Tag: World Economy

• Wednesday, October 9th 2019 - 09:55 UTC

  New IMF chief claims the world economy is in a “synchronized slowdown”

  

  Grinding trade disputes are undermining the global economy, which is set to see its slowest growth in nearly a decade, the new IMF chief said on Tuesday. Research shows the impact of the trade conflict is widespread and countries must be ready to respond in unison with cash infusions, Kristalina Georgieva said in her first speech as managing director of the International Monetary Fund.

• Wednesday, January 9th 2019 - 08:40 UTC

  World Bank says global economy is “soft landing”, so far “orderly”

  

  The World Bank is warning of increasing risks, or what it calls “darkening skies”, for the world economy. In its annual assessment of global prospects the Bank predicts continued, though somewhat slower, growth this year and next.

• Tuesday, March 27th 2018 - 09:42 UTC

  The World's Biggest Investors Have Lost $436 Billion In 2018

  

  Wall Street is shocked, but it shouldn't be: Tariffs targeting China should have been a given, and now the market's tanking on trade war fears as if it just crept up on everyone, but Trump's been very clear on this.

• Monday, March 19th 2018 - 09:28 UTC

  Germany and Argentina champions of international free trade at G20 meeting

  

  Germany and Argentina want to uphold a pledge to keep international trade free at a summit of the world’s 20 largest economies in Buenos Aires this week, the countries’ finance ministers said on Sunday.