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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
... a successful Spanish bond auction eased concerns over the eurozone debt crisis and an upbeat IMF outlook on the world economy. At the close, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies was up 1.78 per cent at 5766.95 points. In Frankfurt, the ...

Recycled scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... Cooperation and Development (OECD) all said so late last year or early this year. And China? Yes, we know. And the world economy? Yes, check. And how do we know, we know? Because of what RBA Governor Glenn Stevens said only yesterday - the day his Board ...

Australian economic fundamentals solid: Swan

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... has moved to reassure Australians in the wake of the International Monetary Fund's latest gloomy outlook for the world economy. In its latest World Economic Outlook update released today, the IMF downgraded global growth forecasts for this year from ...

Forecasts shmorecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... is good news compared with what the World Bank (WB) saw in its crystal ball only a few days back. The WB sees the world economy expanding by only 2.5% this year and by 3.1% the next and warned of "a downturn so severe it would eclipse the chaos that ...

BofA: Fund managers appetite for risk growing

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
Only 3% of global fund managers believe the world economy will be worse off after 2012, according to a BofA Merrill Lynch fund manager survey, although geopolitical risks still rate highly as a concern. In the BofA Merrill Lynch survey of fund managers ...

Fund managers rate Aust equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... said Van Munster. "We also hold some relatively inexpensive defensives to counter-balance the portfolio in case the world economy's structural woes deteriorate further. Conlon believes forward-looking returns are going to be far more stock specific than ...

Priced in

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... there was a non-trivial possibility of a very sharp contraction." "Overall, members concluded that growth in the world economy was likely to weaken over the coming year." And might I add, some have even factored in the disintegration of the euro. But ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... gained about half a per cent, breaking a three-day losing streak, as positive data from the US spurred hopes that the world economy may have some life yet. The number of US jobless claims fell to the lowest level in three years, data released overnight ...

2011: hits and misses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... earthquake and the floods and cyclones in Australia. I was wrong! These events prevented continued expansion in the world economy. So much so, that by the middle of 2011, speculation started to gather of a looming double-dip in America. And of course ...

OECD: Economy to grow by 4% next year

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... OECD also delivered an ominous warning to Europe, warning that the sovereign debt crisis was a major threat to the world economy. "Prospects only improve if decisive action is taken quickly," said Padoan. "In the euro area, the risk of contagion needs ...