Brussels: A six-year push to impose a tax on financial transactions in Europe may have run its course, with Germany and France dragging their feet as they...
PARIS: The global economy may not be strong enough to withstand risks from increased trade barriers, overblown stock markets or potential currency volatility,...
The global economy is slipping into a self-fulfilling “low-growth trap” where ultra-loose monetary policy risks doing more harm than good, the Organization...
PARIS: Christine Lagarde picked up nominations from across Europe for a second term as leader of the International Monetary Fund part of a process that member...
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde has been put under formal investigation for her role in an arbitration case during her time as...
French President Francois Hollande’s government may have made a housing slump worse, pushing the construction market to its lowest in more than 15 years....
PARIS: International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde signaled a cut in the institution’s global growth forecasts, saying investment was...
President Francois Hollande has sought to diffuse voter anger about rising taxes and spending cuts by predicting that France’s economic recovery is now at...
PARIS/ WASHINGTON: French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, who has taken her campaign to head the International Monetary Fund to India and China while...
PARIS: France may have to rely on Christine Lagarde’s track record as a euro crisis fighter if she’s to become the International Monetary Fund’s first female...