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Is any intervention to the Fed a global risk?

The head of the European Central Bank fears that any intervention by US president Donald Trump into the Federal Reserve could be a global economic risk.

The head of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, fears that any intervention by US president Donald Trump's administration into the Federal Reserve could have wider implications and be a global economic risk.

We hear from Dr Yu Jie, of Chatham House, on the significance of today's summit between China, India and Russia, as well as what a new development bank could look like.

Elsewhere, Ed Butler discusses Trump's claims that Ethiopia's showpiece hydro-project, formally inaugurated this month, has actually been financed with American money. But the east African country say that's nonsense.

And why a tiny Caribbean island is cashing in on its internet web name.

The latest business and finance news from around the world, on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½.

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