G-20 Ministers Squabble Over Imbalance Diagnostics

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Group of 20 finance chiefs remain divided over the next steps to narrow global economic imbalances as they squabble over how to reach a diagnosis.

French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, who is hosting a meeting starting tomorrow in Paris of G-20 central bankers and her counterparts, said she’s hoping for an accord on which indicators should be used to analyze imbalances that economists blame in part for the financial crisis.