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G-20 pits U.S. growth against EU recession amid volatility worry

By Rebecca Christie and Scott Rose, Bloomberg

July 19, 2013 • Reprints

Global finance chiefs wrestled with competing priorities for the global economy in Moscow today as U.S. growth and its impact on markets took center stage against a backdrop of a European recession.

Europe needs to do more to jumpstart its economy, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said as his European Union counterparts prepared to defend their job-boosting efforts. Developing nations at the meeting of Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers hailed the U.S. upturn, while warning that the Federal Reserve should be careful to avoid spooking markets if it ends its bond-buying program.

Speculation about developed economies scaling back their unprecedented monetary easing has roiled emerging-market currencies and bonds since G-20 finance chiefs last met in April. That prompted policy makers including Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke to refine their message.

“I think the crucial challenge is how the financial markets manage these signals and how they manage them in a way in which emerging markets and their currencies are not negatively affected,” South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said in an interview with Bloomberg Television.

Bernanke has now “done enough” to convey that U.S. policy won’t change overnight, giving the rest of the world time to adjust, Gordhan said. The dollar weakened 0.3% to 100.27 yen at 3:22 p.m. in Moscow, as investors pared back expectations of how quickly the Fed would begin to scale back asset purchases.

‘Shared Opinion’

G-20 finance chiefs have a “shared opinion” that the global economy needs a common strategy for how to manage quantitative easing efforts, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told reporters in Moscow today. He said growth rates in emerging economies are weakening, showing that those countries may not be able to propel the world economy forward on their own.

“Emerging markets in central and eastern Europe and elsewhere are right to be concerned given the narrative coming out of Frankfurt, the U.S. and Japan,” said Mujtaba Rahman, director at the Eurasia Group in New York. “Their performance has not been driven by fundamentals, and forthcoming changes to monetary policy are going to make emerging markets look particularly vulnerable.”

Global finance chiefs are counting on the U.S. to carry the recovery as they look for ways to improve prospects in their home economies. Bernanke is “very conscious of the global responsibility of the U.S.,” French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici told Bloomberg Television today.

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