Analysis: ECB faces Italian debt test as politics intervenes
By Francesco Canepa and Giselda Vagnoni FRANKFURT/ROME – The European Central Bank seems almost certain to face a test of its resolve to rein in excessive bond yields in coming…
By Francesco Canepa and Giselda Vagnoni FRANKFURT/ROME – The European Central Bank seems almost certain to face a test of its resolve to rein in excessive bond yields in coming…
By Tarek Amara and Angus McDowall TUNIS – By ramming through his new constitution, President Kais Saied has cemented his role as master of Tunisia, heralding a new political era…
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON – Ahead of a crucial midterm election, U.S. President Joe Biden is leaning heavily on one man, moderate Republican and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, to…
By Clare Jim HONG KONG – A revolt by Chinese homebuyers, who have threatened to stop paying mortgages on hundreds of unfinished housing projects, is spurring a shakeout among cash-starved…
ANALYSIS: Here’s Why The Media’s Abortion Narrative On IVF Is Total Nonsense Laurel Duggan on July 13, 2022 Media outlets stirred fears that new abortion restrictions following the overturning of…
By Lisandra Paraguassu and Gram Slattery BRASILIA – The shooting over the weekend of an official in Brazil’s leftist Workers’ Party (PT) by a supporter of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro…
GOP Set To Win Massive Majority In House, Analysis Finds Carl DeMarco on July 11, 2022 Republicans are expected to take control of the House of Representatives with a potentially…
By Tim Kelly and Yukiko Toyoda NARA, Japan – After a strong showing in an election overshadowed by the killing of former premier Shinzo Abe, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida…
By Davide Barbuscia and Karin Strohecker NEW YORK – Investors hit by Russia’s debt default may have to settle some of their positions privately if the U.S. Treasury does not…
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE – Top liquefied natural gas exporter Australia is in the depths of a power crunch just as traditional buyers are scrambling to meet shortfalls of Russian…
By Yoruk Bahceli, Saikat Chatterjee and Tommy Wilkes LONDON – From Silicon Valley shares to U.S. and European government bonds, securities that are already under heavy pressure stand to lose…
By David Randall NEW YORK – Sky-high oil prices pose yet another obstacle to U.S. corporate earnings, and some on Wall Street are worried this could sink stock prices even…
By Gavin Jones ROME – Diana Parini left her waitressing job at an Italian Alpine resort last month because she was fed up with the pay and conditions: eight euros…
By Oliver Griffin BOGOTA – Colombia’s leftist firebrand presidential candidate Gustavo Petro is too close in recent polls for the comfort of oil companies and miners who worry that his…
By Stephen Nellis and Joseph White (Reuters) – Apple Inc wants to power the dashboard of your next car, but first it must convince automakers they will not end up…
By Ted Hesson, Daina Beth Solomon and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON – More than a year into U.S. President Joe Biden’s sweeping effort to tackle the “root causes” of migration with…
By Min Zhang and Gavin Maguire BEIJING/SINGAPORE – China’s army of metal processors and traders has flipped from buyers to sellers amid a sharp downshift in economic activity in the…
(Reuters) – Russia has little to gain from agreeing to a U.N. proposal that it unblock Ukraine’s grain exports via the Black Sea in exchange for the freeing of Russian…
By Daren Butler, Jonathan Spicer and Maya Gebeily ISTANBUL – President Tayyip Erdogan’s pledge to launch military operations soon to expand safe zones already set up across Turkey’s southern borders…
Over Half The Country At Risk Of ‘Energy Emergencies’ This Summer, Electric Grid Analysis Shows Thomas Catenacci on May 19, 2022 Millions of Americans across the Midwest, Southwest and West…
By Pamela Barbaglia and Yoruk Bahceli LONDON – European dealmakers are struggling to finance corporate takeovers as concern that the region’s economies may dip into recession is prompting debt investors…
By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK – U.S. loans have outperformed other debt instruments this year because of the protection they offer from rising interest rates, but a sharp deterioration in…
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK – A surprising lack of panic in the U.S. stock market as measured by Wall Street’s “fear gauge” is keeping some investors from calling…
By Dhara Ranasinghe, Saikat Chatterjee and Davide Barbuscia LONDON/NEW YORK – Traders in the world’s largest markets are having to navigate wild intra-day swings and shrinking deal sizes as central…
By Huw Jones LONDON – Blockchain needs its own music industry ‘MP3’ moment as fragmented regulation and technology hamper the development of a digital securities industry that could help realise…