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 maintain the country’s inflation goal…
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 signalled a stable local economy,…
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 U.S. dollar level, more than…
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 cited as a cause for…
‘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 significantly more jobs than anticipated…
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 economy in the current financial…
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan (BOJ) will likely maintain its yield curve control (YCC) policy until at least next year, three quarters of economists polled…
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, according to a Reuters poll…
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) – Economists have pushed back their expectations of when the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates and have raised their forecasts for inflation…
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 it harder to get a…
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 a level last seen in…
‘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 institutions deemed systemically important are…
By Hari Kishan BENGALURU (Reuters) – Persistently high inflation remains the biggest economic concern this year even as most central banks are at or near the end-game for rate rises,…
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, nearly 90% of economists polled…
ZURICH (Reuters) – A poll of Swiss economists found that nearly half think the takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS was not the best solution, warning the saga has dented…
By Ira Dugal MUMBAI (Reuters) – Twelve large Indian states, which have released their local budgets over the past few weeks and forecast aggressive spending growth in 2023-24, are likely…
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 economists warned in a report…
By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A team of influential economists has urged China to adopt a new development model based on “wellbeing” rather than GDP growth in order to…
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, economists at HSBC Securities and…
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 go higher still, according to…
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 in January, more than two…
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 states for a shortfall in…
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Japan (BOJ) Deputy Governor Masayoshi Amamiya, a close aide of incumbent chief Haruhiko Kuroda, is most likely to succeed him this spring,…
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 to estimates by the Venezuelan…
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 almost half the economists in…