European Way: Armenian chairmanship in CE committee coincides with major integration effort
This week at the 123rd session of the Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers in Strasbourg, France, attended by delegations from 47 countries Armenia assumed its first-ever six-month rotating chairmanship of the...Read more...
IMF Says Bahrain’s Growing Debt May Be Unsustainable by 2018
Bahrain must urgently cut spending or risk unsustainable public debt as its fiscal deficit widens and oil prices decline, according to the International Monetary Fund. The smallest Gulf crude producer needs “gradual fiscal...Read more...
Niran Adedokun: Saving Nigeria’s Future From Today’s Leaders
I am sure that the Federal Government knows better than to get carried away by recent positive economic ratings from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. With the stability in the nation’s oil industry over the...Read more...
Loonie’s volatility brings long-term hope but short-term headaches for exporters
Fri, 05/17/2013 - 18:18 EDT - theglobeandmail.com A lower Canadian dollar may be welcome news for the country’s exporters, but waiting for the currency to find its new normal is unsettling Managing Volatility and Loving it The...Read more...
Gold Seen Crushed as Credit Suisse Forecasts $1,100 in Year
On 21st Feb’2013 -We had Written this : http://www.anirudhsethireport.com/gold-spot-major-support-1525-1510-big-decline-upto-1300-1224-1123-on-card-in-coming-months/ Gold, down 17 percent since January, is poised to lose 20...Read more...
Greek 2015-16 fiscal gap will be focus of troika talks, EU says
Greece’s fiscal outlook after 2014 remains “inherently uncertain” and will be the focus of negotiations between Greece and its euro-area and International Monetary Fund creditors later this year, the European Commission said....Read more...
PRESS DIGEST – British Business – May 17 – Reuters
Thu May 16, 2013 7:41pm EDT May 17 (Reuters) – The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. The Telegraph EX-BP...Read more...
Jan Aart Scholte
Professor of Politics and International Studies Jan Aart Scholte is Professor in PAIS and Professorial Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) at the University of Warwick. He is...Read more...
VIDEO: IMF’YE OLAN BORCUN BİTMESİ EKONOMİNİN DÜZELDİĞİ MÂNÂSINA GELİR Mİ?
14 MAYIS 2013 / TV5 ANA HABER. As countries around the world struggle to emerge from the global economic crisis, are institutions such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) part of the … Category: Check Out More Videos:...Read more...
Economy contracts in March quarter
The Jamaican economy is estimated to have contracted by up to 1.2 per cent during the January to March quarter, the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) has reported.It was the fourth consecutive quarter of negative growth and has resulted in...Read more...
Sri Lanka hype runs out as economy struggles
By Amal Jayasinghe AFP: After crushing Tamil rebels four years ago Sri Lanka expected to become South Asia’s tiger economy, but exuberance has given way to mediocre growth and fears of more trouble ahead. The country was almost...Read more...
Troika releases upbeat report on Greece
FXstreet.com (Barcelona) - The European Commission and the International Monetary Fund released a report on Friday, in which they assure that Greece's austerity efforts are bringing fruit and that the country's economy should...Read more...
IMF Says Low Inflation in Uganda Spurs Business Confidence
New Vision]Kampala -Uganda's low inflation and signs the economy is gaining momentum are boosting business confidence, and growth could reach 6-7 percent in the medium term despite the loss of foreign aid, the IMF said on...Read more...
View from the South: Big money laundering trial
It’s being called the biggest money laundering trials in Swiss history—some 660 million francs—allegedly involving a former International Monetary Fund official. On today’s View from the South we head to Bellinzona where the...Read more...
Iraqi private bankers hold Ministry of Finance, CBI responsible for IQD decline; Banks and...
Download bankers and economies, on Wednesday, the Ministry of Finance and Central Bank of Iraq responsible for the decline and the reality of private banks, local, while accusing the latter encouragement of Arab Banks and Iran...Read more...
Sri Lanka could improve GDP estimates, data standards: IMF - Lanka Business Online - Google News
Sri Lanka could improve GDP estimates, data standards: IMFLanka Business OnlineMay 17, 2013 - Sri Lanka can improve gross domestic product calculations to be more in line with international standards and the country does not...Read more...
The IMF's point-man for Asia
May 18, 2013 12:41 AM SIXTEEN years after the Asian financial crisis of 1997/98, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - the world's watchdog of economic health and financial stability - is testing the waters in Asia.Read more...
INVESTMENT FOCUS-Top four central banks may change the tune
LONDON May 17 (Reuters) - The world's major central banks may be shifting their tone subtly from "whatever it takes" to "we can only do so much". Financial markets supercharged this year by the extraordinary monetary stimuli of...Read more...
IMF Gives Qualified Backing to Belgium Government's Fiscal Plans
By Laurence Norman BRUSSELS--The International Monetary Fund gave qualified backing Friday to the Belgium government's fiscal plans in its latest Article 4 review of the economy, with most directors saying the pace of...Read more...
AP PHOTOS Cubas LGBT community celebrates
Tampa Bay Online - Friday 17th May, 2013 HAVANA (AP) -- A week of drag shows, colorful marches and social and cultural events in Havana culminates Friday with celebrations of the International Day Against ... Turks and Caicos...Read more...
IMF says Cyprus at risk of even deeper recession
WASHINGTON (AP) — The International Monetary Fund said Friday that substantial risks still loom for the Cypriot economy even after a multi-billion dollar international bailout aimed at averting a debt default.Read more...
Daily Telegraph's Warner: IMF Report Shows Spain Is Insolvent
Spain is officially insolvent. Just look at the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s latest Fiscal Monitor, says U.K. Daily Telegraph columnist Jeremy Warner. His advice: Get your money out now. "I don't advise getting your...Read more...
Serbia’s January-April Budget Gap Hits 62% of Full-Year Target
Serbia’s budget gap reached 62.3 percent of the full-year target in the four months through April as social-benefit payments doubled and payments of interest rates on past debt more than tripled. The central government’s...Read more...
Caretakers nursing bleeding economy to help Nawaz manage budget
With the newly-elected government of PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif set to takeover the reigns in around a fortnight’s time, the caretaker regime is hectically involved in nursing the bleeding economy to facilitate the process of...Read more...
AUDI AG : Audi gewinnt beim Deutschen Preis für Onlinekommunikation
Ladies and gentlemen. One thing is clear: In economic terms, 2013 will be more challenging than last year. The International Monetary Fund foresees negative growth of 0.3 percent for the euro zone this year. Worldwide, the IMF...Read more...
The Weekly Gold Digger!
The Gold market has taken a beating from withdrawals from the ETF’s SPDR Gold Trust totaling about 1,041 metric tons as of yesterday. It is of further concern that John Paulson’s hedge fund, Paulson & Co. may sell the metal and...Read more...
ALBA Countries Define in Cuba Its Social Agenda
Burmese Python caught in Puerto Rico river San Diego Union-Tribune - Friday 17th May, 2013 SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -; Authorities in Puerto Rico have caught a 12-foot (3.6-meter) Burmese Python that they had been trying to find...Read more...
Business news and markets: as it happened – Friday, May 17
A worker lifts a box at Amazon’s fulfilment centre in Dunfermline. Photo: Reuters • ECB policymaker: Germany risks becoming ‘sick man of Europe’• Morrisons announces Ocado [...] The post Business news and markets: as it...Read more...
Georgia to host meeting of finance ministers of IMF, WB Dutch group member-states
From May 30 to June 1, the capital of Georgia will host a meeting of finance ministers and heads of state-owned banks of member countries of the Dutch group under the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank (WB), of...Read more...
'Do you know who I am?': New film about Strauss-Kahn depicts former IMF chief as seedy,...
Depardieu joined by Nip/Truck's Jacqueline Bisset, who plays DSK's ex-wife Pictured recreating famous moment DSK left TriBeCa home for trial in 2011 The movie, being filmed in New York, paints unsympathetic picture of DSK In...Read more...
