Tag: FMI

• Saturday, May 26th 2018 - 08:32 UTC

  Thousands march in Buenos Aires to protest Argentina's IMF credit bid

  

  Thousands of Argentines on Friday protested the government’s bid to secure a credit line from the International Monetary Fund, which they blame for hardship during a past financial crisis. Opposition parties, unions, human rights organizations and artists took part in the march near the capital Buenos Aires’ emblematic obelisk, under the banner “the country is in danger.”

• Tuesday, April 24th 2018 - 07:22 UTC

  IMF forecasts Argentina will grow 2% this year because of the drought and fiscal shortcomings

  

  The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) World Economic Outlook update for April 2018 has reduced its expectations of growth for Argentina this year, and its projected annual inflation rate largely exceeds the 15% goal set by president Mauricio the Macri administration in December 2017.

• Tuesday, January 17th 2017 - 10:06 UTC

  IMF downgrades Latin America prospects because of lesser growth in Brazil and Mexico

  

  The International Monetary Fund has become more pessimistic about Latin America in the January economic outlook update. IMF is now forecasting regional GDP growth of just 1.2% in 2017, down from the 1.6% projection it made in October. It also lowered its 2018 estimate for Latin America by 0.1% to a revised projection of 2.1% expansion.

• Thursday, October 6th 2016 - 12:06 UTC

  IMF forecasts Latam and Caribbean economy will contract 0.6% this year and expand 1.6% in 2017

  

  International Monetary Fund said that the economy of Latin America and the Caribbean will shrink 0.6% this year, compared with its earlier projection of a 0.5% contraction. The prediction is part of the latest edition of the IMF's World Economic Outlook, which points out that while major regional economies such as Brazil and Venezuela are suffering, most other countries in the area continue to expand.

• Thursday, December 31st 2015 - 07:43 UTC

  Global economic growth in 2016, “disappointing and patchy” forecasts Lagarde

  

  Global economic growth will be “disappointing and patchy” in 2016, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, wrote in an article published in the German business daily Handelsblatt on Wednesday.

• Monday, June 29th 2015 - 06:20 UTC

  Greek banks closed and Tsipras takes the dispute with ECB and IMF to the brink

  

  Greek banks are to remain closed and capital controls will be imposed, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced. Speaking after the European Central Bank (ECB) said it was not increasing emergency funding to Greek banks, Tsipras underlined Greek deposits were safe.

• Thursday, June 4th 2015 - 08:45 UTC

  IMF gives Argentina more time to remedy quality of official CPI and GDP data

  

  The International Monetary Fund extended the period given to Argentina to remedy its local statistical measurement tools, while recognizing the country has made advancements in the matter. The IMF directive board met on Wednesday in Washington to assess Argentina's statistical indexes.

• Wednesday, September 19th 2012 - 05:51 UTC

  IMF calls on Argentina to implement measures on the quality of official data

  

  The International Monetary Fund announced on Tuesday that it “regretted the lack of sufficient progress” with Argentina to address the quality of the official data reported by the country and urged it to come up with a response to the organization’s concerns by December 17th.

• Monday, July 16th 2012 - 23:59 UTC

  IMF cuts world growth forecast; Latam drops from 3.7% to 3.4%

  

  International Monetary Fund on Monday cut its global growth forecast and warned that the outlook could dim further if policymakers in Europe do not act with enough force and speed to quell their region's debt crisis.

• Friday, June 15th 2012 - 19:16 UTC

  Euro-zone financial turmoil will have significant impact on global economy, says Fitch

  

  Fitch Ratings says a new round of adverse shocks centred on the Euro zone is slowing the fragile global economic recovery. In its latest quarterly Global Economic Outlook (GEO), Fitch forecasts real GDP growth of major advanced economies (MAE) to remain weak at 1.1% in 2012, before only a modest rebound to 1.7% in 2013 and 2.2% in 2014.