G7
O'Neill signals hands-off stance on world economy
Paul O'Neill, the U.S. Treasury secretary, on Feb 14, 2001 indicated the new Bush administration would take a strongly skeptical view of official intervention in global markets to help stabilize the world economy, the Financial Times reported in its Feb…
IMF's Koehler sees Europe 2001 growth exceeding US
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Horst Koehler said on Feb 15 he saw European GDP growth in 2001 of some three percent against two percent expected for the United States. In a wide-ranging conversation with Italian business daily Il Sole 24…
G7 to review global economy at Palermo fortress
When the world's leading financial barons meet in Sicily this weekend [Feb 16, 2001] to review their armoury for spurring the global economy, they will do so at a site chosen as a strategic look-out point dating back more than 2,000 years. Finance…