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Chief economist update: Chinese dragon now a bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2018
... to date. Forget the 2018 China GDP growth forecasts that the mammoth international institutions - International Monetary Fund (6.6%); Asian Development Bank (6.6%); Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (6.7%) - or even the Chinese government's ...

Banking veteran retires

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2018
... ANZ, Hodges ran businesses in Australia and New Zealand. He's also worked as a stockbroker with the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC and Commonwealth Treasury in Canberra. ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott said Hodges has made a significant ...

Future Fund reshuffles investment team

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... Hong Kong with AIG Financial Products and Morgan Stanley. Prior to that, Gilmore worked with both the International Monetary Fund and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Among the investment team reshuffle, head of infrastructure and timberland Wendy Norris ...

Chief economist update: The risks just got real

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... and there's certain retaliation from trading partners. You can forget the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) rosy, glowing global growth forecasts too for the risks to their projections just became real. The World Bank's "Global ...

Oil's gift to central bankers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2017
... demand fundamentals are strengthening given the rising growth momentum in the global economy. The International Monetary Fund's (IMF) lifting of its world economic forecasts to 3.6% (from 3.5%) on 2017 and 3.7% (from 3.6%) in 2018 bear this out. This ...

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... Premier Li likes, and then some given there's only one more quarter to go. One that's not lost on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which lifted China's 2017 GDP growth projection to 6.8% in its October World Economic Outlook report - up from 6.6% ...

ECB exit: 2018 or 2021?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... 55.7 in August); manufacturing (58.1 from 57.4); services (55.8 from 54.7) - and more recently, the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) sharp upgrade to Eurozone GDP growth. In its October 2017 World Economic Outlook (WEO) report, the IMF lifted its ...

APRA names heavyweight panel to investigate CBA

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
... of APRA over an 11-year period from 1 July 2003 to 30 June 2014, and is an external expert for the International Monetary Fund. Samuel has held a number of roles in public life including former chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ...

Good goings-on in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
... improved conditions both the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have lifted their China economic growth projections in their June 2017 reports. The OECD raised its GDP growth forecast ...

Central Banks fail to disappoint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2017
... sync with that of the financial markets. This is underscored by Factset's recent report that even the International Monetary Fund (IMF) "endorses the ECB's cautious approach". Or is it because the financial markets are wagging the central banks? Can't ...