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Bulgarian economist who serves as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, overseeing global economic policy and financial stability issues.
The IMF's 3.1% global growth forecast for 2026 met a US Treasury pushback in Bangkok over how the Fund weighs risks. Both sides treat AI as the growth engine, so investors have to price the disagreement themselves.
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IMF and World Bank released the Bangkok Blueprint against cyber-enabled fraud on Wednesday. It is not formal policy guidance from either institution. Thai Finance Minister Ekniti Nitithanprapas said such fraud costs the world economy around $1 trillion a year.
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Fed Chair Kevin Warsh said he will spend the next 100 days on supervision, regulation and payments processing after months absorbed by monetary policy. It lands days before the Fed's Oct. 27-28 meeting, the first of the rate decisions that will compete for his time.
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Fed Chair Kevin Warsh is interviewed in Bangkok on Friday, the last Fed speech before a blackout through the Oct. 27-28 meeting. Bank of America says inflation strengthens the case for an October hike. That meeting ends six days before the midterms.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said in Bangkok that growth cannot cut more than $40 trillion in US debt fast enough and that deficits must come down. Rates are already at multidecade highs, the Associated Press reported, so costlier capital is the safer planning assumption until budgets tighten.
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Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey and IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva warned that rising cyber-attacks risk undermining trust in finance. Georgieva said fraud could drive people out of the formal system, and Bailey pressed social media firms to share responsibility.
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IMF's fiscal monitor says average G7 10-year yields rose more than 1 percentage point after the Iran war began in February, to their highest in nearly two decades. It warns that waiting will make the eventual adjustment more painful. France and the UK both have budgets in play.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says AI infrastructure spending is holding global growth near 3%, after the fund raised its 2026 forecast to 3.1%. She also warned that AI could affect about 40% of jobs, a count of exposed roles and not a forecast of cuts.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said AI will eventually augment, downgrade or eliminate about 40% of jobs worldwide, with graduates first in line. Tharman Shanmugaratnam, who co-chairs the World Bank's Jobs Council, wants crisis-era hiring aid made permanent.
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IMF says frontier AI makes breaking into bank systems cheaper, so more banks may fail in a severe scenario even as profits rise. In cryptobriefing.com's reading, stress tests now have to cover technology risk as well as interest rates and loan defaults.
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IMF counts $1.4tn in revenue commitments across 14 circular AI deals, funded by $300bn of equity and $650bn of debt. Buyers who lean on a few AI vendors should check whether those vendors sit inside such deals, since the Fund says funding and demand could fall together.
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Malaysia closed schools in several regions last week because of haze from Indonesian fires, a phys.org roundup of El Niño impacts reports. The WMO says El Niño will keep intensifying until a December peak. Several damage reports also name causes besides the weather cycle.
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IMF says the emergency oil stocks that helped contain the US-Iran war's price shock are now depleted. Governments with high debt and deficits have little capacity to shield consumers from another jump, the fund warned.
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IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva said the AI investment boom could lift growth in advanced Asian economies by up to 1 percentage point. For emerging Asia the range is 0.2 to 0.8 points, a fourfold spread from bottom to top.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva calls AI investment a positive demand shock, with AI hardware already above 10% of global goods trade. The spending has come alongside inflationary pressure, according to cryptobriefing.com's account of her October remarks.
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UNDP's No Time to Recover report says governments shielding up to 130 million of the world's poorest from high oil prices are running out of money. With conditions expected to worsen into spring, the cost of $100 oil is moving from state budgets onto households.
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Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey said credible budgets can curb risk premia in a Middle East conflict, as 10-year gilts near 5.5% from 4.2% in March. For companies, Chancellor John Healey's Budget this month now affects borrowing costs alongside the Bank's next rate move.
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UK 30-year gilt yields hit their highest level since 1998 this week as a global bond sell-off deepened. Economists cited by the Guardian think about half of the £24bn fiscal buffer has already gone before John Healey's first budget on 28 October.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva urged governments to stop delaying debt cuts and raise borrowing costs as needed before 191 members meet in Bangkok. Her prescription points companies toward higher rates, while her call to regulate AI stayed at the level of principle.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said AI could add up to half a point a year to world growth, with investment set to match or exceed the railroads' share of GDP. The same boom lifts inflation and competes with governments for bond money, so economies outside the AI supply chain risk the higher rates without the growth.
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