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The fourth Financial Management Group (FWG) meeting, held under Indias G20 presidency, discussed supply chain resilience and its macroeconomic implications. Delegates engaged in extensive discussions on the challenges and opportunities of ensuring supply chain resilience in a global economy. The meeting also focused on the role of international cooperation in addressing external imbalances and associated risks.

Serio Massa fine-tunes negotiations with the head of the IMF. Two other officials travelled to Washington for the fine print. Key backing from US, Germany and China.

Argentinas Central Bank (BCRA) Wednesday sold US$ 130 million and 288 million yuan (around US$ 40 million) in a desperate move to keep the “blue” (a euphemism for “black market”) quotation from soaring any further after reaching AR$ 527 / US$ 1.

According to the IMFs assessment, a 10 percent dollar appreciation is associated with a decline in global current account balances by 0.4 percent of world GDP after one year.

Emerging market economies bore the brunt of the strongest U.S. dollar in two decades in 2022, a rise that battered them with capital outflows, higher import prices and tighter financial conditions, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday. The IMF said new research in its annual External Sector Report shows that the dollar's surge last year had a bigger impact on emerging markets than on smaller advanced economies, partly due to the latter group's more flexible exchange rates...

International Monetary Fund’s annual ‘External Sector Report’ highlights downside risks of China’s slow post-Covid recovery after the world’s second-largest economy grew by 6.3 per cent in the second quarter, year on year.

The International Monetary Funds annual External Sector Report shows the impact of last years US dollar rise on emerging markets and smaller advanced economies, revealing emerging markets suffered capital outflows, higher import prices, and tighter financial conditions.

NEW YORK, July 19 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. dollar appreciation driven primarily by global financial risks last year had harder negative spillovers, especially for economic activity and imports, on emerging market economies than on developed economies, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Wednesday.

More details on sugar scam come to light More details on sugar scam come to light Written by Share: COLOMBO (News1st):  More revelations of the sugar scam, that cost the country more than 15 billion rupees, has come to light. The Central Bank’s External Sector Report for the month of January 2021, reveals more details of sugar imports, that had been brought into Sri Lanka. According to the central bank, imports of sugar and confectionery items had increased by 187 percent, compared to Jan...