Investors see the IMF as a policeman who controls good fiscal and monetary policies. When a crisis hits, emergency credit lines from the IMF are what makes emerging market investors more comfortable.
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Related More and more investors are comfortable with emerging markets. MICHAEL GOMEZ Bad monetary and fiscal policy, often designed by the IMF, is the real cause of global problems. The... BRIAN S. WESBURY Investors are more confident about Japan. There is a slight wariness about emerging-market equities. DAVID BOWERS The appetite for emerging markets remains strong, and we are continuing to see appetite and demand f... MPHO MOJALEFA When the IMF lends you money it has all these strings attached. But if you don't owe the IMF money, ... FELIPE NOGUERA I think the IMF helped to detonate the Indonesian crisis. JEFFREY SACHS Those ratings have come from fundamental improvements in monetary and fiscal policy. Deficit spendin... DARIO PEDRAJO The market has to analyze at what costs and conditions we are getting the IMF money. The market is n... CELSO CENISE The new public credit team is much more realistic regarding market conditions for Argentina. This pr... BORIS SEGURA The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to I... JEFFREY SACHS We're starting to have a more positive scenario, where investors are resuming their bets that emergi... EDUARDO COTRIM It's good that the IMF realized that they couldn't wriggle out of promised debt cancellation. The IM... MAX LAWSON They still want to portray themselves as a normal democracy, ... I don't think anybody will be foole... LOVEMORE MADHUKU We will see volatility here until investors get a little more comfortable with what's going on. TOM HOUGHTON The Chinese are offering the loan as an alternative to working with the IMF. PRINCETON LYMAN I wouldn't be surprised if the institutions, such as pensions and endowments that have been plowing ... BRAD DURHAM In this age of electronic money, investors are no longer seduced by a financial 'dance of a thousand... LARRY SUMMERS Economic fundamentals are still solid. Investors continue to put more money into emerging market in ... BRAD DURHAM In the first half of the year, investors really needed to be somewhat divorced from reality. It was ... ERIC WIEGAND Today's uncertainties call for vigilance by the authorities in both mature and emerging market econo... JOSEF ACKERMANN The moment a large investor doesn't believe a government will pay back its debt when it says it ... ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Korea's early repayment of the full amount of loans from the IMF is a major milestone, HORST KOEHLER Even the IMF payment is nothing much to cheer about because nothing on the ground has changed, the g... JAMES JOWA I think the kinds of programs the IMF [International Monetary Fund] is putting in place are strong p... ROBERT RUBIN The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved. MARK RUTTE Investors across the region are nervous and are taking their cues from the Saudi market. HASHEM MONTASSER They (IMF) will be very concerned with the upsurge of inflation. The other problem will be that the ... ERIC BLOCH Some investors are worrying about the slowdown in the housing market, a key driver of the U.S. econo... TORU UMEMOTO To ensure stable and sustainable economic growth, world leaders must re-examine the international ru... RAGHURAM RAJAN Conservatives believe that international institutions such as the United Nations are anti-American a... MICHAEL IGNATIEFF Investors are going to shy away from Peru until they see a clearer electoral outcome. What hurts the... CAROLA SANDY Foreign investors very much credit Koizumi...with the economic recovery Japan is now enjoying. Stren... KIRBY DALEY The market is in a transition stage, from a broad-based advance to a more selective environment. Inv... EUGENE PERONI The evidence is now undeniable that the IMF has played a destabilizing role in world financial affai... DICK ARMEY Korea's early repayment of the full amount of loans from the IMF is a major milestone. HORST KOEHLER Investors should prepare for a change in monetary policy. Hold off buying 10-year bonds as yields ar... AKIHIKO YOKOYAMA Investors will be reluctant to try (to push shares) higher as they wait for more information on the ... MASAYOSHI YANO This isn't really the way that investors want to see Credit Suisse boost profits. JAVIER LODEIRO I believe that good investors are successful not because of their IQ, but because they have an inves... STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER Investors are thinking the BOJ may change its monetary policy sooner than expected and that's why bo... JUN FUKASHIRO We are in a cyclical bear market and investors' reaction to good news is certainly indicative of tha... GERALD VINCENT Investors are looking at this market and taking a step back. NICK ANGILLETTA A few months ago we were in a buoyant market where investors and analysts were willing to be more fo... CAREN TAYLOR I don't understand why they are so keen to stay in the IMF. ANTHONY HAWKINS Trading is cautious as investors are waiting for the market to choose a direction after the recent v... LIANG JING IMF is almost never a real assistance to developing countries, ROBERT MUGABE Now market participants are saying that investors should expect range bound trading to continue into... ANGUS CAMPBELL A lot of joblessness in the black community doesn't seem to be reachable through fiscal and mone... WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON At the moment, it seems that a there is a huge wave of money coming in from overseas, and investors ... ANDREW CLARKE I think what you're going to see going forward is that public investors and also venture capitalists... JEFF BEZOS The fiscal numbers that came out this morning started worrying investors. CARLOS HOKAMA Gainers outnumber losers and sentiment is not bad. But investors are keeping away from large-cap tec... MASAFUMI NAKAYAMA The objective of this is more political than economic. It's to get rid of the IMF obligations. ALBERTO BERNAL Brazil has never been more attractive to foreign investors. The fundamentals of Brazil are solid, an... GUIDO MANTEGA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. The market is kind of confused. There are a lot of question marks around that are causing nervousnes... ANDRE CAMINADA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Japanese investors have just started kicking in offshore investment at the beginning of the new fisc... HIDEKI HAYASHI I see him as very committed to fiscal discipline. It's a good signal to the market. LEONARDO SUAREZ There is this vague hope about the start of the new fiscal year ... I don't think institutional inve... YOSHINORI NAGANO The IMF is set up to deal with liquidity crises. STEVE HANKE But such IMF pressure is very much helpful for me to push such a, you know, reform. So in this sense... KIM DAE JUNG I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution. JOSE MANUEL BARROSO Japan is closed today so the market is taking the U.S. as a reference. But there's not much activity... GEORGE CHAN The market is dominated by local investors and local investors tend to worry about political matters... LANCE DEPEW Many investors and funds continued selling... as the market lacks fresh good news. Interest-rate wor... CASTOR PANG The IMF is prepared for the time when there is a satisfactory program available, and that must inclu... HANS TIETMEYER The market has taken a cue from the New York market and advanced. But a lack of fresh factors is alr... HIROAKI KURAMOCHI Seems like Tokyo stocks hit the short-term bottom on Monday. Now investors are comfortable about buy... KENICHI AZUMA That makes it definitely worth watching how bonds are trading. When there are problems at a company,... LINCOLN ANDERSON Yes, the idea came from the IMF, but it's better (than previous program). So we can communicate agai... PASKAH SUZETTA Apple's announcement deterred investors from buying certain semiconductor-related stocks. But the Ne... MASATOSHI SATO The Japanese market is closed today, so there are few reasons to prompt investors to either sell or ... MARCO MAK If you want to invest in emerging markets, invest in a good manager. Although emerging market funds ... BRIDGET HUGHES The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic - the World Bank, the IMF, the WTO. JOSE SARAMAGO Prolonged confusion in the U.S. presidential election and the growing possibility of a political cri... YUTAKA MIURA We're in a skittish market and the last thing you want to do is surprise investors. PAUL MEEKS They want more detail about where the money goes. I see them as more informed investors who want to ... DAVID KENNEDY I think investors are somewhat nervous about the economic data coming out. Once investors do become ... DAVID PRESSON Stocks with higher dividends keep luring investors ahead of the fiscal year end. MASAYOSHI OKAMOTO Foreign investors started looking for other options in non-emerging markets. EDGAR JIMENEZ As investors begin to focus on fiscal year 2007 and estimates continue to move higher, the stock sho... ADAM HOLT Raising profit thresholds are in line with the regulator's pledge to help good-quality companies rai... LI ZHI The IMF and other multilateral institutions do not appear to have prevented nations from manipulatin... STEVE MNUCHIN As the appetite for risk declines, investors are becoming more defensive and more domestically focus... BOB SINCHE truly (is) a global market. We have investors flowing into our market from around the world, and we'... JOSEPH DUNCAN I think the trend has changed since yesterday afternoon, when investors started focusing on individu... KOJI MUNEOKA The market took a breather ... as investors moved to lock-in profits after the main indices here sur... MITSUSHIGE AKINO I think there's a real lack of commitment in the market right now from both institutional and indivi... JOSEPH BATTIPAGLIA Every day there is a different personality to the market. I'm worried about that. I think it makes i... WILLIAM ROE The budget didn't have any surprises for the market and this has come as a major relief for investor... DEEPAK SHAH The conditions on the IMF are still not adequate to me, ... But we had to move the bill. TRENT LOTT A lot of investors were taking advantage of good prices, and a lot of investors stayed on the sideli... SERGIO GARCIA Since the IMF meeting there has been no contact to my knowledge. JOEL NETSHITENZHE The country's adherence to fiscal discipline, despite low debt levels, is commendable and reassuring... ALBERTO RAMOS Investors have become completely convinced that we need to see the housing canary buckle under a lit... ANTHONY CHAN Local market sentiment was also buoyed by overseas investors, who had placed large net buy orders ah... HIROYUKI NAKAI The areas measured are starting a business; hiring and firing workers; enforcing contracts; register... MICHAEL CULLEN With the expectation that (fiscal year 2006) will be a year of 'spend' before the positive impacts a... ERIC WOLD This operation removes the stigma of having bonds trading in the market that reminds investors of th... ALBERTO RAMOS
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