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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... per cent, at 20,535.94. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand sharemarket gained strongly amid optimism about the global economic outlook even as companies continued to call on investors for new capital. Tower shares fell after announcing plans to raise $81 million ...

Meredith Whitney

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... US Treasury Timmy Geithner and Ben Bernanke. And what happened when the OECD and the IMF raised their global economic outlook? Ignored. For four straight weeks Wall Street - and consequently the rest of the world - went in reverse. Obama et al failed ...

Rescue package YES, economy NO

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
... goods fell by 4.8 per cent during the month. Durable goods ex-transportation slid by 3.3 per cent. In its Global Economic Outlook, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that is a substantial likelihood of a severe US economic downturn in the United ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... on Thursday in the wake of heavy falls in Asia, pulled down by sharp losses for banking stocks as the global economic outlook seemingly turned darker. Fears near to home that the European economy is at risk of recession dampened sentiment, and saw the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
... Institute of Australasia. American Express chief financial officer research services release the first annual Global Economic Outlook and Spending survey. Yesterday, the Australian share market had its biggest one-day fall in almost three months, ending ...

Oil sours economic rally

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... ahead of the next Opec meeting in Vienna amid mounting worries that record oil prices are worsening the global economic outlook. Having reached a high of $100.09 a barrel three weeks ago, crude oil prices bounced back to $87.50 a barrel on Wednesday ...

PE boom poses risks: IMF

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2007
Growth in private equity and leveraged buyouts (LBOs) pose risks to an otherwise positive global economic outlook, according to the International Monetary Fund's half-yearly Global Financial Stability Report. According to the IMF, strong corporate performance ...

Argo announces record profits for 2003/04

Australian listed investment company Argo Investments, announced today a 16.7% improvement on underlying profits for the 2003/2004 financial year and a record $78.6 million after tax profit. The company, with total assets of $2.2 billion and investments ...

All eyes this week on RBA governor speech: economists

... chief economist John Edwards said. "(However) Mr Macfarlane cannot but be reasonably positive about the global economic outlook and Australia's role in it, a sentiment which might get markets re-evaluating the chance of a rate rise." Dr Edwards said ...

Morning Market Wrap: New six-year high for dollar

... strategy, Greg McKenna, said the dollar was bid because of the interest rate differential and an improving global economic outlook. "People are going to attribute it to the Reserve Bank," he said. "Of all the influences on the Aussie, the interest rate ...