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Chief economist update: BOE going the wrong way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... countries that trades with America). Trump might get what he wants from the Fed too. For as IMF managing director Christine Lagarde recently warned: "US-China tariffs-including those implemented last year-could reduce global GDP by 0.5 percent in 2020. ...

Chief economist update: Oil market slides from bull to bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... this year (from 2.9% it predicted in January) and 2.7% (from 2.8%) in 2020. Similarly, IMF managing director Christine Lagarde warned that, "US-China tariffs-including those implemented last year-could reduce global GDP by 0.5% in 2020 (see chart, bottom ...

Chief economist update: A prelude to a rate cut?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... battle and adds to the list of challenges the world faces. One that's voiced out by IMF managing director Christine Lagarde: "There is that concern about trade...rhetoric and tariffs... the "uncertainty over how this is going to be resolved, which ...

Janet vindicated

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... didn't, she would have been damned now if she did. "Perhaps Janet Yellen has heard us," as IMF managing director Christine Lagarde French journal 'Les Echos' just over a week after the Fed kept the status quo following their 16-17 September FOMC meeting. ...

Comparative advantage

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... that, over time, is eating away at growth in its economy. They better act soon for just as IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde told French journal 'Les Echos', "World GDP [growth] at 3.3% this year is not realistic anymore... A forecast of 3.8% for ...

Here we go again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... news my lady. Today it's all about weak growth. Bloomberg even had to bring back what IMF managing director Christine Lagarde told her audience in France last Sunday. According to Bloomberg, Mademoiselle Lagarde "signaled a cut in the institution's global ...

Market wrap - afternoon

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... in implementing Greece's bailout program would worsen the nation's financial shortfall. IMF managing director Christine Lagarde said the 11.5 billion euros ($A14.35 billion) in more spending cuts and revenue increases demanded by Greece's rescue lenders ...

QE hope - must be getting tough again?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... stagnation," warned Nissan Motor and Renault chief executive Carlos Ghosn. Perhaps so tough that IMF managing director Christine Lagarde has called on "policymakers need to take decisive steps to break free of the crisis." But she had been at this since ...

Dickens on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... interest to see economies go down the drain. Not even the bears. A fact highlighted by IMF managing director Christine Lagarde's weekend announcement that the IMF "has secured "commitments that are north of US$430 billion," doubling the Fund's lending ...
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