Australia Finance Meeting Seeks Global Growth Boost

The world's most powerful central bankers and finance ministers - including U.S. Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen and International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde - are meeting in northern Australia. Finance ministers and central bank governors from the G20 group of nations meeting in the Queensland city of Cairns have agreed on measures to raise global economic growth by nearly 2 percent over five years. But there are differences on the need for short-term...

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