IMF: US-caused global credit squeeze may threaten world economy


  • Business
  • Wednesday, 10 Oct 2007

WASHINGTON (AP) - The recent global credit squeeze caused by the meltdown of risky U.S. mortgage loans may test the ability of the world's economy to keep expanding, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday. 

The IMF also said government policymakers would be confronted with new problems from the continuing process of globalization and warned against overconfidence that economic stability would continue indefinitely. 

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