International Monetary Fund

American  

noun

1. an international organization that promotes the stabilization of the world's currencies and maintains a monetary pool from which member nations can draw in order to correct a deficit in their balance of payments: a specialized agency of the United Nations. IMF, I.M.F.

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International Monetary Fund British  

noun

1. IMF. an international financial institution organized in 1945 to promote international trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies. A fund is maintained out of which member nations with temporary balance-of-payments deficits may make withdrawals

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International Monetary Fund Cultural  

1. An agency, dominated by wealthy nations, that lends money to developing nations.

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International Monetary Fund

Higher crude prices and "protracted uncertainty and structural headwinds" led the International Monetary Fund to last week slightly downgrade its projection for China's annual growth this year to 4.5 percent.

From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026

Here are the key moments from his appearance at the International Monetary Fund meetings on Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Speaking Friday at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank’s annual meeting in Bangkok, Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh declined to share any expectations for the central bank’s upcoming rate-setting meeting.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

But borrowing short when inflation threatens to push short-term rates higher can “amplify the monetary-fiscal feedback,” warn Era Dabla-Norris and Rodrigo Valdés of the International Monetary Fund.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Six months from that moment, the International Monetary Fund would put losses on U.S.-originated subprime-related assets at a trillion dollars.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

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