IMF's Rajan on global current account imbalances

In a speech on 'Global current account imbalances: Hard landing or soft landing' given on 15 March, Raghuram Rajan of the IMF said foreign private investors are more important than central banks in funding the United States current account deficit.

Overseas central banks accounted for a third of total purchases of US securities, Rajan said at a Hong Kong seminar.

The central banks were less likely to shift their foreign currency holdings, suggesting their importance to the dollar was limited, he

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