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Fund manager warns of 'Japanification' of Europe

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013
... will see a rapid fall to 80 cents to the US dollar, linked primarily to a slowdown in China, where he expects a "growth recession" to bring growth down to 5-6% per annum.

QE according to Yellen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013
... told us that: "We have made good progress, but we have farther to go to regain the ground lost in the crisis and the recession. Unemployment is down from a peak of 10 percent, but at 7.3 percent in October, it is still too high, reflecting a labor market ...

Victim of success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 OCT 2013
... and November 2009 when the annual rate of consumer price increases slowed below 2.0% -- after the economy went into a recession-induced by the global financial crisis. Further strengthening in the UK's growth momentum could only lead to greater upward ...

Unthinkable

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
... that much would likely reduce GDP by more than 4.5%-in an economy that is barely managing 2% growth rates. That spells recession." "Most of the negative impact on GDP would cease once the impasse ended, though strong downward momentum is hard to arrest. ...

Investor interest shifts to European credit

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... reducing their structural deficit." "Economic growth is picking up and the region is probably putting itself out of recession," he added. While some investors are still reluctant to put their money into European sovereign debt, Baraton suggested that ...

Obama expected to pick Yellen as US Fed chair

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013
... San Francisco branch she didn't read any of the warning signs regarding the 2008 housing bubble although she warned of recession.

Gone fishin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2013

Central banks rule

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
... the consumption tax from 5% to 8% come April next year. The same move in 1997 that returned the Japanese economy to recession and deflation. But fear not. This time, the Abe government plans to avoid a repeat of history by simultaneously unveiling a ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 SEP 2013
... burgeoning recovery in Europe's biggest economy is on track even if it could prove sluggish. Spain has emerged from recession in the third quarter, with estimated economic growth of 0.1 to 0.2 per cent, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said in a newspaper ...

John Hewson calls for overhaul of superannuation system

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2013
... issues and challenges," he says. "If you take out the resources part of the economy then we're teetering on the brink of recession. It's going to take a lot of adjustment to avoid."