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IMF's Rato sees risks to market solutions

International Monetary Fund chief Rodrigo de Rato said in an interview released Thursday that a reliance on market forces alone to resolve global economic imbalances could prove dangerous and expensive.

"The U.S. current account deficit is very large, and it's in everyone's interest that the deficit is reduced in an orderly manner," he told the IMF's biweekly Survey magazine.

Rato urged all major players in the global economy to address global imbalances through policy changes rather than by

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