The IMF head cut the growth forecast for ‘off graphs’ trade uncertainty

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Uncertainty for global trade policy, the IMF President Donald Trump said that the tariffs of Donald Trump played the global growth and potentially play potential with financial markets.

Cristalina Georgieva will lead to growth estimates of the US largest shareholder, which is the largest shareholder of the United States on Thursday.

However, although next week raises its predictions for the IMF price pressure, the US President’s policy will stop the global economy in the open decline.

“The volatility of financial markets is up,” he said. “And the uncertainty of trade policy is almost out of the graphs.”

His comments came ahead Car World Bank’s Spring matches in Washington, Trump is dominated by Trump’s threat to the highest level in more than a century.

The financial ministers from all over the world are expected to try to meet with US colleagues of next week’s meeting and negotiate a decline tariffs Declared by Trump on April 2.

Ajay Banga, President World BankOn Wednesday, the governments called “take care of negotiations and dialogue.”

“It will be really important at this stage,” and decided to take a break from the implementation of “mutual” tariffs for 90 days. “We’re doing this faster, how good it is.”

The forecasting of the Foundation will take part in the final publication of the world economic outlook. In January, the IMF was strengthened by both 2025 and in 2026 and in the United States in 2026 with strong growth in the United States.

After surprising the markets after Trump More aggressive trading policy More than expected, many analysts, with some, with some, with some of the world’s largest economy, and lowered their predictions.

The Peterson Institute of Economics said this was earlier this week US economy In 2024, 0.1 percent will decrease by 0.1 percent.

Georgieva said the Trump management tariffs were in charge of “confidence erosion” in some US’s largest trading partners in the largest trade partners in charge of “trust erosion” for exporters.

Washington also provided production subsidies through measures such as former President Joe Biden, an act of inflation reduction in inflation to produce tax benefits in the United States.

Both Trump and Biden, the Beijin’s production industry emphasized the public support for the American. Trump threatened Brussels with 20 percent of the tariffs, and 145 percent of the car in China.

Georgieva Also, continuing uncertainty on trade policy, and when the US government has increased the expenditures of the US government, as a stress of the financial market, such as sales, he has created more financial market episodes.

The IMF managing director described the actions in the markets, which saw the US exchange rate as “unusual”.

“Despite uncertainty, dollar impairment and the US Treasury Treasury Curls ‘smile’ – not a smile that he wanted to see,” he said, “The actions should be accepted as a warning.”

The fall of the dollar within the market panic questioned whether the status of global reserve currency was under threat.

“Something benefited from such powerful network effects, something that benefited from such powerful network effects, the former Treasury official, the former Treasury official, which is a professor of the University of Chicago now, Brent Neiman.

“However, large changes in the US steady policy and the rules and the current order of the current order may undoubtedly affect.”