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The IMF and key policy signals

The IMF and key policy signals

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The IMF and key policy signals

- There are a lot of places you can find U.S. economic data, but what about global economic data? We live in an interdependent global economy and for business leaders, that means watching growth in just one country, isn't enough. It's important to keep an eye on the entire global economy and the trends in growth across major economies and those where your business operates. So where to business leaders look for expectations about growth and understand the upside and downside risks to that outlook. Well, the business leaders, I know watch the global predictions forecast and outlook reports from the International Monetary Fund or the IMF. Why? Two reasons, first, because the IMF watches global data closely, towards the end of the Second World War, the IMF was created to foster economic and financial markets stability, including currency stability across the global economy. This is why the IMF has had a front row seat to…

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