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By Sandrine Rastello, Bloomberg |
June 14, 2013
The International Monetary Fund sees the Federal Reserve maintaining large monthly bond purchases until at least the end of this year and urged the central bank to carefully manage its exit plan to avoid disrupting financial markets.
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By Sandrine Rastello and Anabela Reis, Bloomberg |
June 12, 2013
The International Monetary Fund said it agreed to disburse 657.5 million euros to Portugal after reviewing implementation of conditions tied to the country’s loan program.
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By Phil Flynn |
April 17, 2013
Oil Prices look like they found support around $86.00 as I expected. After the massive sell-off because of the fears of a global slowdown and massive U.S. supply, oil could start rebounding on the more mundane seasonal and refinery factors.
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By Dominick Chirichella |
April 17, 2013
Is the worst of the risk asset selling over or was Tuesday’s trading activity just a bit of short covering rally in a broader downtrend that is just getting underway? The market sentiment tends to quickly react to changes in the status of the global economy.
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By Sandrine Rastello, Bloomberg |
April 16, 2013
The International Monetary Fund cut its global growth forecast and urged European policy makers to use “aggressive” monetary policy as a second year of contraction leaves the euro area’s recovery lagging behind the rest of the world.
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By Sandrine Rastello, Bloomberg |
April 10, 2013
The global economy won’t gain much traction this year as Europe and Japan fail to recover and lag behind other developed economies, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said.
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By Bloomberg News |
April 7, 2013
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said that while a “substantial portion” of the global economy appears better, risks persist.
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By Sandrine Rastello |
March 12, 2013
The IMF's No. 2 official urged policy makers to clean up banks and strengthen oversight of their financial systems.
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By Sandrine Rastello, Bloomberg |
January 23, 2013
The International Monetary Fund cut its global growth forecasts and now projects a second year of contraction in the euro region as progress in battling Europe’s debt crisis fails to produce an economic recovery.
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By Neal Armstrong and Allison Bennett, Bloomberg |
October 22, 2012
The $4 trillion-a-day foreign-exchange market is losing confidence in central banks’ abilities to boost a struggling world economy.