Updated on 02/18/2022 04:15 pm The International Monetary Fund (IMF) spoke about the three risks that Latin American countries will face. In the first place is the suffering of new outbreaks of the coronavirus that slow down the recovery of the economies. Although there is progress in the vaccination process, there is no certainty that […]
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The IMF and the World Bank will hold their assembly from April 18 to 24 in a hybrid format
Updated on 02/17/2022 01:03 pm The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WB) will hold their annual spring meeting from April 18 to 24 in a hybrid format, digital and with a physical presence at their headquarters in Washington, DC. Both international financial institutions announced in a statement that participants in the […]
Central Bank of Argentina slightly accelerates devaluation of the peso pending agreement with the IMF
Updated on 02/08/2022 04:19 pm The central bank of Argentina This Tuesday, it allowed the peso to slightly accelerate its devaluation rate in search of cutting the exchange delay in the face of high inflation, at a time when signals are expected about a soon agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF)estimated operators. Argentina reached […]
Five obstacles that Argentina must overcome to agree with the IMF
The Argentine government announced on January 28 the outlines of an initial agreement with the International Monetary Fund, but there are still many obstacles to overcome before sealing the deal. The talks made important progress and led officials to announce an understanding on key issues, including the pace of government spending and the central bank’s […]
Argentina: seven keys to the agreement with the IMF to refinance its enormous debt
“We had a rope around our neck and now, a way to go,” said the president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, this Friday announcing an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to refinance the debt for US$ 44,500 million contracted in 2018. Since 2020, Argentina had been in a tough negotiation with the IMF to […]
Argentina and the IMF, stumbling over the same stone
Argentina reached this Friday with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) an agreement of extended facilities with which it will replace the stand-by for US $ 44,000 million signed in 2018 and whose maturities were concentrated in 2022 and 2023. “We had an unpayable debt that left us without a present or a future and now […]
IMF warns of possible market correction due to interest rate hikes
The rises of interest rates by major central banks could trigger corrections in global stock markets, warned the International Monetary Fund (IMF), highlighting signs of “overvaluation” of some assets. “This is the year in which the main central banks, including the US Federal Reserve (Fed), are going to correct their highly accommodative monetary policies”, declared […]
IMF’s Georgieva says Fed acts responsibly, fight COVID-19 also key
Updated on 01/21/2022 10:10 am The managing director of International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, He stated that not only central bankers must fight inflation, but that other policy makers have a key role to play, among other things, by promoting vaccination to end the coronavirus pandemic. COVID-19. Georgieva told a virtual panel at the […]
With omicron, the world economy sees the opportunity to overcome COVID-19
Governments around the world are relaxing quarantine rules, reviewing controls by the coronavirus and reducing emergency aid from the time of the pandemic, in an attempt to return their economies to a certain normality. The measures, motivated by the less seriousness of the omicron variant and the need to keep workers employed and the global […]
IMF leader warns of stimulus withdrawal complications
Updated on 01/13/2022 01:41 am The world faces greater uncertainty and potential complications this year as the economic recovery momentum is slowing and risks looming from inflation and supply chain bottlenecks, said the International Monetary Fund leader. . The IMF is bracing for a possible surge in demand for its loans this year as a […]