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Australian billionaires double fortunes during pandemic: Oxfam

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022
... warned of the deadly nature of the world's growing extreme economic inequality, ahead of the World Economic Forum's Davos Agenda meetings. The report revealed that the wealth of Australia's 47 richest had doubled at a rate of $2376 per second ...

Climate crisis tops list of risks for 2020s

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... the top five threats in terms of severity. The report has been released a week ahead of the Forum's annual meeting in Davos next week, which will be attended by the world's business and governmental leaders.

Chief economist update: A US dollar story

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2018
... mind that it contracted what his Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declared a day before at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Mnuchin said he welcomed a weaker US dollar because it would benefit the country's external trade. Mnuchin's ...

Chief economist update: Red light on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... 2018-to-date decline to minus 3.2% -- on the back of US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's comments At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that, "Obviously a weaker dollar is good for us as it relates to trade and opportunities." Obviously! ...

CBA receives top sustainability endorsement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2017
... Sustainability Index also ranked CBA as the sixth most sustainable company in the world, as announced at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. CBA was measured against a comprehensive range of sustainable business factors including how the ...

Deflation is the Darth Vader of the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
... prices and other factors dissipate". This gave me an eerie sense of dA(C)jA vu. For it was around this time last year, in Davos, that ECB president Mario Draghi also poo-poohed the risk of deflation. This was Rueters' headline on 24 January 2014, "ECB's ...

Speakers confirmed for Family Office Forum

STAFF REPORTER  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... spell in the Prime Minister's office in Paris). He headed the Global Risk Network at the World Economic Forum and organised Davos. Hong Kong-based Hendale Advisors chief investment officer Henry Lee will also provide an overview of Asian Family office ...

CIE expands its education program to the retail market

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013

A bullish view could be dangerous after Davos

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... it's important not to forget some very reputable organisations are putting up some serious warning signs as we saw even in Davos this week, saying we are at a critical tipping point for financial markets. I think people need to keep their eyes open," ...

No pleasing Mr. Market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
... world down. But hear ye, hear ye to what People's Bank of China Deputy Governor Zhu Min told the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland. "We'll continue with current accommodative fiscal and monetary policy" in order to ensure that the 8 per cent ...
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