Browsing: Economy

The numbers: A survey of consumer confidence fell to a five-month low of 102.6 in October amid worries about inflation, rising interest rates and fighting between…

Gediminas Simkus, a member of the European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council and a Lithuanian authority, expressed skepticism towards a rate reduction in the first half…

House Republicans have released a proposal to grant Israel billions of dollars in military aid and to pay for it by cutting funding to the Internal…

FRANKFURT/VILNIUS (Reuters) -Two European Central Bank policymakers pushed back on Monday against market bets that the ECB will start cutting interest rates in the first half…

The focus of the country is about to switch to 24/7 wall-to-wall coverage of the presidential election, including primaries, debates, campaign-spending totals, and poll results. But in…

By Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s economy tsar He Lifeng has been appointed director of a key ruling Communist Party economic body, matching his high-profile…

OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s central bank is expected to keep its key policy interest rate on hold this week but could hike borrowing costs again by…

The Federal Reserve is hunting for a unicorn by holding U.S. interest rates steady and hoping that’s enough to bring inflation down to 2% without a recession.Historically, soft landings…

By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) -The Swiss National Bank is set to reduce the amount of money it pays commercial banks after it announced on Monday…

“‘Ultimately, I think he will spend a night or a weekend in jail.’” — Ty Cobb That’s Ty Cobb, a former White House lawyer under Donald…