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BERLIN (Reuters) – European new car registrations grew in August, bringing an end to 13 months of consecutive decline, data from the region’s carmaker association showed on Friday. The number …

By Liangping Gao and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -Woes in China’s property market worsened in August, with official data showing home prices, sales and investment all falling in August, as …

By Kevin Yao and Ellen Zhang BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s economy showed surprising resilience in August, with faster-than-expected growth in factory output and retail sales shoring up a fragile recovery, but …

By Kevin Buckland and Rae Wee TOKYO/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Japan’s threats of currency intervention might slow but not stop the yen from hurtling towards three-decade lows before the year end, …

By Chavi Mehta, Tiyashi Datta and Krystal Hu (Reuters) -Adobe Inc agreed on Thursday to acquire cloud-based designer platform Figma for $20 billion, sparking investor concerns about the rich price …

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Anshuman Daga Disagreement over interest rate increases is discernible. Two ECB policymakers gave diverging views about the size …

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China Evergrande Group said its electric vehicle (EV)unit started mass production on Friday of the Hengchi 5 model at a plant in the northern city of Tianjin. Delivery …

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s core consumer inflation rate likely rose to a near eight-year high in August as companies passed on rising raw material costs fuelled by the weak yen, …

By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – U.S. freight railways and unions representing 115,000 workers may have reached a deal to avert a damaging shutdown that could have battered the …

By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday he would not rule out any options in taking action in the foreign exchange …

By Arsh Tushar Mogre BENGALURU (Reuters) – India’s current account deficit likely widened to its highest in nearly a decade in the April-June quarter, driven by soaring global commodity prices …

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Members of the European Parliament backed a resolution on Thursday that condemned China’s live-fire military exercises in the Taiwan Strait and called for closer ties between the European …

By Mukhammadsharif Mamatkulov SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said he understood that Xi Jinping had questions and concerns about the situation in Ukraine but praised China’s …

By Wayne Cole and Stella Qiu SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s top central banker on Friday said interest rates are closer to normalisation after a successive run of outsized hikes, although he …

By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – Donations for an Iowa teenager poured in on Thursday, doubling the $150,000 amount a court ordered her to pay the family of a man whom …

By Mike Stone, Humeyra Pamuk and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden announced a new $600 million arms package to help the Ukrainian military battle Russia, according to …

By Omar Younis and Rich McKay LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A California man convicted of first-degree murder in the 2019 shooting of Grammy-winning rapper Nipsey Hussle had his sentencing delayed …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh kept railroads and unions at the bargaining table for 20 hours, fueled by sandwiches and baked ziti, to clinch …

By Nathan Gomes and Lisa Baertlein (Reuters) -FedEx Corp on Thursday withdrew the financial forecast it issued just three months ago, saying a global demand slowdown accelerated at the end …

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazil’s presidential hopeful Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva leads incumbent Jair Bolsonaro by 12 points, a Thursday poll showed, while the far-right leader seeking reelection has …

Mortgage Rates Jump Above 6% For First Time Since 2008, Making Buyers Feel The Squeeze John Hugh DeMastri on September 15, 2022 Thirty-year fixed-rate mortgages jumped past 6% for the …

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican crime lord Jorge Costilla Sanchez was sentenced to life in prison in a U.S. federal court on Thursday for his involvement in trafficking marijuana and …

By Sheila Dang and Katie Paul (Reuters) – Major tech companies on Thursday committed to taking fresh steps to combat online extremism by removing more violent content and promoting media …

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s unemployment rate fell to a record low in August, while employed people increased for an 18th straight month, government data showed on Friday. The country’s …