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The News Tribune
| 11 months ago
05 am The International Monetary Fund will reduce its estimate for global growth this year on weakness in investment, jobs and manufacturing in Europe, the United States, Brazil, India and China, Managing Director Christine Lagarde said.
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The Jakarta Post
| 11 months ago
Indonesia's economic growth rate has been forecast to drop to 6.1 percent this year on weakening global conditions-lower than the government's 6.5 percent target but free and open trade regime and investment climate will be important to propel growth...
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The Independent
| 11 months ago
Suggested Topics Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, sounded the alarm bell over the state of the global economy yesterday, as the latest US job figures confirmed that even the world's largest economy is now...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
July 06, 2012 Stock prices retreated on Friday following another weak U.S. jobs report. U.S. companies added only 80,000 jobs last month, the third straight month of tepid job growth. Although the unemployment rate held steady at 8.2 percent, the...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 11 months ago
The dollar surged and the euro sank again Friday after US labour data for June showed the economy was not pumping out the jobs needed to bring down the high unemployment rate. The data told investors that the United States was as stuck in low-growth...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Hopes that emerging markets will lead the world out of the global economic slowdown are beginning to dim. Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), voiced her concerns over the strength of the global economy,...
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Japan Times
| 11 months ago
Staff writer The push by Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda and his administration to raise the consumption tax is a key step that "will make the Japanese economy more agile and efficient," Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 11 months ago
Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde said Friday that the IMF will cut its global growth forecasts in the next month, adding that a weaker global economy will bring more trouble for Japan in the form of a stronger yen. The world economic outlook will...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said Friday that the fund will cut its forecast for global economic growth in a quarterly assessment to be released later this month.
She did not say which nations or regions were contributing to...
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Reuters
| 11 months ago
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde (L) shakes hands with Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda during their talks at Noda's official residence in Tokyo July 6, 2012. The head of the International Monetary Fund...
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The Globe & Mail
| 11 months ago
Retail It is not an enormous variation, but it will be negative, she said...Lagarde pointed to near-simultaneous interest-rate cuts in China and Europe on Thursday, along with the Bank of England's boost to an asset-purchase program , as evidence of...
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Miami Herald
| 11 months ago
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde has praise for Japan's move to raise its sales tax to curb the swollen national debt. China's government said Friday it will "properly handle" a U.S. complaint to the World Trade Organization about its anti-...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 11 months ago
International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde on Friday warned the global economy was slowing and said the situation could get worse because Europe was not doing enough to fix its debt crisis. Lagarde said the IMF would cut its growth forecast...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 11 months ago
IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde has praise for Japan's move to raise its sales tax to curb the swollen national debt. She made the comments Friday in Tokyo where she is meeting with Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda , other ministers and business...
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Independent
| 11 months ago
Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde has warned that the global economic situation has become "more worrisome". Speaking in Japan ahead of talks with prime minister Yoshihiko Noda, the managing director of the IMF said a cooperative policy response...
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The Economic Times
| 11 months ago
The two main concerns for Japan's economy are a further appreciation of the yen and the risks posed by Europe's debt crisis to demand for Japanese exports, the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Friday. The yen is moderately overvalued...
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BBC
| 11 months ago
International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde has hailed EU leaders' efforts, but said more must be done to solve the eurozone crisis. Speaking in Tokyo, she said that "significant steps" had been taken, but that further reforms and...
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Independent
| 11 months ago
IMF Director Christine Lagarde calls on U.S. authorities to keep up efforts to help a modest economic recovery, while warning that delays in addressing looming fiscal challenges could slow growth later this year. Serious Fraud Office investigators...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
The European Central Bank is widely expected to cut borrowing costs to a record low on Thursday to support a deteriorating euro zone economy and complement measures agreed by government leaders last week to tackle the bloc's debt crisis. Economic...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
The U.S. economy could be pushed off a "cliff" if Washington lets Bush-era tax cuts expire and forced spending cuts begin, the International Monetary Fund said. If the tax increases and mandatory spending cuts -- worth as much as 4 percent of gross...
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The Local
| 11 months ago
Germany's economic performance throughout the crisis so far "has been remarkable, despite a difficult environment," the head of the IMF mission to Germany, Subir Lall, said during a telephone conference call. Germany expanded strongly for most of...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 11 months ago
But she is also criticising president Barack Obama's proposed budget for next year, suggesting the federal budget could be cut by less than planned. "We don't think it should be so frontloaded that it's going to act like a brake on the US economy,"...
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
Eyder Peralta Like the Federal Reserve before them, the International Monetary Fund lowered its growth projections for the U.S. economy. The Los Angles Times says that in its annual report, the IMF calls the U.S. recovery "tepid" and warns U.S.
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The Guardian
| 11 months ago
Jason Reed/Reuters The International Monetary Fund has warned that the US recovery is "tepid" and urged Washington's warring politicians to stave off drastic spending cuts and tax rises due in 2013 that could send the economy over a "fiscal cliff".
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Christian Science Monitor
| 11 months ago
US must avoid even the threat of it, IMF chief warns IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde discussed on Tuesday her institution's review of the US economy, which included a revised estimate for domestic growth this year of 2 percent.
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
VOA News July 03, 2012 The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, said the "tepid" U.S. economic recovery could be hurt by two problems: Europe's economic troubles and U.S. political gridlock. Lagarde said the first one is "...
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The New York Times
| 11 months ago
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday lowered its estimates for United States economic growth for this year and next, and urged policy makers to do more to help the housing sector and support the tepid recovery. In its annual assessment of the...
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Washington Post
| 11 months ago
Text Size The Washington Post The economic drag from Europe and the risks from domestic fiscal issues have left U.S. economic growth tepid and subject to elevated downside risks, the International Monetary Fund warned on Tuesday. In its annual review...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 11 months ago
Lagarde's warning that 'excessive' moves to cut the deficit could damage the US recovery sits awkwardly with the GOP's emphasis on spending cuts. Photo: Reuters The International Monetary Fund has advised the Obama administration not to tighten its...
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The Economic Times
| 11 months ago
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday pared its growth forecast for the US economy and warned that the Obama administration could be slicing the deficit too fast for the weak economy. It also said the economy was under threat from the pre-...
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The Economic Times
| 11 months ago
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday urged the United States to quickly remove the uncertainty over the path of fiscal policy , which is set to tighten abruptly at the start of next year absent congressional action. The U.S. economy is facing a...
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MarketWatch
| 11 months ago
U.S. lawmakers must remove uncertainty created by its fiscal cliff, the International Monetary Fund said in a report released Tuesday. The pace of deficit reduction in the short term should not sap the economic recovery that is expected to remain...
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Time of India
| 11 months ago
The IMF pared its growth forecast for the US economy this year, warning against a "fiscal cliff" at year-end and the Obama administration's proposed spending cuts. The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday pared its growth forecast for the US...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 11 months ago
An international lending organization says U.S. lawmakers must work quickly to avoid sharp tax increases and spending cuts that could throw the economy into recession next year. The International Monetary Fund also says in an annual report on the U.S.
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BBC
| 11 months ago
The US recovery "remains tepid", according to the annual report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It warned of risks from the eurozone debt crisis and the uncertainties surrounding domestic policies, with an election in November and the...
