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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global debt rose by around $7.5 trillion in the first three months of the year to hit a record high of over $324 trillion, data from a banking trade group showed on Tuesday. The ...
Bond vigilantes take note: The global debt situation is raising alarms for the International Monetary Fund, which on Wednesday said “off-the-charts” trade uncertainty was exacerbating a global debt ...
Economic pressures from steep new U.S. tariffs will push global public debt above pandemic-era levels to nearly 100% of global GDP by the end of the decade as slower growth and trade strain government ...
LONDON (Reuters) - The global debt-to-GDP ratio rose for the first time since 2020 last year, as the world's debt stock hit a new year-end record of $318 trillion and economic growth slowed, an ...
"I think globally, the serious, serious issue that we need to watch is sovereign debt," Mohammed Al-Jadaan told CNBC in Riyadh. Global public debt hit a record $97 trillion in 2023, prompting the ...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecast that global public debt will reach over $100 trillion by the end of this year, equivalent to 93 percent of global GDP, and hit 100 percent by the end ...
Debt isn’t necessarily a bad thing, most economies run on debt. Governments borrow money to get things done. But the tricky thing about that debt, is that it has a tendency to get away from itself.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Top U.S. and Chinese officials joined a meeting on Wednesday of the Global Sovereign Debt Roundtable, where a key topic was the lack of transparency about commercial bank loans ...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issued a new debt warning, revealing that global debt is rapidly approaching 100% of GDP. The rise in borrowing comes amid stubborn inflation, rising interest ...
SLV and the precious metals markets may provide a hedge against the excessive issuance of government debt in China, Japan, and the U.S. Rising government debt in major economies is a bullish catalyst ...