Monetary and Financial Statistics: Compilation Guide (International Monetary Fund)
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
• Levy on City trading aimed at restoring trust in banks • Survey shows more than 50% of voters back plan Gordon Brown will take his radical proposal to tax City trading to Britain's business leaders today, as a survey shows that more than half of voters would back the plan, if the proceeds went to help the poorest in society. Speaking at the CBI's annual conference in London, Brown will...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
WASHINGTON: With a proven track record in managing complex work programmes, economist Siddharth Tiwari has been named as the Secretary of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by its Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Mr. Tiwari, ...
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
One of the interesting aspects of the public discussions about the process involved in reaching an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a US$1.2 billion two-year standby agreement...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ten years have passed since the euro was launched as a common European currency by 12 members of the European Union based on the Maastricht Treaty of 1992. The euro was initially used only for interbank trading and other electronic transactions, but the debut of euro notes and coins on Jan. 1, 2002, put an end to the national currencies of the participating countries, including the German mark, which...
SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tom Lydon (ETF Trends) submits: The Chinese yuan, along with the related ETF, hasn’t shifted much because of the country’s staunch approach to monetary management. However, external and internal factors may soon change that. President Barack Obama and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, both told Chinese officials that letting the yuan appreciate...
SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tom Lydon (ETF Trends) submits: Poland may be one of the lucky few economies that has evaded the recession this year. A major ETF provider has also taken notice and a Poland-specific ETF could be coming out soon. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated that Poland’s “limited reliance on exports, flexible exchange rate and contained external and internal balances” allowed the...
Globalisation and the Environment (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
This is the question raised in a recent World Bank Working paper. The answer has to be "yes" without reading the paper. The question is the magnitude. The numbers from the abstract to not strike me as too far off for China and India. You can bet that the Chinese and Indian government's have already worked this out - this is exactly why Copenhagen is doomed to fail Can Global De-Carbonization...
The Morningside Post (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
After the Great Depression and World War II, the world powers got together in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, and cooperated on a new framework for global economic relations and created the World Bank and IMF, institutions that persist today. In a roundtable discussion, Joseph Stiglitz, Benjamin Cohen and Adam Posen discuss why they think (or don't think) such a re-organization is possible in today's...
ETF Trends (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Poland may be one of the lucky few economies that has evaded the recession this year. A major exchange traded fund (ETF) provider has also taken notice and a Poland-specific ETF could be coming out soon. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated that Poland’s “limited reliance on...
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
One of the interesting aspects of the public discussions about the process involved in reaching an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a US$1.2 billion two-year standby agreement, is that there seems to be an implicit assumption on the part ...
Jamaica Gleaner (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
WESTERN BUREAU: The US$200-million divestment cost of the national carrier Air Jamaica could be one of the major factors causing the delay in concluding negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The deadline to wrap up the IMF loan was originally slated... ...
Seeking Alpha - India (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
If stocks start to make their long anticipated retest of support, all kinds of opportunities arise from this very extended rally. Here’s just one. Check out this daily chart for gold ( click to enlarge ). Question: What’s missing from this picture? Gold Daily Chart- Chart Courtesy of AVA FX (11 Nov 19) Answer: Nearby support. Significance – Big Juicy Shorting Opportunity IF Stocks...
Pakistan Politics (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
To the struggle of a legend – Imran Khan Leaders who led the feeble skeleton of Pakistan’s politics crippled the state by implementing economic reforms of International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank . By meeting their conditions, they have become powerless, as West has been using them for their own interests. The involvement of West in policy making has blemished the concept of transparency,...
American Power (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
From the Economist , " China's Currency: A Yuan-Sided Argument ": PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, on his first visit to China this week, urged the government to allow its currency to rise. President Hu Jintao politely chose to ignore him. In recent weeks Jean-Claude Trichet, the president of the European Central Bank, and Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Still bearish, Nouriel Roubini predicts a slow recovery. In an email to Roubini Global Economic's clients, he predicts that the economy will recover in a U-Shape. His forecast is in line with Goldman Sachs, who also recently predicted that "gradually is the watch word and a V-shaped recovery remains unlikely." A V-shape recovery might be visible in Q3 private consumption rates, which grew...
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victorio | 05/08/2009
Storyline: Movie based on the television set finds Jim Phelps and his bunch charged with stopping a back-stabber from shoplifting and selling classified body. Everything was going well until the body they are consequential and each and every of the bunch are inexplicably killed exceptin for Ethan Hunt. Ethan then calls the Director and goes to find him when he discovers that the unabridged duty was...
victorio | 05/08/2009
Storyline: IMF representative Ethan Hunt has been sent on a charge to recoup and desolat the fil of a genetically created complaint called 'Chimera'. His charge is made beyond the bounds of po payable to the deed that he is not the individual in the flesh after samples of the indisposition. He necessit along with match with a clu of suspicion terrorists headed past a turned defective ex IMF representative...
integrityfx | 03/07/2009
Background… A reserve currency is a currency that is stored in large quantities by foreign central banks and financial institutions as part of their foreign exchange reserves as a means to pay off international debt obligations, or to influence their domestic exchange rate. The U.S. dollar is the primary reserve currency. A reserve currency is generally the international pricing currency for goods
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