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By Antonella Cinelli and Valentina Consiglio ROME (Reuters) – Italy posted firm economic growth of 3.7% last year but the budget deficit far exceeded official forecasts due to the cost …

By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt may have a 30 billion-pound ($36 billion) windfall at next month’s budget, but this will be too short-lived to …

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s central government posted a better-than-expected primary budget surplus in January on the back of record tax revenues, Treasury data showed on Monday, although the outlook for …

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada recorded a C$5.54 billion ($4.06 billion) budget deficit for the first nine months of the 2022/23 fiscal year, partly due to a rise in debt charges …

BERLIN (Reuters) – Lower revenues from oil and gas exports will significantly widen Russia’s budget shortfall this year, according to an analysis from the European ratings agency Scope obtained by …

By Patricia Zengerle and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. congressional efforts to counter China’s military threats toward Taiwan could stumble over a problem much closer to home: partisan battles …

By Jessie Pang and Donny Kwok HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong is under pressure to rein in spending when it unveils its annual budget on Wednesday, after racking up …

By Christian Kraemer and Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) – German Finance Minister Christian Lindner considers the budget demands made by his government coalition partners to be excessive and “simply unrealistic”, …

By Darya Korsunskaya and Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s finance ministry is sticking with plans to post a budget deficit of no more than 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) …

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Republicans on U.S. congressional foreign affairs and armed services committees pressed Democratic President Joe Biden on Thursday to include $2 billion in …

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government is expected to hike its 2023 budget by some 23 trillion Colombian pesos ($4.71 billion) in a proposal to be sent to Congress Friday, the …

Republicans Vow To Cut Wokeness From Defense Budget Micaela Burrow on February 8, 2023 Republican members of Congress vowed to slash funding for “woke” priorities from the defense budget in …

Dem-Led City Reports Highest Violent Crime Rate In 15 Years After Slashing Police Budget Trevor Schakohl on February 7, 2023 Seattle’s violent crime rate rose to its highest point in …

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s finance ministry has tweaked its spending and budget deficit estimates for the current fiscal year that ends in June to show a slight increase in overall …

PARIS (Reuters) – French oil giant TotalEnergies said on Thursday that it would raise by 15% the budget allocated to bonuses for some of its staff in France in view …

OTTAWA, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Canada recorded a C$3.55 billion ($2.67 billion) budget deficit for the first eight months of the 2022/23 fiscal year, partly due to higher debt charges, …

By Clara Denina LONDON (Reuters) – Mongolia has asked Rio Tinto, its partner in the huge Oyu Tolgoi copper and gold mine in the Gobi desert, not to further increase …

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said on Wednesday that it plans to release its 2023 baseline budget and economic forecast on Feb. 15, along …

By Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The Indian government will present a budget on Feb. 1 that will likely put deficit reduction ahead of vote-winning spending, even as Prime …

By Shubham Batra and Aftab Ahmed (Reuters) – India is likely to peg its nominal gross domestic product (GDP) growth at around 11% in the annual budget next week, marking …

By Darya Korsunskaya MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia is becoming too dependent on oil revenues to support its budget as it ramps up military spending, economists said, warning that the government may …