Yellen to Focus on World Bank and China at Global Meetings

(Bloomberg) ― Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is expected to push her agenda for the World Bank, meet with senior Chinese officials and potentially discuss new ways to limit Russia’s revenue from oil sales on a nine-day international trip set to start Sunday.

Yellen will spend five days in Marrakech, Morocco, where the International Monetary Fund and World Bank are holding annual meetings. On Oct. 10, she’s scheduled to deliver a speech on World Bank reforms at 3:15 p.m. local time, 10:15 a.m. in New York, according to a senior Treasury official who spoke Thursday with reporters. She will hold a press conference at 9 a.m. local time Oct. 11.