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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
... followed a successful Spanish bond auction and was fuelled by hopes that the US Federal Reserve would move to boost the world economy during two days of meetings that began on Tuesday. At Tuesday's close, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index finished the ...

Aus investors over-reacting on Euro fears

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... currency union, the market reverts back to the Lehman failure and the seizing-up of the financial plumbing of the world economy," said Kate Howitt, Fidelity Worldwide Investment Australian equities portfolio manager. "I think we are seeing a bit of that ...

Governance Australia's best export to Asia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... role. This is also an area in which Australia can be helpful, given the country's status and track record in the world economy," he added. Australia will be of immense value to Asia if the country's strength and experience can be deployed in ways to ...

In it to win it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
... in its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) report. Nonetheless, the latest WEO provided a positive picture of the world economy overall. The IMF upgraded its growth forecasts for this year and the next. It raised its global growth outlook to 3.5% this ...

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 ...