The International Monetary Fund is forecasting that Japan's economy will grow 0.7 percent this year, up 0.2 percentage point from its earlier estimate due to stimulus measures to mitigate the impact of the Oct. 1 consumption tax hike. The Washington-based institution also said global growth ...
The world's most powerful policymakers are struggling to alleviate the pain of a slowing global economy with few levers left to pull and growing concern that one of them, negative interest rates, already is creating problems of its own. In an ideal world, elected officials ...
If it needs to ease monetary policy, the Bank of Japan will ‘certainly’ reduce short- to medium-term interest rates, Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda says.
IMF to examine climate risk to financial markets, official says
The International Monetary Fund is examining the impact of climate on the world's financial markets and whether it is priced into market valuations, the head of the global lender's markets division said Saturday. "We are doing work on the pricing of climate risks and to ...
Fallout from Trump's trade wars felt by economies around the world
The collateral damage of the United States' trade wars is being felt from the fjords of Iceland to the auto factories of Japan. Central bank governors and finance ministers traded grim tales of suffering economies at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank fall meetings ...
Weak trade delaying global recovery, says Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda
The timing of a global economic recovery is being delayed as weaker global trade weighs on manufacturing, Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has said. Recent developments over the U.S.-China trade conflict together with Brexit "have reduced uncertainty somewhat," Kuroda said to reporters in Washington ...
Global growth this year projected to hit lowest level in decade: IMF
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday forecast world economic growth of 3.0 percent in 2019, its lowest level in a decade, amid the prolonged U.S.-China trade war, while leaving its growth forecast for Japan unchanged at 0.9 percent. In its latest World Economic Outlook, the ...
Ability, not nationality, should be the most important factor in the selection process.
The biggest cloud hanging over the international economy is the prospect of a trade war between the United States and China, and a concomitant erosion of the commitment to free and open trade.
We're not even close to the next great recession
The IMF's latest numbers show a worrisome trajectory, but they aren't terrible.
IMF cuts global growth outlook to lowest since financial crisis
The International Monetary Fund cut its outlook for global growth to the lowest since the financial crisis amid a bleaker outlook in most major advanced economies and signs that higher tariffs are weighing on trade. The world economy will grow 3.3 percent this year, down ...
