Key insights from the IMF’s October 2026 World Economic Outlook, Global Financial Stability Report and Fiscal Monitor

The world economy and global financial markets showed remarkable resilience entering 2026. Yet new conflicts, supply chain disruptions, and rapid technological change continue to reshape the economic and financial landscape. The October 2026 IMF World Economic Outlook, Global Financial Stability Report and Fiscal Monitor explore the forces driving the global economy, financial markets and public finances, from growing fiscal pressures to AI deployment, and from strains on still-resilient trade to new frontiers in digital finance, and highlight the need for policy action without further delay.

The e-lecture: “Key insights from the IMF’s October 2026 World Economic Outlook, Global Financial Stability Report and Fiscal Monitor” brings together their authors to present key messages of the three flagship publications.

• World Economic Outlook
  Deniz Igan · Chief of the IMF Research Department's World Economic Studies Division

• Global Financial Stability Report
  Jason J. Wu · Assistant Director Monetary and Capital Markets Department · IMF
• Fiscal Monitor
  Davide Furceri · Division Chief, Fiscal Affairs Department · IMF

      Moderated by Ernest Gnan · Secretary General, SUERF

There will be the opportunity for Q&A during the event.

More information available here.