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Downgrades, sovereign interest rates, contagion, defaults, and loan guarantees. These terms swirl around Europe each time the debt of a nation is cut by a rating agency as Greece’s was by...
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IMF researchers believe that high food prices are a problem which will linger, at least in the foreseeable future. Bad weather is part of the reason. The growth in bio-fuels in another.The IMF report...
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The IMF’s World Economic Outlook Update says that the rate of the recovery from the worldwide recession has accelerated though nearly all the comments in the document are qualified. Agencies such...
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A argument has arisen about whether the facility put together last spring to help finance Greece and to cover future bailouts of eurozone nations if they need it is large enough. The package put...
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Updated throughout the day.Ireland’s banks will get loans from the IMF and EU. (Reuters)Glencore may have an IPO next years (Reuters)Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) has sold a large number of its...
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EU officials tried to reassure capital markets about Ireland’s viability. (Reuters)Yahoo ! (NASDAQ: YHOO) said a report it would lay of 20% of staff was “misleading.” (Reuters)Newsweek and The...
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The US has tried to hold together discussions on currency and trade among unruly members of the G20 conference in Seoul. (Reuters)Cisco’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) grim outlook stunned investors. (Reuters)The...
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Reuters: American International Group (NYSE: AIG) CEO Benmosche has cancer. (Reuters)Ford Motor (NYSE: Â F) may post record profits. (Reuters)William Dudley of the New York Fed said the central bank...
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The IMF was dismissed as the possible arbitrator in the growing currency dispute among the biggest countries. The US immediately said it would push China harder to boost what many see as the yuan’s...
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The International Monetary Fund is out taking the wind out of the sails of growth. Not just in the United States. Elsewhere too. The good news is that this is still a move farther and farther...
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The IMF (International Monetary Fund) says that trouble with the sovereign debt markets and a collapsed real estate market in America have undermined the global financial recovery. Based on its...
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Among the profound conclusions in the IMF’s new “World Economic Outlook” is that “initially fiscal retrenchment typically has contractionary short-term effects on economic activity, with...
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Reuters:  China said legislation aimed at a devaluation of the yuan violated WTO regulations.Reuters: IPOs do poorly in the People’s Republic now but can raise money from overseas...
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Nearly all the International Monetary Fund (IMF) assessments of large, developed economies read the same now. The agency calls them “Statements of Mission.” They are released once the IMF staff...
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Many investors in sovereign debt and euro zone nations which put up hundreds of billions of dollars are anxious to see if Greek moves toward default on its national paper. A number of investment...
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