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By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A 45-day stopgap measure passed by the U.S. Congress to avert a government shutdown has left potential funding shortfalls for strategic Pacific island states, …

By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) – The Portuguese government will end the year with a budget surplus, its second in almost five decades, compared with a deficit equivalent to 0.4% …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday it believed a decision by U.S. Congress to pass a stopgap funding bill that omitted aid for Ukraine was a temporary setback …

By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) estimated on Thursday that there was a 90% chance that public borrowing in four years’ time would be …

By Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) – Italy sees its 2023 budget deficit overshooting at around 5.5% of gross domestic product (GDP) from the current 4.5% target, sources told Reuters, pushed …

By Yoruk Bahceli and Carolyn Cohn LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s pensions industry, Europe’s biggest, is posing a new challenge to the country’s 2 trillion pound ($2.5 trillion) government bond market …

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s parliament on Thursday passed President Joko Widodo’s 3,325.1 trillion rupiah ($216.06 billion) budget for 2024, his final year in office, with a fiscal deficit of 2.29% …

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s debt has grown since 2019 due to the pandemic and the war in Ukraine but the pattern will change this year, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner …

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s government on Tuesday predicted a larger budget deficit but better-than-expected economic conditions in the year ahead, as it updated forecasts heading into …

LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt will focus his Nov. 22 budget update on reducing inflation and does not expect forecasts to show the government has extra money …

By Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) – The European Commission on Monday cut its forecasts for the Italian economy this year and next, following a slew of weak data which limits …

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said on Monday that Turkey’s government would seek further revenues outside the budget, including from privatisation, and that quantative tightening will be carried …

NYC Announces Budget Cuts After Mayor Says Migrant Crisis ‘Will Destroy’ Big Apple Jake Smith on September 9, 2023 New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced a 5% budget cut …

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s top central bank officials on Friday praised the government’s commitment to eliminate the primary deficit in its 2024 budget, saying fiscal improvement is vital for aligning …

PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech Finance Ministry has proposed a 2024 central state budget with a 252 billion crown ($11.36 billion) deficit, according to a draft of the legislation sent …

By Jihoon Lee SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s government plans to raise budget spending to nearly $497 billion for 2024, but the proposed increase is the smallest in two decades …

WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland plans to raise spending on defence, health, social benefits and public sector pay in 2024, the prime minister said on Thursday, after the government approved the …

By Alexander Marrow and Elena Fabrichnaya MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia effectively abandoned its budget rule on Wednesday as the central bank said it would stop conducting finance ministry foreign currency …

By Bernardo Caram and Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) – Delays and disappointments on revenue-boosting measures have made it harder for Brazil’s government to balance its budget and erase a primary …

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government on Saturday presented a budget proposal worth 502.6 trillion pesos ($127.8 billion) for 2024 to Congress, 19% greater than this year, the Finance Ministry said, …