International Monetary Fund

The forecast is in line with estimates of the International Monetary Fund

Gopinath warns of divergence in the recovery of different economies, urges central banks to keep access to money easy

(Sept 27): Argentina won a promise of extra cash and faster delivery from the International Monetary Fund, which expanded a record bailout to help the country defend its currency and pull the economy out of recession.

WASHINGTON (July 11): The Trump administration pushed ahead with plans to impose tariffs on additional US$200 billion ($272 billion) in Chinese products by releasing a list of targets, marking a sharp escalation in a trade war between the world’s two la

NEW YORK/HONG KONG (Oct 16): People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan warned that Chinese companies have taken on too much debt, and argued for less financial leverage as well as fiscal reforms to constrain local government borrowing.

SINGAPORE (Sept 30): China’s renminbi will become a major international currency tomorrow, when it officially becomes the fifth currency to enter the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights basket, joining the US Dollar, euro, Japanese ye

BEIJING (Sept 7): Brushing off rising wages, a shrinking workforce and intensifying competition from lower cost nations from Vietnam to Mexico, China’s global export share climbed to 14.6 percent last year from 12.9 percent a year earlier. That’s the