Finance officials meeting in Arctic consider whether the G-7 is out in the cold A meeting of finance officials from the Group of ...
Canada's prime minister says G20 Summit to be held in Toronto Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday a G-20 summit planned for ...
Survey: Gov'ts consider climate change the biggest humanitarian challenge facing the world A global network of aid agencies says world powers consider climate change the most significant challenge to humanitarian work. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says ...
Dollar down again as G20 backs ongoing stimulus, IMF says dollar remains 'on the strong side' The euro pushed back up above $1.50 Monday after finance ministers from the Group of 20 rich and developing countries steered clear from addressing the weakness ...
G-20 officials pledge to maintain stimulus until recovery assured; no deal on climate funding Finance officials from rich and developing countries have pledged to maintain emergency support for their economies until recovery is assured, but failed to reach a clear agreement to ...
G20 finance officials face task of fulfilling pledge to lessen global trade, budget imbalances Finance ministers from the world's leading rich and developing countries are gathering here Friday to begin the difficult negotiations over how to even out the imbalances weighing on ...
US: G-20 talks will develop plan for promoting more sustainable global growth The world's top finance officials this week plan to develop a peer review process to ensure their economic policies avoid the trade and budget imbalances that contributed to last year's ...
Canada central bank chief says the global financial industry should not forget who saved them The head of Canada's central bank said Monday the global financial industry is in danger of becoming arrogant by resisting regulatory change and handing out bonuses that ...
Could be a deliberate attempt to introduce uncertainty into markets At its FOMC meeting last month the Fed said that while it is more confident that the economic recovery is underway, it expects to keep interest rates low for some time to ...
THE G-20 SPEAKS While it's true that news of a secret Iranian nuclear facility stole what modest thunder the Group of 20 meeting produced, heads of state from 20 major economies did make some headway on Sept. 24-5. They annointed the G-20 ...
US, Britain link donations to World Bank to calls for internal reform The World Bank needs to become more efficient in how it uses its resources and give more say to developing economies, several member states, including major donors the U.S. and ...
THE G-20 AGENDA As befits a scary financial crisis, the leaders of 20 of the world's biggest economies have spent lots of time together lately--the Pittsburgh summit scheduled for Sept. 24-25 is their third meeting in less than a year. But despite ...
