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Public Debt Management Forum Confronts the Changes, Innovations and Future Challenges in Sovereign Markets

June 2, 2017/IMF Traditional approaches to sovereign debt management will have to adapt to cope with new risks and structural and regulatory changes, even as major macroeconomic shifts in advanced and developing economies are affecting sovereign issuance strategies; these changes present opportunities but also challenges. That message underlay much of […]

IMF Board Reviews the Fund’s Income Position for Financial Years 2017–18

May 31, 2017/IMF Click here to download PDF Copy of Review The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed its annual review of the Fund’s income position for the financial years ending April 30, 2017 (FY 2017) and FY 2018, on April 26, 2017. FY 2017 Income Position Total FY 2017 net […]

Fitch: OPEC Deal to Cut Oil Inventories, But Shale Key Long-Term

May 25, 2017/Fitch Ratings OPEC’s decision to extend production cuts by nine months should provide some support for oil prices around the average year-to-date levels and help digest a significant part of excessive inventories during the rest of the year, Fitch Ratings says. However, a production surplus could return in […]