Showing posts with label global economic risks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label global economic risks. Show all posts

Saturday, June 25, 2011

BOJ's Morimoto warns of global risks, upbeat on output

Global economic risks have heightened somewhat following a slew of weak U.S. data but not enough to affect the outlook for Japan's economy, a Bank of Japan policymaker said, reinforcing views that the central bank will remain on hold in the near term.

Yoshihisa Morimoto also repeated the central bank's view that Japanese output and exports will return to levels seen before the March 11 disaster in the third quarter, as companies make steady progress restoring supply chains.

Sunday, April 17, 2011

IMF, World Bank meetings mark host of global economic challenges

Leaders from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank this weekend outlined a number of global economic risks, chief among them surging food prices, inflation, an uneven worldwide recovery and overheating in Asia.

While the global economy has shown signs of improvement, it remains in a "fairly fragile" state, said IMFC Chairman Tharman Shanmugaratnam at a press briefing on Saturday.