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The IMF said yesterday that Japan's economy will grow 2.3% in 2007.However Japanese economic growth for 2008 is projected at 1.9%.

Stock Investing Course (AXcess News) Washington - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) voiced concerns over the rate of consumption by various nations throughout the world at a press briefing in Washington yesterday over the world economic outlook.

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Stock Market Game Mr. Raghuram Rajan, IMF Economic Counsellor and Director Research Department said the world was overly dependent on a handful of nations and voiced key concerns including the excessive dependence of global demand on consumption, especially in the United States, the elevated level of asset prices, particularly housing, and the high and volatile price of oil.

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Journal Prime Rate Street Wall "Before Katrina, solid growth and booming house prices allowed the U.S. consumer to boldly spend like no one has spent before. But consumer confidence has fallen. With rising inflation cutting into nominal wages, and rising interest rates slowing house price growth, we expect private consumption growth to slow. We project lower overall growth of 3.5 percent this year and 3.3 percent next year for the United States," said Rajan.

Last month, the ISM came in at 49.5, the first below 50 reading in 3 years, raising great concerns regarding the direction of the US economy.

Stock Market News Rajan said the European GDP projections have drifted down to 1.2 percent for 2005 and 1.8 for 2006. Weak domestic demand continues to be the main problem. "Europe's citizens do not seem convinced the bitter medicine of continued structural reforms will cure the stasis that afflicts much of the continent," he said.

Stock Investing Basics The Japanese economy offers more hope, Rajan said, with the first half of this year coming in very strong. Particularly gratifying has been the steady improvement in private consumption. Coupled with buoyant private investment, Japan has been reducing its reliance on exports for growth. The IMF increased its estimate of 2005 growth to 2 percent.

Stock Investing Software China's economic expansion continues unabated, with growth of 9 percent for 2005, and a moderate easing to 8.2 percent for 2006. "While China has to increase consumption, it also needs to improve the quality of its investment. Provinces, state-owned corporations, and banks need to face a realistic cost of capital so that they invest more carefully," Rajan said.

Stock Market Trading India has been growing strongly and is basking in the glow of domestic business confidence and growing international interest. To maintain or even accelerate growth, India will need further reforms. "Unfortunately, the government has not built the needed consensus, and even the halting steps towards fiscal consolidation are giving way partially to populist measures. There is a tide, as Shakespeare wrote, which taken at the flood leads on to fortune. India cannot afford to miss the tide again," Rajan stated.

Stock Investing For Dummy Rajan cautioned that the risks of global consumption were great. "Some have suggested the world has a savings glut. In fact, the world is investing too little."

Stock Market Crash "The current situation has its roots in a series of crises over the last decade that were caused by excessive investment, including the Japanese asset bubble, the crises in emerging Asia and Latin America, and more recently the IT bubble, Rajan said. Investment has fallen off sharply since then, with only very cautious recovery."

Stock Investing Tip The policy response to the slowdown in investment has differed considerably across countries. In the industrial countries, accommodative policies such as expansionary budgets and low interest rates have led to consumption or credit-fueled growth, particularly in the Anglo-Saxon economies. Government savings have fallen, especially in the United States and Japan, and household savings have virtually disappeared in some countries with housing booms.

Stock Market Chart By contrast, the crises were a wake-up call in a number of emerging market countries. Historically lax policies have been tightened, with some countries running primary fiscal surpluses for the first time, and most bringing down inflation through tight monetary policy. With corporations cautious about investing and governments prudent about expenditure, exports have led growth. Many emerging markets have run current account surpluses for the first time.

Online Stock Investing Rich countries with policy room expanded consumption and were supplied and financed by emerging markets, whose governments needed to be more austere. "This is not a new world order; it is a temporary and effective response to crises. Now it needs to be reversed," Rajan said.

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