G20 Live from St Andrews
Reuters coverage of the G20
- Just to refresh, the G20 comprises 19 countries and the European Union:
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, United Kingdom and the United States. - The meeting gets underway in earnest tomorrow, but for now you can read a preview at link.reuters.com
- On my way to the G20 at St Andrew's now. Here are a few first thoughts I had on the BoE meeting before I left link.reuters.comby reutersDavidM via twitter 11/5/2009 4:10:22 PM
- David Milliken covers the UK economy for Reuters in London
- Thursday's news on the G20 included Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega saying the group should discuss the disparity between pegged and floating currencies, and French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde saying countries should abide by the same rules governing bonuses.
- UK finance minister Alistair Darling tells Reuters G20 knows it is too early to begin pulling the plug on economic stimulus packages. link.reuters.com
- China likely to dismiss any G20 attempts to blame it for global economic woes link.reuters.comby reutersJeremyG via twitter 11/6/2009 8:09:46 AM
- Jeremy Gaunt is Reuter's European investment correspondent. He is monitoring the G20 meeting from London.
- For previous comuniques of G20 meetings, go to www.g20.org
- Journalists starting to arrive at G20 press centre in giant white tent at edge of cold, windswept St Andrews golf courseby reutersAndrewT via twitter 11/6/2009 9:21:15 AM
- The G20 officials will meet a couple of hundred metres away in the Fairmont Hotel -- no sign of them yet, most to arrive in afternoonby reutersAndrewT via twitter 11/6/2009 9:23:09 AM
- That's were the delegates are. Above is a view of the journalist hang out.
- Reminder that you can read our interview with UK finance minister and G20 host Alistair Darling at link.reuters.com
- Very tight security -- tightest I've seen! Reporters generally not being let near hotel, which will make buttonholing officials difficultby reutersAndrewT via twitter 11/6/2009 11:16:20 AM
- G20 press team freezing in seaside marqueeby reutersSujataR via twitter 11/6/2009 11:23:12 AM
- Moscow correspondent the only one able to sit in marquee without an overcoatby reutersSujataR via twitter 11/6/2009 11:25:39 AM
- Andrew Torchia is Reuters treasury editor for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Sujata Rao is our BRICs correspondent.
- Wonder if BRICS are also losing patience with China's strong currency. Brazil seems to be suggesting that.by reutersAxelB via twitter 11/6/2009 11:33:45 AM
- Axel Bugge is Reuters chief correspondent in Lisbon. He will be following Brazil closely at the G20.
- This place is so cold. We are right on the coast and it is pouring down and we are in a tent kept well away from the meetingby reutersSumeetD via twitter 11/6/2009 11:59:30 AM
- Sumeet Desai is chief UK economic correspondent
- I was at the birth of the G20 in Berlin 10 yrs ago and even though it was snowing then, it really didn't feel so cold.by reutersSumeetD via twitter 11/6/2009 12:01:39 PM
- G20 spouses have a good deal. While their partners discuss rebalancing the global economy, they get to indulge in a spa or make up classby reutersSumeetD via twitter 11/6/2009 12:04:14 PM
- No BRICs finance ministers meeting or communique expected, but deputies will get together, Brazil's Mantega tells Reuters' Sebastian Tongby reutersJeremyG via twitter 11/6/2009 12:05:23 PM
- Alternatively there is also golf laid on for them tho guess the weather isn't quite rightby reutersSumeetD via twitter 11/6/2009 12:08:27 PM
- Does lack of plan for a BRIC communique show other BRICs getting impatient too with China FX policy? That's one line of speculation hereby reutersAndrewT via twitter 11/6/2009 1:54:54 PM
- Something for G20 finance ministers to chew over at dinner -- the latest U.S. jobs data. U.S. employers cut a deeper-than-expected 190,000 jobs in October, driving the unemployment rate to |10.2 percent, the highest in 26-1/2 year. But job losses were revised for August and September to show 91,000 fewer jobs lost than previously reported.
- If G20 fiscal exit strategies are to be coordinated, are the Europeans jumping ahead of the game by setting 2011 as the deadline?by reutersJanS via twitter 11/6/2009 2:08:45 PM
- That's Huw Jones on the video talking about too-big-to-fail banks. He is our European regulation correspondent.
- G20 ministers to start talks on what to do with banks deemed too big to fail. Will be a case of too thorny to find consensus for now.by reutersHuwJ via twitter 11/6/2009 2:17:01 PM
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- And this is our own: r.reuters.comby reutersNatsukoW via twitter 11/6/2009 2:32:41 PM
- Biggest debate on exit strategies seems how much to communicate to public; some want more communication, others fear it could scare marketsby reutersAndrewT via twitter 11/6/2009 2:46:53 PM
- World Bank President Robert Zoellick in pensive mood as he arrives at G20 meeting
- A cold looking Sumeet Desai on the video talking about bonuses with Anna Willard, our French economic correspondent
- It must be a strange experience for non-European officials to talk to Europeans at events such as this. If you want to make a deal with Europe, whom do you speak to? At the table there is Germany, France, Italy and Britain, a representative of the country that holds the rotating EU presidency (currently Sweden) and a representative of the executive European Commission. For more on this, read our EU correspondent Jan Strupczewski's new blog post link.reuters.com
- Brazilian source said they view China's fixed forex with concern. Seems like the strongest statement so far by a BRIC country on China yuan.by reutersAxelB via twitter 11/6/2009 5:45:40 PM
- Just back from the ministers' hotel. I was taken in past the kitchens -- a number of bottles of Fonseca port were ready for after dinner.by reutersDavidM via twitter 11/6/2009 5:47:27 PM
- IMF cautious on economy but many G20 officials more positive; EU's Almunia says we're closer to sustainable recovery than at past meetingsby reutersAndrewT via twitter 11/6/2009 5:55:11 PM
- Geithner and Zoellick both went for a jogby reutersAnnaW via twitter 11/6/2009 6:20:53 PM
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