IMF warns of new threats to global economy due to excessive risk taking

Geopolitical tensions and increased risk taking add to disruption, though world economy expected to pick up during 2015 Excessive risk taking and geopolitical hazards pose new threats to a global economy already experiencing an uneven and weaker than expected recovery, the International Monetary Fund has warned. In an assessment prepared for finance ministers and central bank governors of the G20 countries, the Washington-based fund said problems in the US, the eurozone, China, Japan, Russia and...