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IMF mission begins reviewing Serbia's standby loan arrangement
Belgrade - An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission on Thursday began reviewing Serbia's economic policies, with two tranches of a 4-billion-dollar standby loan hinging on its verdict. The IMF and Serbia agreed to the two-year loan in March. The ...

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IMF gives Belarus 700 million dollars, praises Lukashenko
Minsk - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) loaned Belarus 700 million dollars, with fund managers praising the planning skills of the country's authoritarian leader Aleksander Lukashenko, the Belapan news agency reported Thursday. The IMF credit w...

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IMF recommends Iceland keep currency controls
Reykjavik - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recommended Iceland maintain currency controls for the time being in order to ensure a stable currency, according to a report released Tuesday. The Icelandic central bank published the 98-page rep...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Finance (General) ]

IMF chief predicts stronger Asian currencies
Singapore - The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday predicted a revaluation of major Asian currencies against the dollar as a rebalancing of the world's economy gets underway. I expect that in the coming years the revaluation o...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Finance (General) ]

Ukraine demands quick IMF payment to prevent gas crisis
Brussels - The International Monetary Fund should speed up a 3.8-billion-dollar loan to Ukraine so that the former-Soviet state can buy natural gas and prevent a new crisis in Europe, Ukraine's deputy prime minister said Wednesday. We need a short-t...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

Ukraine to pay off latest Russia gas debt from IMF account
Kiev - Ukraine will pay off its most recent outstanding gas debt to Russia by drawing on a special use International Monetary Fund (IMF) account, government officials said Friday. I hope that by the end of today (Friday), we can inform you of a succ...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

IMF earns 6.7 billion dollars in sale of gold reserves to India
Washington - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has sold 6.7-billion-dollars worth of gold to boost its own cash reserves, the crisis-lender said Monday, completing about half of a sale that was authorized in September. The IMF said it sold 200 me...

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IMF unfreezes standby loan after Serbia promises spending cuts
Belgrade - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will unfreeze funds from a 4-billion-dollar standby loan to Serbia, which in return must curb spending and reform its social care system, officials said Wednesday in Belgrade. The head of the IMF missi...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Finance (General) ]

Hong Kong's economy predicted to rebound next year
Hong Kong- Hong Kong's economy will shrink by 2 per cent this year but rebound next year to grow by 5 per cent, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Tuesday. The IMF said the city's economy was on the road to recovery with unemployment expected...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

IMF raises growth forecast for Asia, sees challenges ahead
Seoul - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Thursday raised its growth forecast for Asia as the region was rebounding rapidly from the global crisis, but it said Asia must adopt to a new world with weaker demand from its key Western export mar...

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Banks continue to hide huge losses, warns IMF head
Paris - Banks are continuing to hide huge losses from investors, imperiling the economic recovery, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was quoted Wednesday as saying. Large losses remain concealed - 50 per cent...

[Posted on : ] Category : [ Business ]

Estonia may need deeper budget cuts to adopt euro, says IMF
Tallinn - The Baltic state of Estonia may need to make deeper-than-planned cuts to its public spending if it is to qualify for euro adoption in 2011, a representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Monday. Speaking at the conclusion of...

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