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There’s no toss of a coin needed to see which will be the most important this week from the Group of 20 leaders meeting, or the two day Federal Reserve meeting in Washington a couple of days earlier.

It has been 12 months since US investment bank Lehman Brothers failed and set off a roller coaster ride for the global economy.

Here’s the full minutes of the meeting:

International Economic Conditions

Overall, the data available over the past month had indicated a continued consolidation in the global economy. Data for June quarter GDP were now available for most economies and showed that growth in the Asian region had been much stronger than elsewhere.