Yellen says US working to mitigate risks to global economy

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Tuesday said stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth had helped power the global economy, and Washington was working to mitigate remaining risks to the ... Read More

Yellen Heads to China This Week to Press Beijing on Overcapacity

aiming to press her counterparts on a build-up of industrial overcapacity that poses threats to the rest of the world’s economies. Yellen will spend two days in the southern commercial and ... Read More

US’ Yellen Tells China That Its Industrial Subsidies Poses Risks To Global Economy

Yellen arrived in the southern city of Guangzhou on Thursday for several days of talks with Chinese officials on her second visit to the world’s second-largest economy in less than a year. Read More

Treasury's Yellen says funding bill allows lending of $21 bln to IMF trust

WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters ... of low-income countries,” Yellen said. Get weekly news and analysis on the U.S. elections and how it matters to the world with the newsletter On the Campaign ... Read More

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Israeli officials say they didn’t see a strike on a high-level Iranian target in Syria as a provocation, and did not give Washington a heads-up about it until right before it happened. By ... Read More

Yellen says China is too big to export its way to rapid growth

GUANGZHOU, China, April 5 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on ... Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider ... Read More

Yellen visiting China to combat climate change, protect interests of American workers

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is ... that benefit the U.S. and China, as well as the world as a whole, which includes bolstering financial stability to protect our economies from potential ... Read More

The big challenges facing the IMF and World Bank

Power up. The World Bank announced it is launching a massive $35 billion plan to connect 300 million people in Africa to electricity. It’s the kind of fundamental development work the World Bank ... Read More

US Treasury Secretary Yellen meets foreign business leaders in China ahead of trade talks

GUANGZHOU, China (AP) — U.S ... in the world's second-largest economy, ahead of what will likely be tough talks on trade and other issues with senior Chinese government officials. Yellen ... Read More

Yellen says China’s rapid buildout of its green energy industry ‘distorts global prices’

WASHINGTON--Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ... S.-China economic relations, which are strained due to investment prohibitions, espionage concerns and other issues. China on Tuesday filed a World ... Read More

Yellen to China: Help stop Russia’s war in Ukraine or lose standing in the world

“I would like to see us preserve the benefits of deep economic integration with China--not moving to a bipolar world--but I believe that’s a danger we need to address,” Yellen said. Yellen ... Read More

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When Paris F.C. made its tickets free, it began an experiment into the connection between fans and teams, and posed a question about the value of big crowds to televised sports. The country’s ... Read More