{"id":42593,"date":"2014-06-17T06:51:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T10:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=42593"},"modified":"2014-06-17T06:51:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T10:51:47","slug":"imf-slashes-estimate-for-us-economic-growth-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2014\/imf-slashes-estimate-for-us-economic-growth-in-2014.html","title":{"rendered":"IMF slashes estimate for US economic growth in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; The International Monetary Fund slashed its forecast for US economic growth on Monday, citing a harsh winter, problems in the housing market and weak international demand for the country&#8217;s products.<\/p>\n<p>In its annual review of the US economy, the IMF cut its growth forecast by 0.8 percentage points to 2%. At a press conference IMF managing director Christine Lagarde blamed the bad winter for much of the cut and said the setback should be temporary. But she warned: \u201cGrowth in and of itself will not be enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2014\/jun\/16\/imf-slashes-us-economy-growth-2014\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian &#8211; The International Monetary Fund slashed its forecast for US economic growth on Monday, citing a harsh winter, problems in the housing market and weak international demand for the country&#8217;s products. In its annual review of the US economy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42594,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42593\/revisions\/42594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}