The IMF has warned that jitters surrounding Donald Trump’s threat to impose trade tariffs were driving up longer-term borrowing costs and would add to pressures facing the global economy in 2025. Speaking to reporters in Washington on Friday,

US President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff threats are already driving up longer-term borrowing costs around the world, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said.

US president-elect Donald Trump's threat of tariffs brings a new degree of uncertainty to the global economic outlook, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Friday.