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Indonesia woos infra investment

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012
Indonesia is currently hosting a world-first Global Airports conference to bring together experts on airports and development in infrastructure as part of a broader plan to ensure the country's economic growth is properly supported. The World Bank has ...

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 ...

Eyes turn to monetary policy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... monetary policy and official interest rates, in Australia and elsewhere it's fair to say that monetary policy around the world is now fairly set on a concerted path of stimulatory policy - even in China where we're seeing an easing of monetary conditions," ...

Asia vital for Aus business: Harcourt

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... said Harcourt. Harcourt who is also the J.W Nevile economics fellow spoke as well of Europe's continued importance on the world stage, particularly Germany, which remains a strong industrial power. The debate around a push for increased productivity ...

German FM defends Euro

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... notion that the current crisis somehow signals the decline of Europe as a global force. He cited a recent World Economic Forum report that listed seven European countries in their Top 10 list of the world's most competitive economies. "Europe is a strong ...

Nice one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
As with most stock markets the world over, the Australian equity market has gotten off to a good start in the New Year despite gloomy expectations surrounding the global outlook and indications of weakening in the domestic economy. With only two trading ...

Extending the extended extension

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... maintaining confidence is crucial. The Fed's recent decision to extend the extension suggests that the biggest central bank in the world is on the case, that it's doing something - anything and everything - to ensure that the current global malady is ...

Forecasts shmorecasts

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012
... saving any one country or region. It is about saving the world from a downward economic spiral." In its latest World Economic Outlook report, the IMF lowered its global growth projection to 3.3% this year (down from 4% forecast last September) and 3.9% ...

Not so wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... Investors greeted 2012 with almost universal agreement that the global growth outlook would be worse than it was in 2011 - the World Bank recently reminded us of this - and that the euro area could be just one event away from disintegration and that ...

Wolf, wolf

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... boy, oh boy, oh boy. Have you seen this morning's headline on theage.com.au? "'Ugliest' of times ahead." It's all about the World Bank's latest Global Economic Prospects report that, "signalled a downturn so severe it would eclipse the chaos that followed ...