising tide" - not if you believe the IMF's latest annual World Economic Outlook (WEO) report published this month where it printed, "Output across advanced and emerging market economies remains much ...

China growth as Li likes it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2015
... a century and it missed the Politburo's 7.5% target. You want more? Here's more. The just-released IMF "World Economic Outlook" shows China growing with a 6 in front of it this year and the next - 6.8% in 2015 and 6.3% in 2016. My oh my oh my and boy ...

Wall Street snubs the IMF

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... will read when one clicks on the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) website where it published its July "World Economic Outlook Update". Yet Wall Street appeared to have missed it - the S&P 500 index even closed at another record high last night - especially ...

Victim of success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... Monetary Fund (IMF) to upgrade 2013 and 2014 growth forecasts for the nation in the October update of its World Economic Outlook Report to 1.4% in 2013 (up 0.5% from July) and 1.9% next year (up 0.4%). A victim of its own success. The bad news is that ...

Bears out a-haunting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... time to join the chorus, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) issued its own warning. In its bi-annual World Economic Outlook (WEO) released overnight, the IMF warned that, "Reassessment of US sovereign risk could reduce global output by several percentage ...

IMF - It Means Fun

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... you read or heard, the IMF's message is clear: "be afraid, be very afraid" when it released its latest World Economic Outlook where it lowered its 2012 and 2013 growth projections for the world economy. You cry "woe", I say "yay!". This is because my ...

Bad news? Where?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... dearest contra indicators - the IMF - has done it again! Only three days ago, the IMF released its latest World Economic Outlook report, where it slashed next year's global growth forecast down to 3.9% (from April's 4.1%) because "downside risks to this ...

IMF issues buy order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... end of 2009 and by another 12.8% the following year. Fast forward to 20 September 2011. The just-released World Economic Outlook (WEO) warned that, "The global economy is in a dangerous new phase. Global activity has weakened and become more uneven ...