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UK, Japan slip into technical recession

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2024
... with the economy's capacity. We project 1% growth in 2024. This is up slightly from our most recent World Economic Outlook update. Thanks to stronger government spending. And achieving sustained 2%, inflation looks increasingly likely." The IMF predicts ...

Global economic growth hits 20-year low: IMF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2023
... Fund (IMF) has reported a significant decrease in global economic growth, reaching a 20-year low. The IMF World Economic Outlook 2023 report said there were tentative signs in early 2023 that the world economy could achieve a soft landing - with inflation ...

Chief economist update: Bank of Canada walks the talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021
... revision of more than 1 percentage point from the December OECD Economic Outlook" - and the IMF's 'World Economic Outlook Update, January 2021' - "Policy Support and Vaccines Expected to Lift Activity". Waxing positive they may (nearly) all ...

Chief economist update: Copper 10,000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... pandemic restrictions, vaccine roll-outs and continued fiscal and monetary policy support. In its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) released in April, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted world GDP to expand from -- 3.3% last year to 6.0% ...

Chief economist update: Europa rides the bull once again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
Just like the myth of Europa, Eurozone equities are riding on the back of a bull. Eurozone equities soared to their highest levels in 13 years. The VStoxx index - the Eurozone's fear gauge dropped to 13-month lows. Lucky 13. The Euro Stoxx-50 index ...

Chief economist update: Fourth wave threatens Olympics, growth outlook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021
The way it's (not) going for Japan, recent upgrades to its 2021 economic growth made by the OECD and the International Monetary Fund might need to be toned down or even reversed to a downgrade at their next outing. The OECD's March 2021 "Interim ...

Chief economist update: RBA promises support over the next three years

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2021
... and upgrades to the domestic economy's growth outlook by international agencies. The IMF's 'World Economic Outlook April 2021' report (released overnight) upgraded Australia's GDP growth to 4.5% this year from 3.5% forecast in January ...

Chief economist update: Prepare for lift off

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2021
In its latest World Economic Outlook (WEO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted a shallower contraction in world output for the year ended 2020 - minus 3.5%, down from the October forecast of a 4.4% contraction and the 4.9% decline it ...

Chief economist update: The virus, the vaccine, the variant

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2021
... the city shut on January 23 last year. So much so, that the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) first World Economic Outlook (WEO) report (released on 20 January 2020) predicted that, "Global growth is projected to rise from an estimated 2.9% in ...

Chief economist update: Middle Kingdom on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... the exception of China will have suffered recession in 2020" and backed by the IMF's October 2020 "World Economic Outlook" predicting Chinese GDP growth of 1.9% this year and 8.2% in 2021. The sequential improvement in China's activity stats ...
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