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Insto clients forecast a low growth world economy

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
Pessimism about the outlook for global growth has significantly worsened since March, according to a survey of institutional clients by global investment management firm PIMCO. PIMCO surveyed clients before its recent Macroeconomic Forum and asked respondents ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 OCT 2011
... concerns that the high-level talks will fail to produce a deal to end a crisis that has threatened to plunge the world economy into recession. Worried by surging inflation, China has ushered in several policies over the past year to tighten credit, including ...

Asia growth to transform business

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... anniversary Gala Dinner, said, "By 2020 BRIC countries will be 50% of world GDP so they will be front and centre of the world economy. The decade between now and then will be one of tremendous structural change." Dr Gupta said the transition will fundamentally ...

Market Report- Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2011
... Christine Lagarde, on Sunday said "good progress" had been made in talks on the debt crisis that has threatened the world economy. The eurozone wants to beef up its 440-billion-euro ($A592 billion) rescue fund, the European Financial Stability Facility ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2011
... of the revamped eurozone rescue fund and focused more on a European Central Bank warning of downside risks to the world economy. At close on Thursday, London's FTSE-100 was down 0.71 per cent to 5,403.38 points, Frankfurt's DAX 30 index lost 1.33 per ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... which jumped Friday amid hopes the G20 meeting would result in a plan to battle Europe's fiscal woes and prevent the world economy from slipping back into recession. The euro stood at $US1.3856 in Tokyo trade, down slightly from $1.3881 in New York late ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... European Central Bank's chief economist just as a G7 meeting in France opened seeking new ways to fend off gloom in the world economy. The tumble began after a weak opening on Wall Street, driven down by scepticism over a US jobs stimulus and doubts ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... resembled that of the panic that followed the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers in 2008 and threw the world economy into recession. Italy's UniCredit fell 7.30 per cent to 0.832 euros and Intesa Sanpaolo dropped 6.96 per cent to 1.029 euros. ...

IMF just as baffled as we are

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
Global pressure to contain debt is ironically one of the biggest threats to the world economy, warns the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde. Writing in the Financial Times, Lagarde said world economic confidence ...

Ideas count and Australia is up to 69,000

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... sixth with 36,000 patents over the decade for a 0.6% market share is reasonable, but compared to our 2% share of the world economy it's nonetheless a bit under-done. This relative performance illustrates why national complaints over our high dollar or ...