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Christine Lagarde moves to a whole new world as president of the European Central Bank.

The powerful Argentinian CGT umbrella union has grounded flights and disrupted work at key grain ports across the country in response to austerity measures taken by President Mauricio Macri.

American consumers and importers are the biggest losers in Trump's trade war vs. China, asserts the IMF.

Senior economist Boris Glass said the U.K. economy has foregone economic activity of £6.6 billion in each of the 10 quarters since the 2016 referendum.

Investment strategist Hugh Johnson told International Business Times that the stocks are undervalued and the S&P could close the year higher than current levels.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Saturday that Washington wants to include a provision to deter currency manipulation in future trade deals, including with Japan, based on the currency chapter in the new deal to revamp NAFTA.

Sustained trade tensions could slash Asia's economic growth by up to 0.9 percentage point in coming years, the International Monetary Fund said, urging policymakers in the region to liberalize markets to offset the fall in export sales.

China reported on Friday an unexpected acceleration in export growth in September and a record trade surplus with the United States, which could exacerbate an already-heated dispute between Beijing and Washington.

Risks to the global financial system have risen over the past six months and could increase sharply if pressures in emerging markets escalate or global trade relations deteriorate further, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday.

IMF cut its global economic growth forecasts for 2018 and 2019, saying the U.S-China trade war was taking a toll and emerging markets were struggling with tighter liquidity and capital outflows.

The Argentine peso rose 4.43 percent on Thursday, and investors cited optimism that the recession-hit country will strike a new standby financing agreement with the International Monetary Fund aimed at guaranteeing government solvency.

Two-minute televised speech by President Mauricio Macri condemned for spreading more unease about the parlous state of the Argentine economy.

The U.S. has threatened to impose tariffs on up to $150 billion of Chinese imports to try to force changes in Beijing's industrial policies.

The president may have intentionally misrepresented exactly how much money he earned.

With 78.4 percent of the votes counted, Lenin Moreno led with 38.83 percent against right-winger Guillermo Lasso’s 28.63 percent.

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro has increased the country’s minimum wage for the fifth time in a year.

Despite her conviction, Christine Lagarde will remain head of the IMF.

Amid the country’s growing economic crisis, Venezuelans are increasingly using digital currency bitcoin.

Incumbent John Dramani Mahama will again face off against Nana Akufo-Addo in Ghana’s presidential election Wednesday.

With low oil prices slowing Gulf states' economies, the IMF revised its projections for growth in Saudi Arabia and Iran, predicting challenges ahead for major oil industry juggernauts.

The yuan joins the U.S. dollar, the euro, the yen and British pound in the special drawing rights basket, which determines currencies that countries can receive as part of IMF loans.

The most populous U.S. state has outpaced the rest of the country on job growth, California’s finance department said in its June bulletin this week.

China’s economy grew at its slowest pace in a quarter of a century last year, weighed down by weak demand at home and abroad.

Athens was offered debt relief beginning in 2018 if that is necessary to meet agreed criteria on its payments burden.

Eurozone countries are expected to approve the loans, but Athens is unlikely to get debt relief because of the bloc’s differences with the International Monetary Fund.

Cyprus’ Democratic Rally party is ahead in the general election with 30.6 percent of the vote.

Japan's extraordinarily easy monetary policy has increased growth and equity prices, IMF researchers have found.

Boris Johnson, the former London Mayor, said during an interview that the 28-member bloc and Hitler shared the purpose to unify Europe under a “single authority.”

In comments made during a press conference Friday, the international lender added its voice to the growing chorus against the U.K.’s exit from the European Union.