Tag: Christine Lagarde

• Tuesday, October 14th 2014 - 16:43 UTC

  IMF urges economic reforms or face brittle growth, high debt and unemployment

  

  The world's policymakers must take economic reforms more seriously, or they could see their economies stuck in a muddle of mediocre growth with high debt and unemployment, the head of the International Monetary Fund said at the multilateral organization assembly.

• Thursday, September 11th 2014 - 15:46 UTC

  Ana Botin appointed new chairwoman of Spanish banking giant Santander

  

  Ana Botin has been appointed the new chairwoman of the Spanish banking giant Santander, following the death of her father, Emilio Botin, who died of a heart attack on Tuesday night.

• Monday, September 1st 2014 - 15:47 UTC

  IMF supports Lagarde despite investigation for negligence in France

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed confidence in its leader Christine Lagarde, despite her being investigated for negligence in France. Ms Lagarde, 58, has been questioned about her role in awarding compensation to businessman Bernard Tapie in 2008, when she was Minister of Finance.

• Wednesday, July 30th 2014 - 07:23 UTC

  IMF warning on interest rates and Russian crisis for some EU banks

  

  Sharply higher interest rates around the world could combine with weaker growth in emerging markets to slice as much as two percentage points off global growth in the next five years, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday.

• Monday, July 7th 2014 - 07:10 UTC

  Lagarde cautious about growth momentum; infrastructure investment needed

  

  Global economic activity should strengthen in the second half of the year and accelerate in 2015, although momentum could be weaker than expected, IMF chief Christine Lagarde said, hinting at a slight cut in the Fund's growth forecasts.

• Saturday, June 7th 2014 - 04:48 UTC

  IMF welcomes Argentina's implementation of actions on CPI and GDP indexes

  

  The International Monetary Fund (FMI) welcomed on Friday “all the specified actions,” taken by Argentine President Cristina Fernández administration, to improve Consumer prices and Gross Domestic Product indexes under INDEC National Statistics Bureau orbit.

• Saturday, June 7th 2014 - 04:37 UTC

  IMF warns UK about a possible 'housing bubble' and low productivity

  

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned the government that accelerating house prices and low productivity pose the greatest threat to the UK's economic recovery. Rising property values could leave households more vulnerable to income and interest rate shocks.

• Saturday, May 31st 2014 - 06:42 UTC

  IMF and Argentina/Paris Club deal: “we hope they continue that process”

  

  IMF managing director Christine Lagarde touring east Africa, on Friday cautiously welcomed steps taken by Argentina to settle a decade-old falling out with creditors, following a 9.7bn dollars five year repayment deal reached this week.

• Thursday, May 29th 2014 - 00:35 UTC

  Three Latam presidents among Forbes list of 25 most powerful women

  

  Brazil, Argentina and Chile presidents figure among the list of the 25 most powerful women in the world according to the latest release from Forbes. Dilma Rousseff ranks in fourth place, Cristina Fernandez 19 and Michele Bachelet, 25. Only nine heads of state figure in the 100 names list.

• Tuesday, May 27th 2014 - 09:33 UTC

  IMF Lagarde calls on central banks to cooperate on policy moves

  

  As the United States Federal Reserve debates the timing of its first interest rate hike since 2006, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine Lagarde is urging central banks to cooperate on policy moves.