IMF 'ready to provide assistance' in Greek crisis: Lagarde

Washington :- The International Monetary Fund is carefully monitoring the unfolding financial crisis in Greece and neighbouring countries, and is ready to provide assistance “as needed,” Managing Director Christine Lagarde said today.

Greek euro exit fears rise as IMF rebuffs payment delay

Washington (AFP) - Top European officials and Greece's finance minister were on Thursday forced to play down fears that the country was poised to exit the eurozone, after the IMF rejected suggestions that Athens would postpone loan repayments.

Getting used to the 'new mediocre'

Until a dramatic selloff, exuberant markets had raced well ahead of the economies that underpin them, partly because the U.S. Federal Reserve and other central banks flooded the financial system with new money.

IMF 'confident' Lagarde can continue despite investigation

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed confidence in its leader Christine Lagarde, despite her being investigated for negligence in France.

Germany should drive economic recovery in Europe, IMF chief says

Geneva (AFP) - IMF chief Christine Lagarde wants Germany to play a bigger role in propelling economic recovery in Europe, she hinted in an interview broadcast on Monday, suggesting that German wages should rise.

IMF urges 'steady implementation' of Ukraine loan program

(Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund urged Ukraine's leaders on Friday to press forward with "steady implementation" of economic reforms agreed with the fund, a day after the prime minister tendered his resignation.

IMF chief hints at cut in growth forecasts

Global economic activity should strengthen in the second half of the year and accelerate in 2015, although momentum could be weaker than expected, Christine Lagarde, head of the International Monetary Fund, said on Sunday, hinting at a slight cut in the fund's growth forecasts.

Eurozone inflation fall raises prospects of damaging deflationary spiral

The European Central Bank will almost certainly act this week to breathe life into the eurozone's struggling economy after a shock fall in inflation, economists said.

IMF's Lagarde calls for more ECB stimulus: paper

(Reuters) - Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, has repeated calls for more stimulus from the European Central Bank to keep at bay the risk of persistently low inflation in the euro zone.

Christine Lagarde angers Spain with repeat prescription of austerity

Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund, has poured cold water on claims from the Spanish government that the recession is over and the country is on the road to recovery.

Spain's February jobless slips 0.04 pc m/m to 4.8 million

MADRID: Spain's government hailed Tuesday a wafer-thin cut in the nation's jobless queues in February, a fresh sign that the labour market is stabilising after the loss of millions of jobs since 2008.

Eurozone officially enters recession

The eurozone is now officially in recession, mainly due to a slump in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, and Italy, while France has narrowly escaped the same fate.

The IMF’s fiddling achieves nothing

Fresh from the calamity of the Cypriot bail-out, a fiasco that he personally oversaw, he was at it again at the International Monetary Fund’s spring meeting in Washington last week.

The Euro Zone Crisis Is Back - on Multiple Fronts

Europe's finance ministers meeting in Dublin on Friday are facing a renewed crisis on multiple fronts,with a backlash against austerity acting as a gloomy backdrop for negotiations over bailout extensions for Portugal and Ireland, while tackling Cyprus's botched bailout and growing worries about Slovenia.

IMF chief Christine Lagarde urges further debt reduction from leading economies

BERLIN: The head of the International Monetary Fund says the world's leading economies must continue to cut government spending despite an overall situation of only "tepid growth."

Debt cuts only way to sustainable growth: Germany

BANGKOK: Slashing government debt is the only way to put Europe back on a path of sustainable economic growth, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Monday.

IMF chief urges action in tackling euro crisis

TOKYO (AP) — The head of the International Monetary Fund on Thursday called for urgent action to tackle Europe's debt problems and an approaching fiscal crisis in the U.S., warning that the struggling world economy is already falling short of even pessimistic expectations.

Eurozone crisis: Greece may gain more time to pay debts

Eurozone finance ministers hinted on Friday that Greece may be given more time to pay its debts, though they ruled out a third bailout, which most economists believe will be needed before Athens can get back on its feet.

Andrew Tyrie urges IMF to lead the fight against the eurozone 'fire', sees Greek exit from euro

The International Monetary Fund must take decisive control of the eurozone crisis or risk a “global economic fire”, Andrew Tyrie, the chairman of the Commons Treasury Select Committee, has warned.

Euro Leaders Seek Global Help After Firewall Boosted

Efforts to resolve the two-year-old European debt crisis swung back to world leaders after euro-area policy makers boosted a firewall designed to overcome doubts about their crisis response and to lure additional emergency aid.