Disbursements would depend on the country's balance of payments needs.
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Bank of Italy releases balance of payments data for May.
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Unfortunately, we don't have comprehensive regional balance of payments data.
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But it has punched a hole in the balance of payments.
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Some investors are worried about Britain's large balance of payments deficit.
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We actually do have a positive balance of payments with Canada.
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Analysts said it affirmed Turkey's vulnerabilities on the balance of payments front.
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Not for the first time, Pakistan faces a balance-of-payments crisis.
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Back then, a balance of payments crisis pushed India towards the market.
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As a matter of definition, the balance of payments has to balance.
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But in the end, the balance of payments must always be zero.
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"Our international balance of payments are relatively safe and sound," the official said.
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But Brazil shows no signs of an old-fashioned balance-of-payments crisis.
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The IMF programme has eased near-term pressure on the balance of payments.
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One analyst said it affirmed Turkey's vulnerabilities on the balance of payments front.
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To avoid a full-blown balance of payments crisis, Islamabad needs outside help.
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Not for the first time, an incoming government faces a balance-of-payments crisis.
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In 2015, Britain had a £3.4bn ($5.2bn) positive balance of payments on legal services.
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At no point since the crisis began has Ukraine's balance of payments looked strong.
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PHILIPPINE C.BANK SEES 2019 BALANCE OF PAYMENTS SURPLUS AT $4.8 BLN (PREVIOUS $3.7 BLN)
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There was a surplus of $4.7 billion for the full-year balance of payments.
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If that was the world's balance of payments, Asian surpluses would cover American deficits.
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Russia's position seems enviable in comparison - healthy currency reserves and a balance of payments surplus.
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Germany now generates the largest balance of payments surplus of any country in the world.
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The full balance of payments data is available on the central bank website: www.nbp.pl/home.aspx?
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The reserves could be influenced by several factors, including changes in China's international balance of payments.
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South Africa depends on foreign investment to finance its big budget and balance of payments deficits.
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Armenian authorities do not intend to draw the funds unless shocks generate balance of payments needs.
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Deposits are growing 6 to 19933 percent and Lebanon's balance of payments is now in equilibrium.
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To read more about the euro zone's balance of payments, please click: here ($1 = 0.8883 euros)
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In Pakistan, the sudden credit scarcity caused a balance-of-payments crisis and stifled GDP growth.
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A large balance of payments deficit makes it particularly vulnerable compared to most other developed countries.
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This is explained by the balance of payments, which covers all of a country's international transactions.
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The figures also showed the country's balance of payments shortfall was its widest in two years.
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Balance of payments, you can argue, you buy the goods, but the capital comes back in.
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Lebanon has some of the world's worst debt and balance-of-payments ratios, and its ability to dodge financial disaster has for years confounded critics, whose warnings of debt defaults, balance of payments crises and a collapse of the pound currency, have all failed to materialise.
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The balance of payments deficit continues to be funded by strong capital inflows, central bank data showed.
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The collapse in profits from British multinationals is the reason why Britain's balance of payments looks bad.
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President Maithripala Sirisena's government has tightened fiscal and monetary policies as it faces balance-of-payments pressure.
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Yet Mr Khan's aspirations have careened into Pakistan's immediate challenge: a full-blown balance-of-payments crisis.
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The balance of payments has to balance – a current account surplus must equal a capital account deficit.
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The other worry is Turkey's balance of payments deficit of roughly 4 percent of annual economic output.
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But the latest UK balance of payments figures also released on Friday underlined sterling's longer-term vulnerabilities.
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The country urgently needs a capital boost in order to avert a looming balance of payments crisis.
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Since the balance of payments of the world has to balance, these surpluses are other countries' deficits.
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With the end of the commodity boom, growing numbers of countries face a balance-of-payments crisis.
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The trade balance is included in the balance of payments, similar to a firm's cash flow statements.
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What I want to focus on in this piece is the effects on the balance of payments.
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Helping countries hit with balance-of-payments crises is the job of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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During April-June India's balance of payments slipped into deficit for the first time in six quarters.
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"Brexit could generate a UK balance of payments crisis," Daniel Vernazza, lead UK economist at UniCredit, said.
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Cuba does not publish up-to-date information on its debt, balance of payments and current account.
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Pakistan is facing a balance of payments crisis, its currency has rapidly devalued, its debt is soaring.
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A complementary measure comes from the foreign profits of all firms as recorded in balance-of-payments statistics.
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The returns on the foreign operations of all firms have fallen, too, based on balance-of-payments statistics.
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But strong foreign portfolio inflows and foreign direct investments will strengthen the country's balance of payments (BOP) position.
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"The macroeconomic impact or the balance of payments growth impact from the sanctions will remain limited," he said.
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Official data for inflation, the national accounts, and balance of payments has not been published since end-2015.
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The access provided under AGOA is important for GDP growth, the balance of payments and private sector employment.
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U.S. balance of payments data shows some $300 billion of such earnings was repatriated in the first quarter.
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The fourth quarter balance of payments surplus was $4.1 billion, reversing a deficit of $856 million in July-September.
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Oreshkin said the rouble's current exchange rate corresponds to the balance of payments and the oil price, RIA reported.
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Pakistan's new president, Imran Khan, requested the bailout in October to deal with a mounting balance-of-payments crisis.
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The request to the state-run carrier comes as the cash-strapped government faces a balance of payments crisis.
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The overall balance of payments swung to a small surplus last year from a deficit in the previous year.
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The government of Pakistan turned to the IMF for a loan to help ease a balance-of-payments crisis.
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The balance of payments was at $0.7 billion in the first quarter, after minus $2.5 billion a year ago.
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Meanwhile, runaway borrowing for vanity projects under Mr Rajapaksa left the new government with a balance-of-payments crisis.
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As a result, $23.53 billion was repatriated in the first quarter of 2018, U.S. balance of payments data indicates.
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Mr Pritchett reckons that its research helped shape India's successful response to its balance-of-payments crisis in 1991.
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Down Under, Australia's balance of payments reflected a A$3.1 billion ($2.31 billion) current account deficit, wider than expected.
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And linked with this, we see a certain increase in the outflow of capital in the balance of payments.
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The big balance of payments deficits behind the infamous Fragile Five selloff in 24 are no longer a problem.
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Warnings of debt defaults, balance of payments crises and a collapse of the pound currency have all failed to materialise.
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"Whatever has happened again today is the reflection of growing pressure on the balance of payments side," Khan told Reuters.
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The overall balance of payments surplus tumbled to $1.42 billion from $5.38 billion in the same quarter a year prior.
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Sri Lanka has a major balance of payments crisis, she noted, with government debt to GDP at around 75.5 percent.
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Mr Rajan was appointed in the midst of an incipient balance-of-payments crisis, which he did well to defuse.
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The fund was also in charge of issuing short-term loans to countries struggling to meet their balance of payments.
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These include maintaining growth and price stability, maintaining the balance of payments, reforming the banking sector and developing financial markets.
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Before that, it put an end to the release of balance of payments figures and its consumer product scarcity index.
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The government faced a debt and balance-of-payments crisis earlier this year before the IMF came to the rescue.
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Since Argentina was running into balance of payments problems toward the end of President Cristina Fernández's term, this was significant.
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IMF publishes 2020 Article IV Consultation report on Italy (1100 GMT) Bank of Italy releases January balance of payments data.
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Most notably, dollar hegemony affords the U.S. the ability to run large and prolonged budget and balance-of-payments deficits.
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The IMF has demanded the cap be repealed as a condition for Kenya to access its balance of payments support.
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The countries it affected went on to make sure they would not be at risk of another balance-of-payments crisis.
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But faced with a debt and balance-of-payments crisis, the new government eventually allowed all the projects to go ahead.
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That would reduce outward remittances of money, helping Saudi Arabia's balance of payments further, but it would drag on economic growth.
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The IMF warns that Pakistan may struggle to repay China's loans, which could in turn prompt a balance-of-payments crisis.
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The central bank added that changes in currency policy, in effect since last year, are stabilising the country's balance of payments.
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He added that the international balance of payments position is basically stable, while cross-border capital flow risks are under control.
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Without balance of payments support from international financial institutions, Mugabe's government spends more than 80 percent of its budget on salaries.
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The State Bank of Pakistan has said a weaker rupee would help the economy grow and ease balance of payments pressures.
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The country faces a balance-of-payments crisis, with a record $18 billion current account deficit for the last fiscal year.
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With balance of payments crises a real risk, Fragile Five currencies and stocks fell 10-20 percent after the taper hints.
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The fiscal deficit has ballooned to about 7 percent of gross domestic product and a balance of payments crisis is looming.
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A weak banking sector represents a large contingent liability, and there are gaps in data, particularly on the balance of payments.
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That is a simple fact derived from the rule that the world's balance of payments has to be equal to zero.
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Remember, the balance of payments has to balance: the sum of current and capital accounts has to be equal to zero.
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Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has said Britain's balance of payments shortfall leaves it reliant on the "kindness of strangers".
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" It's "going to create a very, very onerous balance of payments problem for them going forward especially if oil goes high.
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He faces stiff challenges, including stabilising a faltering rupee, averting a balance of payments and debt crisis and boosting a sluggish economy.
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He was discussing his country's request for an emergency loan from the IMF to help ward off a balance-of-payments crisis.
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Over the past three years the government has successfully staved off a balance-of-payments crisis, achieving some measure of macroeconomic stability.
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To avert a balance-of-payments crisis, Pakistan has asked the IMF for its umpteenth bail-out, which gives Mr Trump leverage.
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These days, India appears to be in a far stronger negotiating position than it was during the 1991 balance of payments crisis.
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Another, Pakistan, the biggest recipient of BRI projects, is facing a balance-of-payments crisis and has begged China for easier terms.
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This greatly reduced potential balance-of-payments and exchange rate risks arising from currency mismatches between the estates' assets and creditor claims.
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Pakistan has also been struggling to avert a balance of payments crisis and to prevent its debt from spiraling out of control.
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With the balance-of-payments crisis of the 219s, the public sector was slimmed down and new government jobs all but disappeared.
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Furthermore, the U.S. derives about $85 billion from licensing of intellectual property rights to other countries, improving our global balance of payments.
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The International Monetary Fund has demanded the cap be repealed as a condition for Kenya to access its balance of payments support.
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There has not been a big movement in the Chinese exchange rate and very little action on the Chinese balance of payments.
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Pakistan is facing a worsening balance-of-payments crisis and is in talks with the International Monetary Fund for a bailout package.
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The tens of billions of dollars of income earned in America by India's big technology firms is crucial for its balance of payments.
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The sales in October were mainly of short-term bonds, the Bank of Italy said on Thursday in its balance of payments release.
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Progress on both those fronts would reduce the need for domestic bank financing and the impact on balance of payments, the bank said.
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But Khan's government, like many of its predecessors, has been forced to turn to the IMF to prevent a balance-of-payments crisis.
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SARB's balance of payments unit head Piet Swart said the higher inflows could be attributed to a more positive investor environment in 2018.
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Slowing global growth, the government's loose monetary and expansionary fiscal policies, and a balance of payments challenge have also weighed on the rupee.
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Siluanov said there was no budgetary need to enter foreign markets again, as its current balance of payments was in a good position.
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Yet the International Monetary Fund has demanded the cap be repealed as a condition for Kenya to access its balance of payments support.
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Carney said the fall in sterling should help ease the balance of payments shortfall but the pace of investment would also be important.
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This is a bit tricky to answer, because the methods corporations use to shift their profits abroad also distort balance of payments statistics.
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Egypt also allowed its currency to weaken sharply and implemented a value-added tax to reduce its balance of payments and budget deficits.
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HSBC analysts said the $3473 billion that the market could initially receive was "not large" in the context of China's balance of payments.
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The country is battling to stave off balance of payments pressures due to a dwindling foreign currency reserve and a widening current account deficit.
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He also warned the outlook for balance of payments data is clouded by trade tensions, which can hurt Indonesian exports and halt foreign inflows.
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Carney said the fall in sterling should help to ease the balance of payments shortfall although the pace of investment would also be important.
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This should help to procure ongoing multilateral and bilateral debt, in turn, lessening the risks of a fiscal and/or balance of payments crisis.
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The overall balance of payments registered a deficit of $2.06 billion during the quarter, the second quarter of the fiscal year beginning in July.
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China was seeing more cross-border capital flows with larger impacts on the balance of payments, the statistics bureau said in an online statement.
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The current rate of the rouble corresponds to the balance of payments and the oil price, RIA news agency quoted the official as saying.
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Rising interest rates and higher borrowing by the island nation facing a balance-of-payments crisis have also weighed on investor appetite, dealers said.
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It kept its outlook on the rating "stable," saying the flexible $720 billion economy and strong fiscal track record offset the balance-of-payments pressures.
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The political shock will complicate Turkey's fragile balance of payments picture as its $3.073 billion-plus annual deficit requires a steady inflow of foreign money.
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Higher market interest rates and higher borrowing by the island nation facing a balance-of-payments crisis have also weighed on investor appetite, dealers said.
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The bank is due to publish data on balance of payments, including current account and capital outflows, for the third quarter at around 1300 GMT.
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But the biggest contribution to the improvement in the government's budget and the balance of payments position has come from rising oil prices (tmsnrt.rs/22017rgRG227d).
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Rwanda is facing rising balance of payments pressures due to the depressed commodity price cycle, which has affected the value of its metal minerals exports.
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That means they will no longer send money back to their families, strengthening Saudi Arabia's balance of payments but reducing incomes in their home countries.
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Unlike countries such as Mexico or Turkey, it has a balance of payments surplus, making it less vulnerable to the rise in global borrowing costs.
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The precautionary facility was put in place two years ago to cushion any unforeseen external shocks that could put pressure on Kenya's balance of payments.
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The big picture: Whatever coalition government forms will have to confront a brewing balance-of-payments emergency, not unlike those in 1999, 2008 and 2013.
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According to the most recent official balance of payments data, Germany's external current account deficit rose to the highest level on record in March 85033.
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Jonsson also said the Atlantic economy's current account surplus and strong balance of payments allowed for a rate cut without weakening the Icelandic krona currency.
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With its debt-to-GDP ratio already at 140%, Lebanon needs to plug a widening balance of payments deficit and precariously low foreign exchange reserves.
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"We expect the balance of payments to be in surplus in 2016/17 but with downside risks," said Abhishek Upadyay, economist at ICICI Securities Primary Dealership.
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"Macro economic policies will focus more on employment, income growth and international balance of payments," said Tang Jianwei, senior economist at Bank of Communications in Shanghai.
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Industry Minister Djamila Tamazirt told reporters the quota reductions were "transitional measures to adjust the balance of payments" and correct incentives aimed at the automotive sector.
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The Precautionary Liquidity Line (PLL) is meant for countries with relatively good economic policies that face balance of payments needs because of issues beyond their control.
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The IMF on Friday urged Sri Lanka to take steps to reduce its fiscal deficit and raise tax revenues to help improve its balance of payments.
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Meanwhile, the balance of payments was at a surplus of $8.5 billion compared with a deficit of $900 million a year ago, the RBI data showed.
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The government has in recent months devalued the rupee, imposed tariffs on imported goods and sought to boost exports to reduce growing balance of payments pressures.
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Pakistan is seeking its 13th bailout since the late 1980s to deal with a current account deficit that threatens to trigger a balance of payments crisis.
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And by reducing the need to import carbon-burning fossil fuels, solar power helps the planet as well as the balance of payments in such countries.
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Fitch expects balance of payments pressures to ease in 2H17, in line with the 19% narrowing of the trade deficit in April relative to April 2016.
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Another Fed rate hike could cause the peso to weaken, and have "collateral impact on the balance of payments," said central bank deputy governor Diwa Guinigundo.
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Iceland's improved external resilience increases Fitch's confidence that capital controls liberalisation will not lead to excessive pressure on the exchange rate and the balance of payments.
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In particular, standard international investment position and balance of payments data are unavailable, and there is less information on the sovereign balance sheet than in peers.
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It does not make sense to suffer through years of recession and balance of payments problems when oil prices slump, if the government can sell assets.
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Within the zero-sum economy of the eurozone, Germany has enjoyed huge balance-of-payments surpluses, selling machine tools and cars to consumers around the Continent.
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This has widened India's current account deficit and pushed its balance of payments into the red in April-June for the first time in six quarters.
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Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has said a vote to leave the bloc would test the "kindness of strangers" who cover Britain's balance of payments shortfall.
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The South Asian nation has recently been battling to stave off balance of payments pressures due to dwindling foreign currency reserves and a widening current account deficit.
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The gap in the balance of payments was $1.98 billion in the second quarter, compared with a $2.42 billion surplus in the previous three months, BI said.
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Kenya's continued compliance with its IMF stand-by arrangement, which would make up to USD1.5 billion available in the event of a negative balance of payments shock.
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Data showed Brazil's balance of payments position with the rest of the world deteriorated sharply in July, as the current account deficit unexpectedly ballooned to $3.3823 billion.
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Financial firm EFG Hermes, which could benefit from handling an inflow of foreign investment if the IMF loan stabilises Egypt's struggling balance of payments, rocketed 10.7 percent.
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Last month, rating agency Moody's affirmed Ecuador's B3 rating, saying it expects subdued GDP growth, a gradual decline in fiscal deficits and a steady balance of payments.
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That argument has become less valid as the balance of payments is less solid and you can no longer argue its strength is fully offsetting internal leverage.
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Rupee has been under pressure since early this year after the central bank stopped defending the currency while the island nation faces a balance of payments crisis.
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Moody's downgraded PNG's credit rating to B2 in April last year, reflecting balance of payments pressures that have been compounded by the slump in global commodity prices.
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Alternatively, the president can impose tariffs of up to 15 percent for 150 days to deal with balance of payments deficits, under the Trade Act of 1974.
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Unlike the years after Black Wednesday, when Britain's current account deficit was almost eliminated in 3753, the country's broader balance of payments position has deteriorated since 2008.
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Inflows could also help bolster China's balance of payments, as some analysts fear the country is slipping dangerously towards twin deficits in its fiscal and current accounts.
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A balance of payments perspective, like other perspectives, points to a tax cut that, surprise, cut taxes on corporations, but had few real consequences for the economy.
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Inflows could also help bolster China's balance of payments, as some analysts fear the country is slipping dangerously toward twin deficits in its fiscal and current accounts.
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Finance minister George Osborne said in parliament on Wednesday that a vote to leave could prompt a balance of payments crisis and problems for Britain's banking sector.
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The kingdom is also forecast to run a deficit on the current account of its international balance of payments equivalent to 14 percent of GDP in 2016.
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Before this week's conference, Khan said that Pakistan, which is facing an acute balance of payments crisis, was "desperate" for Saudi loans to shore up the economy.
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Analysts expect a balance of payments surplus of nearly $15 billion for the full fiscal year ending in March, and a similar surplus in the coming fiscal year.
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The country is battling to stave off balance of payments pressures due to dwindling foreign currency reserves and a widening current account deficit in the $300 billion economy.
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Rising U.S. interest rates, capital outflows from emerging markets and India's weakening balance of payments and current account deficit are also expected to make the central bank act.
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The agreement comes as debt-laden Sri Lanka faces a looming balance of payments crisis due to heavy foreign outflows from government securities and high external debt repayments.
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Preliminary balance of payments data published by the central bank on Monday showed the current account surplus increasing to $65.8 billion in 2015 from $20153 billion in 2014.
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This, together with a levelling off of the economic slowdown in China (which buys 84% of them) has helped the country recover from a balance-of-payments crisis.
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And now the ambitions of the new government under Imran Khan, who at least acknowledges his country's problems (see Briefing), are thwarted by a balance-of-payments crisis.
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Pakistan has said it will hold talks with the IMF and friendly countries during the annual meetings for financial help to avert a looming balance of payments crisis.
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Higher market interest rates and higher borrowing by the island nation facing a balance-of-payments crisis have also weighed on investor appetite for risky assets, dealers said.
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Exchange rate flexibility provides another buffer from oil, cushioning budget revenues and bolstering the balance of payments by suppressing import demand (at the cost of lower living standards).
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Soros said the European Financial Stabilization Mechanism (EFSF) and the Balance of Payments Assistance Facility currently contain $68 billion (€60 billion) of unused funding that Europe should disperse.
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It changed course in 1991 when a balance-of-payments crisis forced the government to loosen its controls on industry and reduce barriers to imports, among other things.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's balance of payments shortfall grew in the last few months of 2018, exacerbated by disappointing trade numbers as the world economy slowed and Brexit neared.
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The balance of payments not only includes trade of goods and services, but also the money flowing in and out of the country in the form of investments.
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After the apparent devaluation, the bank put out a statement backing a weaker currency, saying it would help ease balance of payments pressures in Pakistan's $300 billion economy.
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The balance of payments surplus in January-March was $3.3 billion, compared to a surplus of $4.1 billion in October-December, according to the Reserve Bank of India.
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Weekly data on sight deposits at the Swiss National Bank due at 0800 GMT Second-quarter balance of payments data due at 0700 GMT Reporting by Zurich newsroom
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The government has kept quiet about fundamental economic indicators including economic growth and balance of payments amid an increasingly dire panorama of swelling supermarket lines and worsening shortages.
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Kadagidze said that the balance of payments did not have an effect on the exchange rate as currency inflows to and from the country were balanced, and imports reduced.
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JAKARTA, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Indonesia's current account deficit widened in the second quarter, sending the overall balance of payments into deficit, data from the central bank showed on Friday.
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The yen strengthened sharply this year, on disappointment over the Bank of Japan's policy, improving Japan's balance of payments and safe-haven buying at a time of financial stress.
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The two-year precautionary facility, set to expire next month, was put in place in case of unforeseen external shocks that could put pressure on Kenya's balance of payments.
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The bank said it was concerned after donors suspended financial assistance to the country as this would have a negative impact on the state's budget and balance of payments.
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reached agreement with the Sri Lankan government for a $1.5 billion bailout to help the island nation avert a balance of payments crisis.
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Swiss balance of payments data published on Friday showed a net acquisition of reserve assets by the SNB of 2.281 billion francs during the first three months of 2019.
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In November, Pakistan extended talks with the International Monetary Fund as it seeks its 13th bailout since the late 1980s to deal with a looming balance of payments crisis.
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"We have quite a comfortable balance of payments as well as monetary policy that I think is supportive enough for growth without creating a pressure (on) inflation," she said.
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"The balance of payments surplus is expected to benefit from renewed inflows given the reformist credentials of the key economic appointments," J.P. Morgan said in a note on Thursday.
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It also revised its estimate for the country's balance of payments position this year to a surplus of $3.7 billion compared with a previous forecast of $3.5 billion deficit.
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It was the least they could do, given that Pakistan is currently relying on handouts from Saudi Arabia and the UAE to fend off a balance-of-payments crisis.
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There was a $2.4 billion surplus in the balance of payments of Southeast Asia's largest economy in the first quarter, compared with $5.4 billion surplus in previous three months.
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Allen Sandeep, head of research at Naeem Brokerage, said the higher inflows were also due to increased carry trade appetite for Egyptian treasury securities and improving balance of payments.
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The primary balance of payments, or the difference between revenues and expenditures prior to interest debt payments, is a key gauge of a country's capacity to honor its debt.
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The uncertainty about Britain's economic prospects would raise the risk that the country would struggle to finance its large balance of payments shortfall, the OECD said in a report.
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With one of the biggest balance of payments deficits in the developed world of around 6 percent of annual economic output, Britain needs that capital to keep coming in.
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So one important piece of any attempt to assess the results so far involves looking at the balance of payments changes since the lower tax rate went into effect.
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In that case the balance of payments statistics show a big drop in net direct investment abroad, because the parent firm is reducing its apparent stake in the subsidiary.
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China's foreign exchange regulator said in a statement on its website that it would keep the nation's forex reserves and international balance of payments "balanced and stable" in 2018.
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With the country unable to borrow on international markets after a record 2002 default, dwindling reserves during the Fernandez administration raised the specter of a balance-of-payments crisis.
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Lebanon has some of the world's worst debt and balance-of-payments ratios and recently spent more than nine months without a government it needed to enact long-overdue reforms.
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The board will continue to carefully monitor the behavior of inflation and projections of economic activity, as well as the international situation and the behavior of the balance of payments.
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Lebanon's foreign currency reserves fell last year to around $35 billion, strained by a slowdown in deposits, a negative balance of payments and political paralysis, which weighed on investor confidence.
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The new government is trying to speed up procedures for foreign direct investment and liberalising foreign exchange market to attract more dollar inflows to face a balance-of-payments crisis.
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Wickremesinghe's government, which took office in August 2015, faced a debt and balance-of-payments crisis this year, until the International Monetary Fund approved a $1.5 billion loan in May.
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But it cautioned that the estimates were only approximations and could change significantly once full balance-of-payments data is released, typically three months after the end of each quarter.
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But the IMF last month warned that some of the macroeconomic gains made since the 2013 balance of payments crisis were beginning to erode, posing a risk to economic outlook.
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Remember, even in China, the balance of payments has to balance — the sum of current and capital accounts must be equal to zero (with adjustments and statistical errors, of course).
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The balance of payments pressures have led to a structural depreciation of the Rwandan franc (RWF), exacerbated by the strengthening USD and slowing capital flows to frontier emerging market economies.
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The balance of payments, representing all transactions with foreign counterparts, posted a smaller deficit of $46 million in the third quarter, compared with $2 billion in the previous three months.
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Rupee has been under pressure since early this year after the central bank stopped defending the currency at a time when the island nation faces a balance of payments crisis.
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At 3.9% of economic output, Britain's balance of payments deficit in 2018 was the largest among Group of 20 countries apart from Argentina, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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The balance of payments, representing all transactions with foreign counterparts, swung to a $4.3 billion surplus in the fourth quarter, compared with $46 million deficit in the previous three months.
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Official data covering economic Britain's output for the third quarter, as well as new data on its balance of payments and the household savings ratio, are due at 0930 GMT.
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The IMF agreed to lend Mongolia $440m to help it weather a balance-of-payments crisis, paving the way for further loans from the Asian Development Bank, Japan and South Korea.
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The country faces heavy amortization payments next year, especially for a country recovering from a balance of payments crisis, and any easing of that burden will help the sovereign, Morden said.
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When it comes to 2017 foreign borrowing plans, the ministry will look at Russia's balance of payments and possibilities to borrow on the domestic market before making a decision, Siluanov said.
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Furthermore, the fall in the value of the pound is widely seen as a sign of Britain's diminished attractiveness as an investment destination, which could aggravate its balance of payments problem.
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Improved Policy Coherence and Credibility: Sri Lanka's three-year extended fund facility with the IMF has improved policy coherence and credibility and has eased some near-term balance of payments pressure.
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Explaining its decision, Moody's notes Mozambique's "deteriorating balance of payments position and reduced capacity for the government to service its outstanding debt", and pours doubt on the plan to rescue EMATUM.
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This didn't have to happen; with more than $360 billion in foreign currency reserves, Brazil is not constrained by the balance of payments, and therefore could recover with expansionary macroeconomic policies.
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The rupee has been under pressure since early this year after the central bank stopped defending the currency at a time when the island nation faces a balance of payments crisis.
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It was as integral to the postwar order as the I.M.F., which was supposed to provide a safety net for nations having balance of payments trouble, or for that matter NATO.
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Now Maithripala Sirisena's government, faced with falling foreign reserves, a balance of payments crunch and few, if any, alternative investors, is heading back into Beijing's embrace, albeit on better terms than before.
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"If you do not have indigenous coal resources, that has huge implications for your balance of payments," says Eric Wanless of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a clean-energy research outfit in America.
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The overall balance of payments registered a surplus of $13.71 billion, including $12.2 billion that were realised from November through June, following the flotation of the currency, a central bank statement said.
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The euro may also benefit against the dollar as the eurozone has a balance of payments surplus, and in times of trade war surplus currencies tend to do reasonably well, Rai said.
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In addition, balance of payments pressures are likely to remain in check due to moderate current account deficits, access to external financing, and the discontinuation of using reserves for sovereign debt payments.
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The euro may also benefit against the dollar as the eurozone has a balance of payments surplus, and "in times of trade war surplus currencies tend to do reasonably well," Rai said.
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The euro zone has a balance of payments surplus of 3.7 percent of gross domestic product, meaning the region already has a natural annual net inflow of more than 300 billion euros.
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A three-year IMF programme that began in June has helped to ease balance-of-payments problems, but long-standing weaknesses in public finances will persist without sustained commitment from the authorities .
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It is Khan's second visit to Saudi Arabia in just over a month, but he has not succeeded in securing significant financial assistance to stave off a looming balance of payments crisis.
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Those falls have raised uncomfortable questions about Turkey's balance of payments and its ability to roll over its foreign loans - and how and from whom it would seek emergency reserves if necessary.
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Following a balance of payments crisis in 2013, improving security and vast infrastructure investment by China have spurred Pakistan's growth to above 5 percent for the first time in nearly a decade.
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Colombia, Argentina and Mexico are among the most vulnerable countries, they said, thanks to a combination of wide balance of payments deficits, exposure to global economic factors and relatively weak domestic fundamentals.
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Bank of England Governor Mark Carney has previously said that Britain remains dependent on the "kindness of strangers" because of its large balance of payments deficit that is funded by foreign investors.
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In UK balance of payments data, debt securities investment abroad has averaged close to zero over the past two years, said Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, managing director for global asset allocation at JP Morgan.
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And looking at those changes in the balance of payments also offers a good way to debunk some of the fallacies that all too often creep in when we discuss these issues.
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As noted earlier, in the end every country's balance of payments must always be zero; whatever deficit or surplus exists in the current account must be offset by a flow of capital.
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Undoubtedly, Iran avoided a balance of payments crisis in 2013 by entering into nuclear negotiations, and from 2014-2016, saw positive changes in its economy because of engagement and the nuclear deal.
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"They tend to live more off tourism rather than commodity exports and their massive remittances help the balance of payments," said Henry Stipp, manager of the Columbia Threadneedle Emerging Market Bond Fund.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has long relied on foreigners to fund a big deficit in its balance of payments, a risk that has been heightened by the country's decision to leave the European Union.
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TO CURRENT BALANCE OF PAYMENTS AND TO TAX REVENUE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO WE'RE TRYING TO MOVE THE NEEDLE BY 1% TO MAKE THE UNITED STATES MORE COMPETITIVE IN THE WORLD.
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Mongolian government officials are due to hold talks on Friday with international partners, including the International Monetary Fund and the Development Bank of China, to discuss Mongolia's currency and balance of payments crisis.
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ATHENS, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Greece's current account deficit widened in October compared to the same month a year ago, according to balance of payments figures released by the Bank of Greece on Thursday.
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IN THE spring of 2100, Indian officials desperate to fend off a balance-of-payments crunch secretly airlifted 21.5 tonnes of gold confiscated from smugglers into the vaults of UBS, a Swiss bank.
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The IMF's executive board approved the loan over the weekend in a move that is expected help support the reform agenda in the South Asian country hit by a balance-of-payments crisis.
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That would top June's 974.4 billion yen surplus and would be the 25th straight monthly surplus in the balance of payments, helped by income from overseas investments, foreign tourists, and the trade surplus.
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It aims to cut Algeria's import bill by 13.3% to $38.6 billion, and reduce the balance of payments deficit to $8.5 billion from the $16.6 billion forecast for the end of this year.
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It aims to cut Algeria's import bill by 13.3% to $38.6 billion, and reduce the balance of payments deficit to $8.5 billion from the $16.6 billion forecast for the end of this year.
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BAKU, June 22 (Reuters) - Azerbaijan's central bank said on Thursday it had decided to leave key refinancing rate unchanged at 15 percent, citing stronger economic activity and the country's positive balance of payments.
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In case non-euro zone countries of the EU needed financial help, the Commission could use its Balance of Payments facility, for which it can borrow against the collateral of the EU budget.
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The rupee has been under pressure since early this year after the central bank stopped providing support for the currency at a time when the island nation faces a balance of payments crunch.
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"We remain underweight on the pound as we see the balance of payments on a deteriorating trend," said Alessio de Longis, portfolio manager at Oppenheimer Funds, which manages $235 billion in global assets.
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But it badly needs U.S. support, both in handling its severe balance of payments problems and in dealing with its nuclear armed neighbor India after the two came close to war last year.
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S&P Global Ratings said the military deployment raised risks for the lira and Turkey's balance of payments, which has improved markedly since a currency crisis last year tipped its economy into recession.
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MILAN, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Foreign holdings of Italian government bonds fell by a net 5.4 billion euros ($6.2 billion) in November, the Bank of Italy said in its balance of payments publication on Friday.
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In contrast, Saudi Arabia needs prices above $22020 and perhaps over $270 to shore up its government finances, pay for an expensive economic transformation, and stem the deterioration in its own balance of payments.
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The loan is designed to help Sri Lanka avoid a balance-of-payments crisis as occurred at the end of the civil war in 2009 – a crisis that required a $2.6 billion IMF bailout.
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"So ostensibly bond and equity investors may decide to reduce exposure, especially as the country is under severe balance of payments stress and this is another set of problems to worry about," he said.
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Current account, the broadest measure of a country's foreign trade in both goods and services, is part of the balance of payments, which records all of its transactions with the rest of the world.
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"With fiscal policy unlikely to tighten, monetary policy will have to do the heavy lifting to both re-anchor inflation and contain balance of payments risks," Capital Economics said in a note to investors.
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Meanwhile, data showed that Britain's balance of payments shortfall got bigger in the last few months of 2018, hurt in part by a disappointing trade performance as the world economy slowed and Brexit neared.
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The Swiss National Bank made net foreign currency purchases of 23.3 billion Swiss francs ($23.86 billion) in the three months to the end of June, SNB data on the Swiss balance of payments showed.
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The Central Bank of Egypt responded to the strain on the balance of payments by devaluing the currency in mid-March by 14% against the US dollar, and further exchange-rate weakness is likely.
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The IMF said last week it had reached a staff-level agreement with Sri Lankan authorities for a $1.5 billion, three-year loan to help the island nation avert a balance of payments crisis.
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Importantly for balance of payments, the result of more U.S. production is a sharp decline in imports, which have fallen by 42 percent in real dollars since 2005, while exports are up 318 percent.
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It aims to bring down Algeria's imports bill by 13.3% to $38.6 billion, and reduce the balance of payments deficit to $8.5 billion from the $16.6 billion forecast for the end of this year.
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On Friday, the IMF said it had reached a staff-level agreement with Sri Lankan authorities for a $1.5 billion, three-year loan to help the island nation avert a balance of payments crisis.
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With foreign reserves dwindling, some analysts say Pakistan may need an International Monetary Fund bailout to avert a balance of payments crisis similar to one it suffered in 2013, when it sought IMF help.
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Brad Setser has a really interesting post on Puerto Rico's balance of payments – unlike states, the territory keeps track of exports and imports both to the U.S. mainland and the rest of the world.
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But the honeymoon has come to an end as the economy runs into headwinds with the fiscal deficit ballooning to about 7% of gross domestic product and a balance of payments crisis is looming.
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RISKS S&P Global Ratings said the military deployment raised risks for the lira and Turkey's balance of payments, which has improved markedly since a currency crisis last year tipped its economy into recession.
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He added however that while banks in Turkey remained in reasonable shape, the country did have a problem with its balance of payments that has occurred because the economy had been allowed to overheat.
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Given its heavy dependence on imports for fuel and other needs, India is concerned rapid inflows or outflows from foreign investors could cause sharp volatility and impact its balance of payments and currency reserves.
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The financial account of South Africa's balance of payments recorded an inflow of capital of 13.2 billion rand, or 1% of GDP, in the second quarter from 24.1 billion rand in the first quarter.
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Balance of payments, which represent the difference between current account and capital account, slipped into a deficit of $4.3 billion in the December quarter from a surplus of $9.4 billion a year ago, data showed.
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The rupee has lost about 35 percent since the first devaluation in December 2017, as officials have sought to bring under control a ballooning current deficit that threatens to trigger a balance of payments crisis.
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The aim was to shore up the balance of payments of the United States and other western economies following the enormous rise in oil prices after the 1973/74 and 1979/20303 oil price shocks.
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Khan was in Beijing seeking financial aid to help end a spiraling balance of payments crisis after securing $6 billion in support from Saudi Arabia and before Pakistan sat down to talks with the IMF.
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An IMF stand-by credit facility for balance of payments support expired last week, complicating Kenya's economic outlook at a time when emerging markets have entered into turmoil as contagion from Turkey and Argentina spreads.
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Nevertheless, Argentina's external liquidity ratio, forecast by Fitch at 54% in 2017, remains low in relation to 'B' rated peers, especially given the country's high commodity dependence and recent episodes of balance of payments pressures.
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The central bank kept interest rates on hold Tuesday, preferring to gauge the impact of recent tightening measures amid government efforts to secure a $1.5 billion IMF loan to avert a balance of payments crisis.
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The board will continue to carefully monitor the behavior of inflation and projections of economic activity and inflation in the country, as well as the behavior of the balance of payments and the international situation.
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Introduced in 2016 to stop banks charging high interest rates, the cap has stifled traditional bank lending and the International Monetary Fund has conditioned Kenya's continued access to balance of payments support on its removal.
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With foreign reserves dwindling, some analysts say Pakistan may need an International Monetary Fund bailout to avert a balance of payments crisis similar to the one it suffered in 2013, when it sought IMF help.
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Australia will also release its fourth-quarter balance of payments on Tuesday, which Moody's Analytics expects to have narrowed to A$16.4 billion ($11.7 billion) from A$18.1 billion ($12.9 billion) in the third-quarter.
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MILANO, July 19 (Reuters) - Foreign holdings of Italian government bonds shrunk by a net 5.6 billion euros ($6.30 billion) in May, after rising in the two previous months, balance of payments data showed on Friday.
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President Trump is not doing anything so drastic; he just wants to negotiate fair trade deals for America with people who are abusing free trade by rejecting the rules of symmetric balance-of-payments adjustment.
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The lira has come under renewed pressure over concerns about Turkey's balance of payments, its ability to service its foreign debt, and calls from President Tayyip Erdogan for its central bank to cut interest rates.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Moody's cut Turkey's sovereign credit rating deeper into "junk" territory on Friday, saying the risk of a balance of payments crisis continued to rise, and with it the risk of a government default.
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Other seminal events—the loss of Britain's empire in the post-war years, or its balance-of-payments crisis and IMF bail-out in 1976—also seem to have had no impact on the trend.
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"Further tightening of monetary policy is required to curb excessive demand in order to pre-empt the escalation of inflationary pressures and to support the balance of payments," the central bank said in a statement.
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Khan, who was elected prime minister in July, is in Saudi Arabia for the second time this month seeking to shore up financial aid as the country reels from a looming balance of payments crisis.
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"IMF member countries will be able to record as official reserves their holdings of RMB−denominated external assets that are readily available for meeting balance of payments financing needs," the Fund said in a statement.
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I've been reading a recent Rockefeller Institute report on states' federal "balance of payments" — the difference for each state between what the federal government spends in that state and what it gets back in revenue.
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Trump threatens tariffs against Mexico and an end to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with both countries, only because he misunderstands that trade and our "balance of payments" falls far short of neighborliness.
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British companies cut their investment in the second quarter of 183, with Britain's exit from the EU less than a year away, and the country's balance of payments shortfall grew more than expected, data showed.
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The Bank of Italy data, which were broadly in line with balance of payments statistics published earlier this month, showed foreign holdings of Italian government bonds fell by 57.8 billion euros between May and June.
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"The downgrade reflects our expectation that the extreme volatility of the Turkish lira and the resulting projected sharp balance of payments adjustment will undermine Turkey's economy, " S&P Global Ratings said in a statement Friday.
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No clear data for capital outflows exist but a measure from China's balance of payments called errors and omissions points to $88 billion leaving in the first three months of this year, the most on record.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Turkey's currency troubles are fuelling worries about a full-blown balance of payments crisis, and as these graphics show, whichever way you look at it, the country's foreign currency reserves don't provide much protection.
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Before the market opened, the IMF said it had reached a staff-level agreement with Sri Lankan authorities for a $1.5 billion, three-year loan to help the island nation avert a balance of payments crisis.
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The Fund agreed the three-year rescue package last year - its 13th bailout program for Pakistan since the late 1980s - as the South Asian country of 208 million people wrestles with a balance-of-payments crisis.
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The United States is increasingly both a major producer and consumer of petroleum, so the main impact of changing prices is no longer felt through the external balance of payments but the internal distribution of income.
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The improving balance of payments represents a stark contrast with the situation in 2014, when central bank reserves shrank by $107.5 billion as Russia grappled both with plunging export revenues and a surge in capital flight.
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South Africa, another big emerging market, has plunged into political chaos, leaving it on the brink of joining Russia as a junk-rated credit but with the added drawback of a large balance of payments deficit.
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Sri Lanka agreed a $1.5 billion bailout with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) last month to help address the balance of payments crisis caused by big foreign outflows from government securities and high external debt repayments.
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Kenyan officials have played down the significance of the expiry of the deal, which was agreed in 2016 to help cushion the economy in case of unforeseen external shocks that could upset the balance of payments.
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The ONS said it was still considering whether to release data on the services sector alongside the construction, industrial production and trade figures or whether to keep it on the same day as balance of payments.
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It is expected Pakistan will need a bigger sum this year to avoid a balance of payments crisis and stabilise a wobbly economy hurt by a shortage of dollars plus ballooning current account and fiscal deficits.
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Moody's Investors Service on Monday changed Sri Lanka's outlook to negative from stable, citing further weakening in some fiscal metrics in an environment of subdued GDP growth, which could lead to renewed balance of payments pressure.
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Trade analysts said Afghanistan was a key export market and important hub with central Asia for Pakistan, which faces bleak economic headwinds, including a looming balance of payments crisis likely to be worsened by regional turmoil.
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With foreign reserves dwindling, some analysts say Pakistan may need an International Monetary Fund bailout to avert a balance of payments crisis akin to the one it suffered in 2013, when it also sought IMF help.
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While they are sometimes applauded as a short-term stabilization tool helping to adjust a country's balance of payments imbalance, they risk deterring often much-needed foreign capital if left in place for a protracted time.
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"The main reason for Turkey's downgrade was our expectation that the extreme volatility of the Turkish lira and the resulting projected sharp balance of payments adjustment will undermine Turkey's economy," S&P said in the report.
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Earlier, the BoE said the UK is becoming more vulnerable to the risk that foreign investors could withdraw their money from Britain, which runs the biggest balance-of-payments gap in any Group of Seven country.
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However, Pakistan's central bank appears more nervous as oil prices climb, raising its main policy rate by 50 basis point to 6.5 percent on Friday and warning the "the balance-of-payments picture...has further deteriorated".
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Speaking to journalists after figures showed a deterioration in Brazil's balance of payments position with the rest of the world in October, the bank's head of statistics Fernando Rocha said FDI this month up to Nov.
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Data frequency from the BCEAO is only annual and comes with a 12-month lag, and Eaton Vance researchers have suggested the need for improved transparency and frequency of balance of payments reporting for WAEMU nations.
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Coomaraswamy, a Sri Lankan Tamil, joined the central bank in 1974 and become governor in 2016, helping steer the economy as it was hit by flooding and droughts and twin debt and balance of payments crises.
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The USMCA requires the three countries to disclose monthly data on international reserve balances and intervention in foreign exchange markets, along with quarterly balance-of-payments data and other public reporting to the International Monetary Fund.
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The SEZ is one of 45 projects the government plans to help lift growth at a time when public finances have deteriorated and Colombo is seeking an emergency IMF loan to avert a balance-of-payments problem.
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The IMF has preconditioned the extension of the stand-by credit, used for balance of payments support, on a number of measures, including the repeal of a cap on commercial lending rates which was imposed in 2016.
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Dominic Bunning, a currency strategist at HSBC, said the debate raised the risk of a more chaotic outcome which may deter foreign investors that Britain relies on to fund a big deficit in its balance of payments.
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The risk is that the balance of payments might go into deficit, should capital flows turn negative at the same time as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government throws fiscal caution to the winds before elections next year.
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"Looking ahead, economic growth and balance of payments pressures are likely to remain major challenges for the authorities in the near term," Mohammed El Qorchi, the head of the IMF's fact-finding mission, said in a statement.
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The drain on the central bank's foreign currency buffers raises uncomfortable questions about Turkey's balance of payments and its ability to roll over foreign loans - and how and from whom it would seek emergency reserves if necessary.
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The International Monetary Fund last week said it had reached a staff-level agreement with Sri Lankan authorities for a $1.5 billion, three-year loan that would help the island nation avert a balance of payments crisis.
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The renewed selling pressure stems from concerns about Turkey's balance of payments, its ability to service its foreign debt, and repeated calls by Erdogan, who has described himself as an "enemy of interest rates", for cheaper credit.
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Years of foreign debt accumulation and rising balance of payments gaps meet a sudden evaporation of domestic and investor confidence that sends the currency sliding, inflation soaring and forces central bank interest rates higher to control it.
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"Even if [Brent] prices fall further to $22019-$270 a barrel, immediate balance of payments strains are unlikely to emerge," Capital Economics said in a report this week about the impact of the slump on Gulf countries.
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ISTANBUL, June 14 (Reuters) - Moody's cut Turkey's sovereign credit rating deeper into "junk" territory on Friday, saying the risk of a balance of payments crisis continued to rise, and with it the risk of a government default.
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The IMF agreed to a three-year rescue package last year — its 13th bailout program for Pakistan since the late 1980s — as the South Asian country of 208 million people wrestles with a balance-of-payments crisis.
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Lowcock said he had discussed the balance of payments deficit and the need to pay Yemeni salaries and pensions with officials from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the United States at weekend talks in Riyadh.
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The Fund agreed to a three-year rescue package last year — its 13th bailout program for Pakistan since the late 1980s — as the South Asian country of 208 million people wrestles with a balance-of-payments crisis.
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The balance of payments is seen posting a surplus of $3 billion next year from $4.8 billion in 2019, while gross international reserves could end 2020 at $86 billion from $85 billion at the end of 2019.
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In a statement, Bank Indonesia also said it expected the country to post a relatively large surplus in its balance of payments this year due to year-to-date inflows, but it is monitoring risks of capital reversal.
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While official data also showed the economy grew slightly faster than previously thought, campaigners on both sides of the EU debate seized on the much bigger than expected gap in the balance of payments to push their views.
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An IMF programme would provide balance of payments support and unlock other sources of external financing, easing the risks from falling export earnings as lower copper prices and falling copper production have pushed the current account into deficit.
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The deeply indebted country inked an agreement for a $1.5 billion bailout, announced Friday, as it faced heavy fund outflows and overseas debt payments amid declining foreign-exchange reserves, which could have caused a balance of payments crisis.
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The International Monetary Fund executive board approved a three-year, $6 billion loan package for Pakistan on Wednesday to rein in mounting debts and stave off a looming balance of payments crisis, in exchange for tough austerity measures.
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The fall the pound is not all bad news for Britain's economy and Friday's data showed it was helping to ease one of its biggest vulnerabilities — its wide balance of payments deficit with the rest of the world.
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"We think FX markets are less fazed by the bill; whether it will induce a material shift in investment and the balance of payments remains unclear," said Mazen Issa, senior FX strategist at TD Securities in New York.
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The announcement of a detailed, credible policy for lifting capital controls, with implementation contingent on avoiding excessive balance-of-payments pressures, was an important driver of our upgrade of Iceland's sovereign rating to BBB+/Stable in July 2530.
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For Southeast Asia, moderating export growth, quickening inflation, net capital outflows and a worsening balance of payments have dimmed the outlook, with growth this year projected to slow to 5.1 percent from the July forecast of 5.2 percent.
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For a country like Brazil, the binding constraint on any stimulus program is the balance of payments: they must have enough foreign exchange reserves to be able to pay for rising imports as the economy returns to growth.
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They will exacerbate the country's balance of payments crisis, and therefore feed the spiral of inflation (600 percent over the past year) and depreciation of the currency (on the black market) that has been accelerating since late 2012.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan expects to obtain fresh Chinese loans worth $1-2 billion to help it avert a balance of payments crisis, Pakistani government sources said, in another sign of Islamabad's growing reliance on Beijing for financial support.
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Earlier this year, some government officials said they want to change the way state energy firm Pertamina's overseas oil production is reported in the balance of payments, so it would be considered incoming foreign exchange instead of imports.
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"It should be stressed that Switzerland does not in any way engage in manipulation of its currency to prevent adjustments to the balance of payments or gain unjustified competitive advantage," the Swiss finance ministry said in a statement.
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The ONS said a surge in goods exports helped Britain's balance of payments deficit narrow to 15.860 billion pounds ($20.68 billion)in the third quarter from 24.152 billion pounds in the second quarter, roughly in line with expectations.
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"The financial support will help the country meet an urgent need for balance of payments caused by the earthquake of April 16," said Luca Ricci, head of the IMF mission to Ecuador, in a conference call on Friday.
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The currency has risen 5 percent so far this year, giving the island's stock market a boost, but knocking its fourth-quarter balance of payments to a five-year low and hammering its insurers, which are heavily invested overseas.
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"The pressures from the balance of payments in the UK continues to improve...and in terms of the negotiations we think that by 12 months' time the Brexit discussions will have shifted to a transitional trade deal," Gallo said.
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Pakistan is on the brink of signing up for it 13th International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout since the late 1980s in a bid to stave off a balance of payments crisis and ease ballooning current account and fiscal deficits.
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Sri Lanka is still recovering from a debt and balance-of-payments crisis last year, but it has adopted economic reforms in line with conditions set by the International Monetary Fund for extending a $1.5-billion three-year loan.
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Dar was credited with steering Pakistan's economy to a sounder footing following a 2013 balance of payments crisis but over the past year those economic gains have begun to erode, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and analysts.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Japan will lend Sri Lanka more than $3.5 billion, mostly to finance development, Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said on Thursday, as the island nation tries to reduce its debt costs and avert a balance of payments crisis.
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ISLAMABAD, June 15 (Reuters) - Pakistan will receive $3.4 billion in budgetary support from the Asian Development Bank (ABD), the de facto finance minister said on Saturday, as the government seeks help to overcome a ballooning balance of payments crisis.
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This "raises the risk that the likes of Saudi Arabia row back on previous commitments, potentially putting renewed pressure on the balance of payments position," the firm warned, something that could trigger a fresh sell-off in local markets.
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Sri Lanka could face balance-of-payments pressure due to foreign outflows from government securities, a government document showed last month, even as the island nation was in the process of raising up to $2.5 billion from foreign borrowing.
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Sri Lanka could face balance-of-payments pressure due to foreign outflows from government securities, a government document showed on Thursday, even as the island-nation is in the process of raising up to $2.5 billion from foreign borrowing.
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Sri Lanka could face balance-of-payments pressure due to foreign outflows from government securities, a government document showed last week, even as the island-nation is in the process of raising up to $2.5 billion from foreign borrowing.
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"Everyone feels disheartened and sad," says Marie Owens Thomsen, chief economist of Indosuez Wealth Management, the private banking arm of Credit Agricole, who fears dark days lie ahead for Britain, including a worsening balance of payments and a recession.
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It is well known that China regularly manipulates its currency for the benefit of its exports, which, at least in part, explains why China has such a positive balance of payments (shown as a negative for the U.S. above).
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Also, $21 billion over three years might not be enough by itself to restore Egypt's balance of payments to health, especially if donors in the Gulf decide to cut back their aid in response to their own budget pressures.
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Sri Lanka could face balance-of-payments pressure due to foreign outflows from government securities, a government document showed last week, even as the island nation was in the process of raising up to $2.5 billion from foreign borrowing.
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The data comes after ratings agency Moody's cut Turkey's sovereign credit rating deeper into "junk" territory on Friday, saying the risk of a balance of payments crisis continued to rise, and with it the risk of a government default.
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The currency has lost more than a third of its value against the dollar since the start of last year amid mounting economic challenges for Pakistan, which is facing slowing growth and a squeeze on its balance of payments.
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Balance of payments records show that 10 of the last 12 major currency crises, dating back to the Mexican peso meltdown of 1994, began when residents started sending money abroad, which was typically two years before the currency collapsed.
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"The tighter financial conditions and weaker exchange rate, associated with high and rising external financing risks, are likely to fuel inflation further and undermine growth, and the risk of a balance of payments crisis continues to rise," it said.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's balance of payments position with the rest of the world deteriorated sharply in July, central bank figures showed on Monday, as the current account deficit unexpectedly ballooned to $9 billion, the biggest July shortfall since 2014.
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Pakistan is on the brink of signing up for its 2.83th International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout since the late 1980s in a bid to stave off a balance of payments crisis and ease ballooning current account and fiscal deficits.
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The IMF agreed to a $6 billion, three-year rescue package last year — its 13th bailout program for Pakistan since the late 1980s — as the South Asian country of 208 million people wrestles with a balance-of-payments crisis.
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A decline in foreign transactions and a drop in foreign currency inflows could further widen Pakistan's large current account deficit, the Achilles heel of an economy that required an IMF bailout in 2013 following a balance of payments crisis.
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Economists expect a balance of payments surplus close to $25-30 billion for 2015/16, as foreign direct investment inflows into the world's fastest growing major economy remain robust, and foreign exchange reserves stood at $361 billion on May 13.
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Prime Minister Imran Khan's administration has been forced to seek what would be Pakistan's 20.6th IMF bailout since the late 1.153s to stabilize an economy that has seen growth plunge while teetering on the verge of a balance of payments crisis.
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Under the Trade Act of 22013 he could impose quotas or a tariff of up to 22015% for up to 274 days against countries with large balance-of-payments surpluses (which modern courts would probably interpret as the current-account surplus).
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According to this view, the deteriorating balance of payments reflects heavy spending on imported materials for the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a string of ambitious transport and energy projects that form part of China's wider Belt and Road Initiative.
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The landlocked North Asian country of three million people goes to the polls on June 26, just a month after securing a $5.5 billion International Monetary Fund-led bailout to lift the economy out of a balance of payments crisis.
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Here are the four concerns: They have to go through a debt restructure, they have to go through an economic restructuring, they have to restructure their capital markets, and they have to keep an eye on the balance of payments.
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In a letter last month to Congo's prime minister, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde proposed that a delegation visit in September but cautioned that balance of payments support would likely require political concessions to break the impasse over Kabila's future.
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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund Executive board approved a three-year, $6 billion loan package for Pakistan on Wednesday to rein in mounting debts and stave off a looming balance of payments crisis, in exchange for tough austerity measures.
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KARACHI/ISLAMABAD, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The Pakistani rupee tumbled on Friday after what appeared to be an effective devaluation by the central bank, which later said a weaker local currency would help the economy grow and contain balance of payments pressures.
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Avoiding a more protracted dispute reduces risks to the balance of payments, government revenues from customs duty, and overall economic activity from reduced Russian oil supply to Belarus's refineries, although we still expect the economy to remain in recession in 2017.
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"Even with the prospect of some fiscal stimulus which has been promised by Johnson, you do have a big cyclical downturn which is (becoming) structural," Dissaux said, noting a widening balance of payments gap, declining investment, and signs of economic contraction.
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India's lurch into a balance of payments deficit in the April-June, as price of oil imports continuing to climb spelt trouble for a rupee already bruised by rising U.S. interest rates and the fall out from U.S. tariff wars.
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Sneyd also said BNP's own STEER positioning indicator shows bets on further sterling weakness are extremely stretched, and that its analysis, even accounting for a large deterioration of Britain's balance of payments, shows fair value for the pound is around $1.35.
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"It would be low in the beginning, and in 2022 it will peak at around $5 billion - not more than that," he said, adding the government does not think it likely that Pakistan will face a balance of payments crisis.
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A senior BoE official said foreign investors in speculative assets had plugged much of the balance of payments shortfall last year, a reliance which left Britain vulnerable at a time of deep uncertainty about how it will leave the European Union.
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A recent slide in the price of oil, which with gas accounts for about 22018 percent of state revenues and 216.8 percent of GDP, has hit growth, the budget, the balance of payments, the manat currency and foreign exchange reserves.
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The only thing is ... we have to coordinate our plans with the central bank to make sure that those inflows do not seriously influence the strengthening (of the rouble), so that they don't affect our assessment of the balance of payments.
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The slide in the price of oil, which with gas accounts for about 75 percent of state revenues and 45 percent of gross domestic product, hit growth, the budget, the balance of payments, the manat currency and foreign exchange reserves.
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Pakistan obtained a $6.7 billion IMF bailout in 2013 and near-identical balance of payments problems pose a major headache for the incoming government of Imran Khan, Pakistan's former cricket hero who is seeking coalition partners to form a government.
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The balance of payments pressure is largely due to imports of machinery and other Chinese goods connected with a $57 billion infrastructure investment by China, part of its planned Belt and Road trade route stretching to Asia, Europe and beyond.
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The rate hike comes as Sri Lankan is in initial talks with the IMF about a loan amid concerns over pressures on its balance of payments, outflows from government bonds, a ballooning fiscal deficit and heavy downward pressure on the rupee.
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The impact of the devaluation on exports and imports, coupled with the surge in foreign fund inflows, has also helped Egypt start to address the chronic trade deficit and balance of payments problems that have plagued the country for a decade.
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A surge in capital flight would put further downward pressure on the yuan, potentially triggering a vicious circle, although most economists see little risk of a serious Latin-American style balance of payments crisis in the world's second-biggest economy.
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The simple truth is that the global balance of payments needs to be balanced — that means it must be equal to zero (adjusted for minor measurement errors) — and there is no American hegemony or unfair advantage in that particular economic concept.
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Brazil's real eased 20.00% after central bank figures showed the country's balance of payments position with the rest of the world deteriorated in October, as the current account deficit widened and investment inflows from abroad failed to cover the shortfall.
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MOSCOW, March 31 (Reuters) - Russia's central bank updated its balance of payments data for 2015 on Thursday, increasing the size of last year's current account surplus to $69.6 billion and upping the net private sector capital outflow to $58.1 billion.
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He can restrict imports if such imports "threaten to impair the national security"; he can impose tariffs "to deal with large and serious United States balance-of-payments deficits"; he can modify tariff rates when foreign governments engage in "unjustifiable" policies.
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Berriel insisted that a "gradual recovery will resume," adding that a flexible exchange rate, healthy balance of payments surplus and almost $400 billion of international reserves will protect Brazil from what is an increasingly uncertain international backdrop for emerging markets.
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It also faces a balance-of-payments crisis after a third of its foreign exchange reserves was depleted within the 15 months to January by the central bank's defence of the rupee currency, pressured by heavy debt piled up under the previous government.
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MUMBAI, March 29 (Reuters) - India's key external parameters weakened in October-December on higher imports and dollar outflows, pushing the current account deficit wider and balance of payments into the red from the previous year, Reserve Bank of India data showed on Friday.
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The departure of Dar, widely credited with navigating Pakistan out of a 2013 balance of payments crisis, comes as the country is seeking to raise in excess of $1 billion on debt markets through a sukuk and a Eurobond in coming months.
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Faced with a looming balance of payments crisis that may force the country to seek a fresh bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), or other lenders, the government had picked Mian to join an 18-member council to advise prime minister Khan.
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"The widening of the CAD on a year-on-year basis was primarily on account of a higher trade deficit brought about by a larger increase in merchandise imports relative to exports," the RBI said in a statement on India's balance of payments.
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The latest move comes just as the less-than-one-month-old government of Prime Minister Imran Khan faces a looming balance of payments crisis that could force it to seek a fresh bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), or other lenders.
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Buy Danish crowns Currency traders are also seeking shelter in less traditional places, with Denmark — among a handful of countries with a triple-A credit rating, and with a large surplus in its balance of payments — seen as providing a safe alternative.
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Sri Lanka is facing a looming balance of payments crisis because of a foreign outflow of about $2 billion from government securities since January last year and is in a debt trap, partly due to heavy infrastructure borrowing by the past government.
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The extended slide in prices of oil, which together with gas account for about 75 percent of state revenues and 45 percent of the gross domestic product, hit growth, the budget, the balance of payments, the manat currency and foreign exchange reserves.
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The rules of the IMF credit line mean Ecuador could get up to $368 million over the course of the loan, according to a Reuters calculation, but the level of access depends on the country's balance of payments needs, according to IMF rules.
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Like so many of its predecessors, Khan's government, which came to power vowing to root out corruption and create millions of jobs, has been forced to turn to the IMF to prevent a balance-of-payments crisis as the money runs out.
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The latest move comes just as the less-than-one-month-old government of Prime Minister Imran Khan faces a looming balance of payments crisis that could force it to seek a fresh bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), or other lenders.
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Under the IMF bailout, signed this month, Pakistan is under heavy pressure to boost its tax revenues to plug a fiscal deficit which has ballooned to around 7% of its gross domestic product, as well as avert a looming balance of payments crisis.
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"For the past year, the Government and Central Bank of Iceland have been lifting these controls through an incremental, measured process that focused on protecting the currency, addressing a balance of payments problem and tempering shocks to the Icelandic economy," Jóhannesson added.
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Better coordination between monetary and fiscal policy, an improved focus on price stability, increased exchange rate flexibility and an effort to reduce distortionary policies (such as programme lending) have delivered signs of improving a historically weak macroeconomic performance and balance of payments position.
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Sanofi will pay Regeneron $462 million representing the balance of payments due under their original deal, which covers the Sanofi share of the immuno-oncology discovery program costs for the last quarter of 2018, and up to $120 million in other development costs.
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That agreement, signed July 22, was one of the first global monetary policy and currency agreements - re-establishing a gold standard for exchange rates, backing away from competitive devaluations and setting up the International Monetary Fund to bridge balance of payments gaps.
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Their agreement, signed July 2.33, was one of the first global monetary policy and currency agreements - re-establishing a gold standard for exchange rates, backing away from competitive devaluations and setting up the International Monetary Fund to bridge balance of payments gaps.
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Their agreement, signed July 22, was one of the first global monetary policy and currency agreements - re-establishing a gold standard for exchange rates, backing away from competitive devaluations and setting up the International Monetary Fund to bridge balance of payments gaps.
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The Bureau of Economic Analysis, which produces our balance of payments statistics, had a very helpful box on the effects of the TCJA in its latest report on international transactions that included a striking chart on the impact on multinational corporations (Figure 2).
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But "9-12" was seen to have seriously dented South Africa's institutional credibility, adding to investor worries about an economy growing at less than one percent, high inflation, a balance of payments hole, weak commodity prices, frequent labour unrest and power shortages.
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"When you don't save and you want to spend and grow, you import surplus savings from abroad and you run these massive balance of payments and trade deficits to attract the foreign capital," he told CNBC Monday at the annual China Development Forum.
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LONDON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Ankara's military push into Syria raises risks for Turkey's currency and balance of payments, S&P Global Ratings said on Wednesday, adding however that this was not expected to have an immediate impact on the country's sovereign rating.
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The comments from General Qamar Javed Bajwa come days before the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is due to decide whether to approve a $6 billion bailout for cash-strapped Pakistan, which is trying to avoid a balance of payments crisis.
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The EU's indebtedness (EUR56bn at end-2015) is only incurred for the purpose of on-lending to MS (through the balance of payments and the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism programmes - BoP and EFSM) or to neighbouring sovereigns (through the Macro-Financial Assistance programme - MFA).
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To assess China's economic situation, one must take a longer view and a more holistic approach, Ning Jizhe, vice chairman of China's state planner, told the People's Daily in an interview, stressing that growth, employment, prices and international balance of payments have been stable.
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India's trade deficit widened to $44.1 billion from $1.653 billion a year ago while the balance of payments posted a surplus of $9.4 billion in the October-December period, compared with a deficit of $1.2 billion a year ago, helped by a stronger capital account.
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"We have minimized the effect of oil and gas prices on our budget, we have minimized their impact on the balance of payments so the rate of growth we have enjoyed recently has been achieved by stepping up business activity and investments," he added.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Egypt's ratings balance a large fiscal deficit, a high general government debt/GDP ratio, strains on the balance of payments and recent volatile political history, with low albeit rising external debt and renewed progress in implementing an economic and fiscal reform programme.
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The lira has come under renewed pressure recently over concerns about Turkey's balance of payments, its ability to service its foreign debt, and repeated calls from Erdogan, who has described himself as an "enemy of interest rates", for the central bank to cut rates.
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The central bank said the new move, along with tax measures on vehicle imports taken by the government, is expected to curb non-essential imports of motor vehicles, and ease "undue pressure on the current account of the balance of payments" and the rupee.
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"Growth rates are low, unemployment rates have exceeded 30 per cent, poverty rates are increasing, the balance of payments suffers a deficit, public debt is rising at a rapid rate and has exceeded $80 billion and the treasury deficit has reached unsustainable levels," he added.
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"In the absence of rapid and significant policy change, a rapidly deteriorating balance of payments and deposit outflows will bring GDP growth to or below zero, further stoking social discontent, undermining debt sustainability and increasingly threatening the viability of the peg," the ratings agency said.
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With slowing growth, a budget deficit which has climbed to more than 7% of GDP and currency reserves of less than $8 billion, or enough to cover 1.7 months of imports, Pakistan has teetered on the edge of a debt and balance of payments crisis.
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She did not identify the size of the loan, but under the program, Pakistan would be able to borrow up to its full quota — about $2.76 billion — over two years, or $1.43 billion over a single year to meet urgent balance-of-payments needs.
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She added that the balance of payments had achieved a surplus of around $11 billion during the first nine months of the fiscal year, attributing that to an 18 percent growth in commodities exports and to growth in the service sector and foreign remittances.
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The country attracted $600 million in non-oil FDI in the second quarter, down from $956 million in the first quarter and $1.51 billion in the last quarter of 2017, according to a Reuters calculation based on balance of payments data released this week.
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"If they hadn't hiked today then the real risk was that the lira would sell off sharply again and the country would swiftly head toward a balance of payments and even a banking crisis," said Aberdeen Standard Investments head of emerging market debt Brett Diment.
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Those are much healthier levels than in 2013, when anticipation of a reining-in of the Fed's then stimulus programme led to big outflows that ballooned the balance of payments deficit and sent the current account gap to a record high of 4.8 percent of GDP.
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Countries which suffer balance of payments crises are typically emerging market economies that issue foreign-currency debt, or are in fixed exchange rate regimes, as Britain was when it ran into trouble in the 1960s and 1970s, culminating in a bailout from the International Monetary Fund.
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An initial devaluation in March this year failed to spur fund inflows, and $21 billion over three years would probably not be enough by itself to repair Egypt's balance of payments, especially if Gulf donors decide to cut their aid in response to their own budget pressures.
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The ruling comes at a sensitive time for the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan, which is facing increasing economic headwinds and which earlier this month signed a $6 billion bailout agreement with the International Monetary Fund to stave off a looming balance of payments crisis.
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Khan's government came to power with Pakistan already nearing a balance of payments crisis, and this month agreed a $6 billion bailout with the International Monetary Fund that came with tough austerity conditions including more taxes and an agreement to let the rupee currency fall sharply.
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"Fund staff maintains close engagement with the Sammarinese authorities, as with other member countries, to advise them on policies to promote stability and growth, and support their efforts to strengthen the provision of data in the banking sector, fiscal accounts, and balance of payments," he said.
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While there is no clear official data to gauge capital outflows from China, a popular measure is a component in its balance of payments called errors and omissions, which point to outflows of $88 billion in the first three months of this year, the most on record.
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Following the currency auction in June, a substantial amount of assets owned by foreigners remain 'locked in' (ISK191bn in government bonds, around 8% of GDP), but the risk to the balance of payments from this overhang of ISK assets has declined substantially over the past few years.
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In addition to global factors, India's macro-economic fundamentals have weakened sharply with the balance of payments slipping into the red for the first time in six quarters as dollar outflows picked up, current account deficit widened, partly as result of higher prices for imported oil.
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In assessing the global sovereign credit implications of policies enacted by the new US Administration, Fitch will focus on changes in growth trajectories, public finance positions and balance of payments performances, with particular emphasis on medium-term export prospects and possible pressures on external liquidity and sustainable funding.
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With slowing growth, a budget deficit that has climbed to more than 7% of GDP and currency reserves of about $8 billion following the first tranche of the IMF loan, Pakistan has been struggling to ward off a debt and balance of payments crisis for more than a year.
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The U.S. balance of payments has shown trade deficits for 41 straight years — a period during which the size of the U.S. economy tripled in real terms, real manufacturing value added quadrupled, and the number of jobs in the economy almost doubled, outpacing growth in the civilian workforce.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Turkish lira is significantly below fair value at the moment and should strengthen over the next one to two years as Turkey's economy slows and exports gain strength, improving the country's balance of payments outlook, economists for the Institute of International Finance said on Wednesday.
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But perhaps more importantly, a country that has trillions of dollars in assets that the world wants — about 300 billion barrels of oil reserves, plus hundreds of billions of dollars in gold — should never suffer from balance of payments problems no matter what happens to the price of oil.
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Growth in Pakistan's $300 billion economy surged to 5.3 percent in 2016-17, its fastest pace in a decade, but the macro-economic outlook has deteriorated, stoking concerns Pakistan may need an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout, as it did in 2013, to avert another balance of payments crisis.
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But Pakistan's economy has hit serious turbulence over the past year and Islamabad is now finalising a bailout package with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stave off a balance of payments crisis, despite more than $10 billion in short-term loans from allies such as China and Saudi Arabia.
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"The net contribution from foreign trade, which was negative for growth in 2016 due to the deterioration in the current account balance, should be neutral or even slightly positive in the coming years," Villeroy de Galhau told journalists at a presentation of an annual report on the balance of payments.
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Sri Lanka is battling a twin debt and balance of payments crisis - partly due to heavy commercial loans mainly from China to revitalise war-hit infrastructure, and the flow of money out of the country as foreign investors sold government securities in the wake of U.S. Federal Reserve monetary tightening.
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If those three countries — representing nearly 40 percent of global demand and output — were taken as a proxy for the world economy, you would have a perfect textbook case to show that the balance of payments of the world is zero, exactly as it should be, with minor measurement errors.
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But Pakistan's economy has hit serious turbulence over the past year and Islamabad is now finalizing a bailout package with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to stave off a balance of payments crisis, despite more than $10 billion in short-term loans from allies such as China and Saudi Arabia.
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To make that assessment, we need to look at net sales of assets to foreigners by the U.S. as a whole - or, equivalently, at our net sales of goods and services, because the balance of payments always balances: the trade balance is by definition the inverse of the net capital inflow.
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Sri Lanka is facing a balance-of-payments crisis after a third of its foreign exchange reserves has been depleted within the 15 months to January as the central bank heavily defended to the rupee LKR=LK, while strong imports in a lower interest rate regime also increase dollar outflows.
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"Although the Icelandic economy is now stronger, there is still a possibility that the lifting of capital controls would destabilise capital flows, causing renewed difficulties with the balance of payments," said ESA, which monitors compliance by the EFTA states Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway with the law of the European Economic Area (EEA).
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On top of lending the nuclear armed state billions of dollars to avert another balance of payments crisis, the IMF is this time expected to push Islamabad much harder to enact structural reforms needed to rebalance the economy, and rein in spending that has boosted growth but blown out the government budget.
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"Overall, the balance of payments in the second quarter of fiscal year 20113/22011 is negative because we achieved a deficit for the first time since fiscal year 22016/212, mainly pulled down by negative net portfolio investments due to the turbulence in emergent economies," said Yara Elkahky, an economist at Naeem Brokerage.
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BI on Thursday cut banks' reserve requirement ratios and Warjiyo said it was "a matter of timing and magnitude" before it made its first cut in the policy rate since September 2017, adding that one of the main indicators it was watching was the balance of payments, including the current account deficit.
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KEY ASSUMPTIONS --Fitch forecasts that Guatemala's economy and balance of payments will continue to benefit from relatively low oil prices (USD52.5/bl in 13 and USD55.0/bl in 2018) and supportive U.S. economic growth rates (2.3% in 2017 and 2.6% in 2018) Contact: Primary Analyst Arend Kulenkampff Director +1-646-582-5003 Fitch Ratings, Inc.
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Despite strong economic growth, the rupee has weakened more than 11 percent to become Asia's worst performing currency this year, as India's current account deficit widened, and balance of payments moved into the red as a consequence of higher oil global prices and an emerging markets sell-off that has seen portfolio inflows dwindle.
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Investors may begin to realise their business plans in the final quarter of 2019, following Widodo's announcement of the cabinet, Warjiyo said Inflation was not a concern, the governor said, predicting it would stay within target this and next year, while the current account deficit would be manageable and 2019 balance of payments "certain" to post a surplus.
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The reasons for this reduction in capital outflow compared with the figures we have seen in previous years is firstly that there has been a very considerable reduction of external debt among Russian companies and the schedule of the forthcoming payments for foreign debt indicate that there are no risks of pressure on the balance of payments.
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While various draft memorandums for the president argued that the request could be met, they also warned of serious consequences, including budget increases in the billions, balance of payments shortfalls, new tax requirements, a Reserve call as steep as 262,5003 men, bigger draft calls and monthly American casualties rates as high as 1,400 — nearly as extreme as Tet itself.
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"We believe that global emerging markets should be more resilient to higher U.S. rates/a stronger dollar because of the sharp improvement in their basic balance of payments deficits, while the sector adjusted P/E is now at a 20 percent discount to developed markets, a 12-year low," argue the analysts, refuting the overly bearish sentiment expressed by their clients.
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Fitch's sovereign rating committee adjusted the output from the SRM to arrive at the final LT FC IDR by applying its QO, relative to rated peers, as follows: - External Finances: -1 notch, to reflect that a lack of diversification in the export base and high degree of balance of payments volatility, which leaves the small economy vulnerable to external shocks.
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Assuming an SRM output of 'A+', Fitch's sovereign rating committee adjusted the output from the SRM to arrive at the final LT FC IDR by applying its QO, relative to rated peers, as follows: - External finances: -1 notch, to reflect the fact that the small size of the economy makes it vulnerable to external shocks and balance of payments risks.
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The main factors that, individually or collectively, could lead to a negative rating action are: - Failure to narrow the fiscal deficit and put government debt/GDP on a downward trend; - Reversal of fiscal and/or monetary reforms, for example in the face of social unrest; - Renewed downward pressure on international reserves due to further strains on the balance of payments, including weaker access to foreign financing.
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Martin: What I said to the press was this, that I wanted to make it clear that we would not have raised the discount rate at this time if it had not been for the British action, that we had been for some time watching the possibility of inflationary pressures developing or some problems with the balance of payments developing, but that you had indicated that you wanted us to stimulate the economy in every way that we could.
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These options include increased domestic oil production in order to reduce our reliance on foreign imports while creating U.S. jobs and reducing our balance of payments, taking steps to modernize our fuel economy standards to better accommodate new connected and autonomous driving technologies and business models like ride-sharing, and increasing the use of advanced fuel sources such as electricity, natural gas and hydrogen in the transportation sector so we are no longer dependent on one fuel source.
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So, really there is no trade imbalance, once you account for all of the dollar outflows and all of the dollar inflows that the balance of payments as the Bureau of Economic Analysis calculates it is always really zero once you account for all the capital ... LEVIN: But if we play along with the equation, I ask myself, okay, we&aposre $600 billion, $800 billion and the numbers pop around here and there, $20183 billion with this country, whatever it is, and they never break it down by products.
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Fitch's sovereign rating committee adjusted the output from the SRM to arrive at the final LT FC IDR by applying its QO, relative to rated peers, as follows: - Public finances: -1 notch, to reflect the fact that the estimate for the general government balance for 2016 is boosted (by around 16% of GDP) by the stability contributions of the old banks' estates, and therefore do not reflect underlying trends in public finances - External finances: -1 notch, to reflect the fact that the small size of the economy makes it vulnerable to external shocks and balance of payments risks - Structural: -1 notch, to reflect the fact that capital controls have been in place since 2008, adversely affecting the business environment Fitch's SRM is the agency's proprietary multiple regression rating model that employs 13 variables based on three year centred averages, including one year of forecasts, to produce a score equivalent to a LT FC IDR.
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