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Jeremy Hunt targets further 2p cut in national insurance

...The fund listed the UK in its Fiscal Monitor publication on Wednesday as one of four large economies that “critically need to take policy action to address fundamental imbalances between spending and revenues...

April 19, 2024

Global Economy

US deficit poses ‘significant risks’ to global economy, warns IMF

...The fund said in its benchmark Fiscal Monitor that it expected the US to record a fiscal deficit of 7.1 per cent next year — more than three times the 2 per cent average for other advanced economies....

April 17, 2024

FT Live

The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition

FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government

Cryptofinance

Building the new generation Premium

...It’s mainly down to the price of bitcoin and the hype that US regulatory approval of exchange traded funds will usher in a new era of price appreciation....

February 23, 2024

EU economy

Subsidy race with US and China would harm Europe’s ailing economy, IMF warns

...The fund’s report comes as European policymakers are worrying about how the region’s trade-focused economy is being squeezed by mounting tension between the US and China....

April 19, 2024

Mohamed El-Erian

Markets are a frog in boiling water on Iran-Israel

...While the global economy is able to handle a transitory bump, it is already too fragile to handle a large new economic shock....

April 19, 2024

News in-depthForeign aid

Development funds dash for donor cash at World Bank and IMF meetings

...Elections in the US and UK, and competing budget demands in other critical donor nations, such as economically stagnant Germany, are prompting funds to rethink how they could use debt leverage or other new...

April 15, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

US Election Countdown

Curtain rises on Trump’s historic criminal trial with dozens of jurors rejected

...The new reading marks his highest economic approval rating since the poll began in November. But it’s not all good news....

April 16, 2024

International Monetary Fund

Georgieva to head IMF for a second term

...The fund will also host a Global Sovereign Debt roundtable, where it is hoped China and other big bilateral creditors can make progress on restructuring the debts of some of the world’s most vulnerable economies...

April 12, 2024

Ghana

Ghana’s debt restructuring deal falters after IMF rebuff

..., until the new debt matures in the 2030s....

April 15, 2024

Disrupted Times

IMF warns fiscal deficits could dent global economy

...The fund said in its Fiscal Monitor report that it expected the US to record a deficit of 7.1 per cent next year — more than three times the average for other advanced economies....

April 17, 2024

The Big Read

The precarious future facing Brazil’s new boomtowns

...This new wealth is evident. New mansions dot the city’s manicured boulevards. Imported pick-up trucks cruise its wide streets....

March 10, 2024

US economy

US to grow at double the rate of G7 peers this year, says IMF

...Strong household spending and investment will help propel US growth to 2.7 per cent this year according to the fund’s latest World Economic Outlook....

April 16, 2024

Global Economy

Blurred [sovereign debt restructuring] lines

...co-operate in promoting new co-operation projects with Sri Lanka....

April 18, 2024

International Monetary Fund

Threat of Middle East conflict triggers flight to safer assets, IMF warns

...The fund’s Global Financial Stability Report, published on Tuesday, said expectations that the world economy would avoid a much-feared recession had driven up prices in assets such as stocks and lower-grade...

April 16, 2024

Currencies

Developing country DMOs driving blind

...are full of financially-savvy employees (and banks and bond funds have hordes of them)....

April 19, 2024

FT Live

Transforming the Finance Function with AI

Strategies for delivering advanced analytics, automation and decision-making

UK GDP

UK growth forecast downgraded by IMF

...UK growth will pick up to 1.5 per cent in 2025, according to the IMF, but that is also 0.1 percentage point weaker than the fund’s January outlook....

April 16, 2024

Martin Sandbu

The EU’s recovery fund is already shaping its future

...Within the overall misery of eurozone stagnation — the bloc’s economy has flatlined since the autumn of 2022 — there are glimpses of good news....

April 7, 2024

Pensions industry

Calpers taps former New Zealand sovereign fund executive as investment chief

...In a statement on Tuesday, the $494bn pension fund said Stephen Gilmore, the former chief investment officer of the NZ$73bn (US$43.5bn) New Zealand Superannuation Fund, would become its new CIO in July,...

April 2, 2024

The Big Read

Is the global economy stumbling into ‘the tepid Twenties’?

...Instead, the world economy is being buffeted by upheavals including the pandemic and wars. “That’s clearly bad news for the global economy.”...

April 19, 2024

Martin Wolf

The shadow of war darkens on the global economy

...This is all good news....

April 16, 2024

EU Capital Markets Union

Majority of EU states object to capital markets reform push

...France recently led a push — backed by Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Poland, some of the EU’s biggest economies — to revive reforms to deepen market integration and centralise supervision....

April 18, 2024

FirstFT

FirstFT: Goldman Sachs treasurer leaves for hedge fund Millennium

...Goldman Sachs’ global treasurer Philip Berlinski is leaving the Wall Street bank after 24 years for New York-based hedge fund Millennium Management, according to two people familiar with the matter....

April 11, 2024

US equities

US equity funds draw record inflow as investors bet on soft landing

...US equity funds drew $56bn of funds in the week to March 13 — more than the previous peak of $53bn set in March 2021, Barclays said on Friday, citing data from fund tracker EPFR Global....

March 15, 2024

Middle Eastern economy

IMF warns of long-lasting economic impact of Gaza war on Middle East

...Growth in the region last year was 1.6 per cent, according to the fund, after Covid-related lockdowns and repercussions from the Ukraine conflict hit many economies in the Middle East....

April 18, 2024

The FT ViewThe editorial board

Crises are eating into development funding

...New data from the OECD, the rich-country think-tank, shows that advanced nations’ official development assistance budgets have increased in recent years....

April 16, 2024

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