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U.S. preps for another record-breaking rise in migrant arrests at Mexico border

By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON – U.S. border officials are preparing for as many as 9,000 border arrests per day by the spring, according to two Department of Homeland Security officials, which would…

January 27, 2022

Now or never? European banks eye comeback against Wall Street

By Lawrence White and Iain Withers LONDON – Replenished firepower and higher interest rates will give Europe’s banks an ideal opportunity this year to reverse recent underperformance and claw back market share…

January 27, 2022

Philadelphia CBP Seizes Two Shipments of Dangerous Controlled Substances Destined to NY and Chicago

PHILADELPHIA – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers in Philadelphia seized two shipments of dangerous controlled substances – a date-rape precursor and an LSD-like hallucinogenic – on January 20 that arrived…

January 27, 2022

Federal Reserve Sticks To Rate Hike Schedule, Signals End To Asset Purchase Stimulus

The Federal Reserve will keep interest rates near zero, and it will begin its rate hike in mid-March, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday after the central bank’s two-day meeting. The…

January 27, 2022

Instant View: FOMC reaffirms March for taper end, and, maybe, rate hike

NEW YORK – The Federal Reserve on Wednesday signaled it is likely to raise U.S. interest rates in March and reaffirmed plans to end its bond purchases that month before launching a…

January 26, 2022

Rate traders see risk of more than four U.S. Fed hikes this year after hawkish Powell

– Hawkish comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday have led short-term interest rate traders to begin pricing for the possibility that the U.S. central bank could raise rates more…

January 26, 2022

Dollar rises to five-week high after Fed policy decision

By Herbert Lash NEW YORK – The dollar rose to a five-week high on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it is likely to raise U.S. interest rates in March as expected…

January 26, 2022

Brazil sees 2022 public debt as high as 6.4 tln reais, more floating rate debt

BRASILIA -Brazil’s outstanding public debt is expected to increase this year to a range between 6 trillion reais and 6.4 trillion reais, a rise of up to 14% on last year’s 5.614…

January 26, 2022

Synergy CEO says Restaurants not facing worker shortage, but wage shortage

Last year, we experienced The Great Resignation, which hit the hospitality industry especially hard. In November 2021, a record 4.5 million Americans quit their jobs — and 1 million of those were restaurant and hospitality…

January 26, 2022

Cuban peso in free fall against the dollar

By Marc Frank HAVANA – The Cuban peso was trading at nearly 100 to the dollar on the informal market Tuesday, according to a trader and online trackers, a depreciation of more…

January 26, 2022

IMF Projects Weaker Than Expected 2022 Economic Growth For US, China

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) cut its global economic growth forecast for 2022 on Tuesday, citing growing COVID-19 cases, supply chain bottlenecks and soaring inflation. The IMF now projects global gross domestic (GDP)…

January 26, 2022

Wall Street ends down as markets whipsaw ahead of Fed meeting

By Stephen Culp NEW YORK – U.S. stocks gyrated in afternoon trading to close lower with interest rate sensitive tech stocks weighing most heavily as uncertainties surrounding an increasingly hawkish Federal Reserve…

January 25, 2022

Thich Nhat Hanh, poetic peace activist and master of mindfulness, dies at 95

(This Jan. 22 story corrects to Princeton Theological Seminary from Princeton University in 12th paragraph) By James Pearson – Thich Nhat Hanh, the Zen Buddhist monk, poet and peace activist who in…

January 25, 2022

Hyundai Motor expects vehicle production to rebound in H1 as chip supply improves

By Heekyong Yang and Joyce Lee SEOUL -South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co forecast on Tuesday its vehicle production would rebound in the first half of this year as a global chip shortage…

January 25, 2022

Futures fall ahead of Fed meeting, corporate earnings

– U.S. stock index futures fell on Tuesday following a turbulent start to the week, with investors keeping an eye out for the Federal Reserve meeting and a host of major earnings…

January 25, 2022

Analysis-Baptism by fire awaits today’s rate-hike rookies

By Balazs Koranyi, Leika Kihara and Howard Schneider FRANKFURT/TOKYO/WASHINGTON – Today’s central bankers have the unenviable task of weaning a pandemic-hit global economy off cheap money amid unprecedented sovereign debt levels and…

January 25, 2022

Marketmind: Buy the dip? Or pray for Fed put?

A look at the day ahead from Sujata Rao. Bears are on the prowl in markets while a different sort menaces Europe’s eastern flank. It’s probably futile to expect the Russian bear…

January 25, 2022

Laredo CBP Officers Apprehend Two Fugitives Sought for Sexual Offenses

LAREDO, Texas – U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), officers at the Laredo Port of Entry, detained two male subjects wanted for sexual offenses in two separate, unrelated incidents. “Sexual violence can…

January 25, 2022

As lift-off looms, investors bet Bank of Canada will tame inflation

By Fergal Smith TORONTO – The Canadian bond market is coming to the view that expected multiple interest rate hikes in 2022 by the Bank of Canada, including one potentially this week,…

January 24, 2022

Yemen’s Houthis fail in second missile attack on UAE

By Alexander Cornwell, Alaa Swilam and Phil Stewart DUBAI -Yemen’s Houthi movement, aligned with Iran, launched a missile attack at the United Arab Emirates on Monday that targeted a base hosting the…

January 24, 2022

Wall Street stocks nosedive, small caps flirt with bear market signal

– The prospect of a Russian attack on Ukraine and worries about the Federal Reserve moving aggressively to tighten policy sent Wall Street into a tailspin on Monday, with the Nasdaq closing…

January 24, 2022

New Jersey offering up to $35,000 in financial mortgage assistance for struggling homeowners

TRENTON – Governor Philip D. Murphy and Lt. Governor Sheila Y. Oliver today announced the upcoming launch of the Emergency Rescue Mortgage Assistance Program (ERMA), administered by the New Jersey Housing and…

January 24, 2022

TAKE 5 $18K Top-Prize Winner Sold in Albany

ALBANY, NEW YORK – The New York Lottery today announced one top-prize winning ticket was sold for the January 23 TAKE 5 MIDDAY drawing. The ticket, worth $18,739.50, was purchased at HANNAFORD located at…

January 24, 2022

Fed tries to match economic risks against market’s rush to tighten

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve may not raise interest rates until March, but officials’ tougher language about inflation is already kicking in, with borrowing costs rising for everyone from…

January 24, 2022

Brazil’s sliding stock market makes M&A targets

By Carolina Mandl and Tatiana Bautzer SAO PAULO – A frenzy of talks for mergers and acquisitions has caught some Brazilian bankers off-guard in the early weeks of 2022. With the economy…

January 24, 2022

Central America - Page 166

U.S. preps for another record-breaking rise in migrant arrests at Mexico border

Now or never? European banks eye comeback against Wall Street

Philadelphia CBP Seizes Two Shipments of Dangerous Controlled Substances Destined to NY and Chicago

Federal Reserve Sticks To Rate Hike Schedule, Signals End To Asset Purchase Stimulus

Instant View: FOMC reaffirms March for taper end, and, maybe, rate hike

Rate traders see risk of more than four U.S. Fed hikes this year after hawkish Powell

Dollar rises to five-week high after Fed policy decision

Brazil sees 2022 public debt as high as 6.4 tln reais, more floating rate debt

Synergy CEO says Restaurants not facing worker shortage, but wage shortage

Cuban peso in free fall against the dollar

IMF Projects Weaker Than Expected 2022 Economic Growth For US, China

Wall Street ends down as markets whipsaw ahead of Fed meeting

Thich Nhat Hanh, poetic peace activist and master of mindfulness, dies at 95

Hyundai Motor expects vehicle production to rebound in H1 as chip supply improves

Futures fall ahead of Fed meeting, corporate earnings

Analysis-Baptism by fire awaits today’s rate-hike rookies

Marketmind: Buy the dip? Or pray for Fed put?

Laredo CBP Officers Apprehend Two Fugitives Sought for Sexual Offenses

As lift-off looms, investors bet Bank of Canada will tame inflation

Yemen’s Houthis fail in second missile attack on UAE

Wall Street stocks nosedive, small caps flirt with bear market signal

New Jersey offering up to $35,000 in financial mortgage assistance for struggling homeowners

TAKE 5 $18K Top-Prize Winner Sold in Albany

Fed tries to match economic risks against market’s rush to tighten

Brazil’s sliding stock market makes M&A targets

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