Liberals are touting a new study linking climate change and inflation, but economists say that the real causes are more likely to be massive government …
By Indradip Ghosh and Prerana Bhat BENGALURU (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve will wait until the second quarter before cutting interest rates, according to …
(Reuters) – The U.S economy should avoid a recession in the coming year, according to an increasingly large majority of economists polled by the National …
By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) – Any prospects the Bank of Japan (BOJ) will end its negative interest rate policy this month have been extinguished, …
By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will begin to unwind its ultra-loose monetary settings as early as January, more than …
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve will cut rates more aggressively than markets are currently pricing in as a mild U.S. …
By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan will end its negative interest rate policy next year, more than 80% of economists in …
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve will hold off cutting rates until the fourth-quarter of next year, according to Goldman …
TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan will end its negative interest rate policy next year, according to nearly two-thirds of economists in a Reuters …
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan will end its negative interest rate policy next year, the majority of economists said in …
By Darya Korsunskaya and Alexander Marrow (Reuters) – Double-digit interest rates and the possibility of more hikes down the road have come at a bad …
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Economists have downgraded Singapore’s 2023 growth forecasts and inflation expectations, according to a survey by the country’s central bank published on Wednesday, …
By Kantaro Komiya and Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan will start downscaling its massive monetary easing only in a year’s time, …
By Vuyani Ndaba JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The South African Reserve Bank is likely to leave its repo rate unchanged this year before kicking off a …
By Prerana Bhat and Indradip Ghosh BENGALURU (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve is likely done raising interest rates, according to a strong majority of …
Biden’s ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ Did Nothing To Bring Down Inflation, Economists Agree Will Kessler on August 14, 2023 The Inflation Reduction Act did nothing to …
By Prerana Bhat BENGALURU (Reuters) – The European Central Bank will pause a more than year-long rate-hiking campaign in September, according to a narrow majority …
By Devayani Sathyan BENGALURU (Reuters) – Australia’s central bank will raise interest rates by 25 basis points next quarter in their last hike of the …
‘Bidenomics’ Is Driving The Trucking Industry Off The Road, Economists Say Will Kessler on August 2, 2023 The trucking industry is hurting following union deals …
By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan will hold steady its policy including its yield control scheme at next week’s meeting, more …
‘Catastrophic’: Biden’s Policies Put US Dollar’s Global Dominance At Risk, Economists Say Jason Cohen on July 16, 2023 The policies of President Joe Biden’s administration …
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s central bank held the cash rate steady at 5.5% on Wednesday, hitting pause as expected and flagging …
Economists Warn of Coming ‘Recession’ Due To This Overlooked Warning Sign In Latest Jobs Report Will Kessler on July 11, 2023 Experts are sounding the …
MUMBAI (Reuters) – A steeper-than-expected surge in the prices of vegetables, especially tomatoes, over the past few weeks could push India’s retail inflation towards 5.5% …
By Devayani Sathyan BENGALURU (Reuters) – Australia’s central bank will likely deliver a 25 basis point interest rate increase on Aug. 1 following a pause …
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Private economists in Brazil anticipate deeper monetary easing this year and improved inflation prospects until 2026 following the government’s decision to …
By Ira Dugal MUMBAI (Reuters) – A sequential increase in merchandise imports in May that led to the trade deficit widening to a five-month high …
By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government and central bank will act to stop the yen’s decline if it depreciates to the 145 per …
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian economists have reduced their long-term inflation expectations, putting an end to months of unchanged projections that the central bank had …
‘That’s Not The Whole Story’: Seemingly Rosy Jobs Report Reveals Worrying Workforce Trends, Economists Say Jason Cohen on June 3, 2023 The U.S. economy added …
By Ira Dugal MUMBAI (Reuters) – A surge in investments that offset sluggish consumption to boost India’s growth in 2022-23 is expected to power the …
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will likely maintain its yield curve control (YCC) policy until at least next year, …
By Vivek Mishra and Shaloo Shrivastava BENGALURU (Reuters) – India’s economy will grow about 6% this fiscal year with a small increase in private investment, …
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) – Economists have pushed back their expectations of when the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates and have …
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Fraudulent filings for state unemployment insurance aid in Massachusetts could be distorting U.S. weekly unemployment claims data, economists warned on Wednesday, making …
MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s headline retail inflation in May is likely to fall further towards 4% — the midpoint of the central bank’s target and …
‘Asleep At The Wheel’: ‘Too-Big-To-Fail’ Banks Are Getting Even Bigger And Economists Are Sounding The Alarm Jason Cohen on May 7, 2023 The largest financial …
By Hari Kishan BENGALURU (Reuters) – Persistently high inflation remains the biggest economic concern this year even as most central banks are at or near …
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan’s new chief Kazuo Ueda will not start unwinding its ultra-easy policy at April 27-28 meeting, …
ZURICH (Reuters) – A poll of Swiss economists found that nearly half think the takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS was not the best solution, …
By Ira Dugal MUMBAI (Reuters) – Twelve large Indian states, which have released their local budgets over the past few weeks and forecast aggressive spending …
By Nancy Lapid (Reuters) – The cost of expanding U.S. Medicare prescription drug coverage to pay for expensive, new obesity medications could be catastrophic, health …
By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A team of influential economists has urged China to adopt a new development model based on “wellbeing” rather than …
MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Indian economy could see another bout of inflation as the rural demand revives and the informal sector recovers from the pandemic-lows, …
By Indradip Ghosh BENGALURU (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve will raise interest rates at least twice more in coming months, with the risk they …
Jobs Market Runs Red Hot In January, But Economists Fear Downturn Is Coming John Hugh DeMastri on February 3, 2023 The U.S. added 517,000 jobs …
MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s central government’s gross market borrowings for 2023/24 could come in below market expectations as a pool of securities raised to compensate …
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Japan (BOJ) Deputy Governor Masayoshi Amamiya, a close aide of incumbent chief Haruhiko Kuroda, is most likely …
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan consumer prices rose at a sharp 37.2% clip in December from November, heightening the risk of a return to hyperinflation, according …
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) could unwind its ultra-loose monetary policy between March and October next year, according to …