Christine Lagarde

02/07 - 15:46 - Decision to nominate IMF chief taken by EU leaders after talks. Lagarde first woman to run ECB, lacks central bank background.

Mario Draghi, the president of the European Central Bank (ECB) and Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned about the global trade dispute. The trade war between the U.S. and China could get worse, Lagarde said. Europe could be hit with U.S. import tariffs on its car exports.

L'économie mondiale reste «à un tournant délicat» en raison du regain des tensions commerciales entre les Etats-Unis et ses partenaires, a souligné mercredi le FMI, exhortant les pays du G20 à maintenir les taux d'intérêt à un bas niveau pour soutenir leur économie.

By the end of last year, the primary fiscal deficit sat at 2.6 per cent of GDP — lower than the IMF’s target and a far cry from the 3.8 per cent level posted in 2017. Argentina has also made strides on the trade balance, which has swung from a large deficit to a surplus of $1.18bn as of March, amid a deepening recession.

Global finance chiefs ended talks in Washington mixing concern toward the current state of the world economy with confidence that it will soon rebound. The shift away from tighter monetary policy by central banks, recent stimulus in China and easing trade tensions were hailed as reasons to hope the slowdown will prove short-lived although nobody forecast a renewed boom.

The International Monetary Fund’s executive board approved a $10.8 billion disbursement to Argentina on Friday as part of its record credit line to the beleaguered South American nation.

La directora gerente del organismo, Christine Lagarde, se reunió con el ministro de Hacienda argentino, Nicolás Dujovne, para analizar la situación económica del país.

El crecimiento de la economía mundial es "más lento" que lo previsto, advirtió Christine Lagarde, directora general del Fondo Monetario Internacional, que advirtió sobre una "tormenta" económica

La directora gerente del Fondo Monetario Internacional (FMI), Christine Lagarde, ha felicitado al Gobierno argentino por las reformas implementadas y los progresos realizados en la estabilización de la economía en el marco del plan de rescate del país austral.