Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) -- European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet and other finance officials are gathered in Istanbul for the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

This report compiles comments on the outlook for the U.S. economy and currency markets from Trichet; Nouriel Roubini, an economics professor at New York University; Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economics professor at Columbia University; billionaire investor George Soros; French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde; Niall Ferguson, a history professor at Harvard University, and Jim O'Neill, chief economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (Source: Bloomberg)

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