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President Donald Trump reads from a paper and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen listens after reaching a trade deal between the U.S. and the EU at the Trump Turnberry golf course in Turnberry, Scotland Sunday, July 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

IMF upgrades outlook for global economy, citing less-than-expected damage from Trump’s trade wars

By Paul Wiseman - Associated Press

Funding from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Congress must help Trump administration hold IMF accountable

By Sen. John Kennedy

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks at the forum Tokenization and the Financial System during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters in Washington, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

IMF chief urges countries to move ‘swiftly’ to resolve trade tensions that threaten global growth

By Paul Wiseman - Associated Press

Workers assemble the Zeekr 001 EV models at the Chinese automaker Zeekr assembly plant, in Ningbo, east China's Zhejiang Province, Wednesday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

U.S. and global economic outlook deteriorates in Trump trade war, IMF says

By Christopher Rugaber - Associated Press

Workers assemble the Zeekr 001 EV models at the Chinese automaker Zeekr assembly plant, in Ningbo, east China's Zhejiang Province, Wednesday, April 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

U.S., global economic outlook worsens in the face of Trump’s tariffs, IMF says

By Christopher Rugaber - Associated Press

Letters spell out IMF during a news conference about the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) World Economic Outlook report, during the IMF Spring Meetings, Tuesday, April 16, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The IMF is trying to kneecap American energy companies

By Michael McKenna

Horst Koehler, Personal Envoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations to the parties to the conflict in Western Sahara, arrives for a round table on Western Sahara at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Dec. 05, 2018. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP, File)

Former German President Horst Kohler dies at 81

By Geir Moulson - Associated Press

FILE - An Amazon worker sorts deliveries on a street corner on New York's Upper West Side, Aug. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

IMF’s economic view: A brighter outlook for U.S. but still-tepid global growth

By Paul Wiseman - Associated Press

A man reads morning newspaper in a market, which closed due to strike called by traders to protest a rise in electricity costs and new taxes imposed on shop owners, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Traders observe a daylong strike across Pakistan to protest rising costs and new taxes

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FILE - Kenya's President William Ruto gestures to party officials as he walks with his wife Rachel Ruto as he prepares to address the media at his official residence in Nairobi, Kenya Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. The ballooning debt in East Africa's economic hub of Kenya is expected to grow even more after deadly protests forced the rejection of a finance bill that President William Ruto said was needed to raise revenue. He now warns “it will have huge consequences.” (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

Kenya’s president warns of huge consequences after his effort to address an $80 billion debt fails

By Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

FILE - A hostess walks by the national flags of the United States and China ahead of the bilateral meeting between U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, at the Guangdong Zhudao Guest House in southern China's Guangdong province, April 6, 2024. Simmering tensions between Beijing and Washington remain the top worry for U.S. companies operating in China, according to a report by the American Chamber of Commerce in China released Tuesday, April 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, Pool, File)

Who is the biggest and richest?

By Richard W. Rahn

FILE - Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, IMF, speaks in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 17, 2024. During a IMF and World Bank meeting Thursday, April 18, 2024, Georgieva said the world economy has proven surprisingly resilient in the face of higher interest rates and the shock of war in Ukraine and Gaza, but "there is plenty to worry about,'' including stubborn inflation and rising levels of government debt. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

IMF’s Georgieva says there’s ‘plenty to worry about’ despite recovery for many economies

By Paul Wiseman - Associated Press

Egyptians walk past an exchange office in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. The Egyptian pound slipped sharply against the dollar on Wednesday after the Central Bank of Egypt raised its main interest rate and said it would allow the currency's exchange rate to be set by market forces. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

IMF confirms increasing Egypt’s bailout loan to $8 billion

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

Egyptians walk past an exchange office in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. The Egyptian pound slipped sharply against the dollar on Wednesday after the Central Bank of Egypt raised its main interest rate and said it would allow the currency's exchange rate to be set by market forces. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)

Egypt floats its currency and agrees with the IMF to increase a bailout loan to $8 billion

By Samy Magdy - Associated Press

A container ship is docked at a port in Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021. Japan has reported Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, that its exports jumped 20% and imports rose at an even faster pace in November as disruptions to manufacturing supply chains began to ease. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara, File)

Japan slips down global economic ladder, loses third place to Germany

By Andrew Salmon - The Washington Times

A Sri Lankan woman blows air to fire a hearth to boil sweet corn before selling them by a roadside in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023. The woman has resorted to the roadside trading after her husband lost his job in the economic crisis. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Asian Development Bank approves a $200M loan to debt-stricken Sri Lanka

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI - Associated Press

FILE - Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second from left, participates in global infrastructure and investment forum with Amos Hochstein, left, senior advisor to the president on energy and and investment, Janet Yellen, second from right, United States Secretary of Treasury, and Ajay Banga, right, World Bank president, in New York, Sept. 21, 2023. Economic crises are rippling through the countries bordering Israel. That raises the possibility of a chain reaction from the war against Hamas that further worsens the financial health and political stability of Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon and creates problems well beyond.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool)

The Israel-Hamas war could threaten already fragile economies in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan

By Fatima Hussein and Josh Boak - Associated Press

A member of the security forces stands guard outside a convention center hosting the IMF and World Bank annual meetings, in Marrakech, Morocco, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. The International Monetary Fund and World Bank kicked off their annual meeting in Marrakech on Monday, one month after a deadly earthquake struck Morocco and killed nearly 3,000 people. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

IMF outlook worsens for a ‘limping’ world economy. Mideast war poses new uncertainty

By Paul Wiseman and David McHugh - Associated Press

FILE - World Bank President David Malpass speaks at a news conference during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) headquarters in Washington, on April 13, 2023. IMF officials told reporters Wednesday in Kyiv that an announcement from U.S. President Joe Biden of his commitment to supporting Ukraine is still the baseline assumption. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

IMF expects continuing U.S. support for Ukraine despite Congress dropping aid

By David McHugh and Hanna Arhirova - Associated Press

Javier Milei, the presidential candidate of the Liberty Advances coalition, smiles at his campaign headquarters after polling stations closed during primary elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Argentina’s anti-establishment candidate Milei engages IMF in economic talks after shock primary win

By Daniel Politi and Gisela Salomon - Associated Press