IMF managing director warns central banks to 'resist' calls for early rate cuts

Banks on ‘final stretch’ of inflation battle

Eve Maddock-Jones
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The managing director of the International Monetary Fund has urged central banks not to succumb to political pressure to cut interest rates early.

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