By Naomi Rovnick and Ankur Banerjee LONDON, SINGAPORE (Reuters) -The U.S. dollar headed towards an almost 7% annual gain on Friday and Japan’s yen for a fourth consecutive year of losses as traders anticipated robust…
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By Stephen Culp and Alden Bentley NEW YORK (Reuters) -Wall Street indexes were mixed on Thursday and U.S. benchmark Treasury yields were hardly changed on the day after scaling the highest levels since May in…
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China revised upwards its 2023 gross domestic product (GDP) by 2.7% to 129.4 trillion yuan ($17.73 trillion), a top statistics official said on Thursday, while releasing the fifth national economic census. Policy…
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s inflation has reached 9.5% this year, according to new weekly data showing that the consumer price index rose by 0.33% in the week leading up to Dec. 23, the statistical agency…
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By Takaya Yamaguchi TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s government is set to compile a record $735 billion budget for the fiscal year from April due to larger social security and debt-servicing costs, adding to the industrial world’s…
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BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia’s minimum wage will increase by 9.54% in 2025, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said on Tuesday, announcing the hike by decree after a deal was not reached between the government, business associations and…
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BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand is planning a small rise in spending of 3.78 trillion baht ($110.7 billion) for the 2026 fiscal year and a slightly lower deficit of 860 billion that year, the government said…
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By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Reserve said on Monday it was considering major changes to its annual bank “stress tests” in light of recent legal developments, including allowing lenders to provide comment…
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s domestic demand is gathering pace as cautious consumers increasingly choose to rent items from cameras to handbags rather than buying them, the official People’s Daily said, though government data tell a…
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(Reuters) -Singapore Post said on Sunday it had dismissed its chief executive and two other senior managers after an internal investigation found they had mishandled whistleblower allegations about misconduct by company employees. The alleged misconduct…
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