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(The US is) a major leader in economic growth around the world. It cannot let that happen.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I just cannot believe that they would let such a major, major disaster happen.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m on the same page as Henry Kissinger or Kevin Rudd, the new Australian Ambassador (to the US), conflict is not unavoidable.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
If (banks) don’t lend too much credit, and if they manage their risk, it might reduce the work that we have to do to reduce inflation, but if they reduced too much credit, then it will weigh on growth excessively.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
If you look at all the forecasts at the moment, it’s all positive, it’s been slightly downgraded, but overall, we have a recovery.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
There will be more inflationary pressure coming out of that added demand in commodities, and energy in particular.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The amount of LNG that [China] will be buying from the rest of the world will be higher than we have seen, there will be more inflationary pressure coming out of that added demand in commodities, and energy in particular.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
We need to be very flexible and not start creating the anticipation that the exit is in the next few weeks, months.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
Given the persistence that we need to demonstrate to deliver on our commitment, forward guidance will certainly be revisited.
Found on Reuters 2 years ago
There are clearly signs of improvement, progress with vaccination campaigns and an envisaged gradual relaxation of containment measures underpin expectations of a firm rebound in economic activity in the course of 2021.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
We have this extraordinary move from the Europeans altogether deciding to borrow together, but it's now a question of delivering.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have vaccines — more by the week, which is good. They're being manufactured, they're being distributed, but people are not yet vaccinated. So it's going to take a while until we have this herd immunity, which will not be in and of itself satisfactory because we have the variants.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
That's the moment which I think is the most difficult, the most subtle, and where judgment will have to be applied.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
We expect the upswing to gather pace around the middle of the year, even if the uncertainties persist, let’s be clear: we will not see a return to pre-pandemic levels of economic activity before mid-2022.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Once the impact of the pandemic fades, a recovery in demand, supported by accommodative fiscal and monetary policies, will put upward pressure on inflation over the medium term.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The resurgence of the pandemic and the associated intensification of containment measures have likely led to a decline in activity in the fourth quarter of 2020 and are also expected to weigh on activity in the first quarter of this year.
Found on Reuters 3 years ago
While the resumption of trade talks between the United States and China is welcome, tariffs already implemented are holding back the global economy, and unresolved issues carry a great deal of uncertainty about the future.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
A significant disruption to the financial landscape is likely to come from the big tech firms, who will use their enormous customer bases and deep pockets to offer financial products based on big data and artificial intelligence.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Over the last five years, technology growth in China has been extremely successful and allowed millions of new entrants to benefit from access to financial products and the creation of high-quality jobs, but it has also led to two firms controlling more than 90% of the mobile payments market.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
But we expect that at the end of 2019 and in 2020 it will bounce back.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Obviously, the downside risk that we have is continued trade tensions between the United States and China, and if these tensions are not resolved, that clearly is a risk going forward.
Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Debt sustainability and green sustainability will strengthen BRI sustainability.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
History has taught us that, if not managed carefully, infrastructure investments can lead to a problematic increase in debt, i have said before that, to be fully successful, the Belt and Road should only go where it is needed. I would add today that it should only go where it is sustainable, in all aspects.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It has to be a large majority of the membership actually recognizing diplomatically the authorities that they regard as legitimate.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
With revenues down, fiscal deficits are only slowly declining, despite significant reforms on both the spending and revenue sides, including the introduction of VAT and excise taxes, this has led to a sharp increase in public debt, from 13 percent of GDP in 2013 to 33 percent in 2018.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Unsurprisingly, a weaker global environment has knock-on effects on the region through a variety of channels - trade, remittances, capital flows, commodity prices, and financing conditions.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Does that mean a global recession is around the corner? No. But the risk of a sharper decline in global growth has certainly increased.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It can very well have disciplinary conditions attached.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This centralized budget capacity does not need to become a payment facility, it can very well have disciplinary conditions attached.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The global outlook has weakened further over the last six months so you can (deduce) from that there will be a slight revision (in the IMF estimates).
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Let me be clear: we are on alert, not alarm. There has been a loss of growth momentum, however, if policymakers can confront the challenges and act together, the positive effects on global confidence - and the global economy - will be substantial.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
For emerging economies, this could raise vulnerabilities in sectors with dollar exposures, especially corporates.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The key issue going forward will be the pace of normalisation. We agree that it should be gradual as announced, as stressed actually by the Fed, and based on clear evidence of firmer wage or price pressures.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Beyond dollar appreciation, there is also the potential for increased exchange rate volatility, this volatility could be induced not only by the divergence in monetary policies in major advanced economies, but also by uncertainty about their overall prospects and policy action.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The country (Cameroun) and the entire CEMAC region are confronted with the twin shocks of the oil-price slump and a surge in disruptions related to security.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The renminbi's inclusion in the SDR is a clear indication of the reforms that have been implemented and will continue to be implemented.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The continuation and deepening of these efforts will bring about a more robust international monetary and financial system, which in turn will support the growth and stability of China and the global economy.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
As the G20 leaders gather in Turkey this weekend, they will have on their minds heartbreaking images of displaced people fleeing countries gripped by armed conflict and economic distress, migration is a global issue. We must all work together to address it.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
So, what we have said is, the IMF thinks that it is better to make sure that the data are absolutely confirmed, that there is no uncertainty, neither on the front of price stability, nor on the front of employment and unemployment, before it actually makes that move, and that would call for being in the curve, rather than necessarily ahead of the curve or indeed behind the curve.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
It should really do it for good, if I may say, in other words, not give it a try and have to come back.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The authorities and the supervisors constantly have to remain vigilant particularly when there are those new and innovative products...those risks have to be under the watch of the supervisors, be they in traditional banking, be they in these disruptive banking systems or in these shadow banking systems.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What has been demonstrated in the last few weeks is how much Asia is at the core of the global economy, and how much disruption in one market in Asia can actually spill over to the rest of the world.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have received so many 'latest' offers, which themselves have been validated, invalidated, changed, amended, over the course of the last few days, that it's quite uncertain exactly where the latest proposal stands, i think there is a democratic process that is underway, and that should result in hopefully more clarity, less uncertainty as to what is the determination of the Greek people, and what is the authority of the Greek government.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We do not have a choice as to who represents a country, and we take all governments, duly elected ... as the legitimate partner in the negotiations.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are all in the process of working towards a solution for Greece, and I would not say that we already have reached substantial results, things have moved, but there is still a lot of work to do.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
What is needed is a culture that induces bankers to do the right thing even if nobody is watching.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
They are competent, intelligent, they've thought about their issues. We have to listen to them, we are starting to work together and it is a process that is starting and is going to last a certain time.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
We believe that global growth is still too low, too brittle and too lopsided.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Should lower oil prices and a stronger recovery in the United States make us more upbeat about the prospects for the global economy? the answer is most likely 'No.'.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
A shot in the arm (from lower oil prices) is good, but if the global economy is weak on its knees, it's not going to help.
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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