BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government needs to talk about fiscal measures for the 2024 budget to stimulate the economy, Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Tuesday. “We will have…
By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) – Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Saturday that fiscal responsibility was crucial but that spending to improve the country’s economy and…
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Treasury on Monday presented a proposal for a new fiscal anchor that aims to replace three rules currently in force with just one, which limits the…
By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) – While households struggle to cope with rocketing prices, the inflation spike is good for the taxman because it means there are simply more revenues…
BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil’s central bank chief Roberto Campos Neto emphatically defended the need for fiscal balance on Friday, following statements by leftist President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that soured…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Fiscal and social concerns should be given equal weight in the running of Brazil’s economy, the chief executive of bank Itau Unibanco said on Friday, referring…
By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund will continue to be supportive of progressive tax reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean while fiscal and monetary…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Income derived from hydrocarbon exploration and production in Colombia is key to the country’s financial stability and its trade balance, its fiscal rule committee said on Monday,…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Income derived from hydrocarbon exploration and production in Colombia is key to the country’s financial stability and its trade balance, its fiscal rule committee said on Monday,…
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s federal fiscal deficit in the first half of the financial year through September rose to 6.20 trillion rupees ($74.91 billion) from 5.27 trillion a year…
By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s Liberal-led government will keep its powder dry when it unveils a fiscal update next month, and though it could contain additional targeted spending,…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s fiscal revenue growth picked up pace in September from a month earlier, according to Reuters calculations based on official data on Tuesday, but declining government land…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s improved fiscal outcomes from a strong economy and high commodity prices underpin its AAA sovereign rating, S&P Global said on Tuesday, after the new labour government…
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Fiscal responsibility will not be negotiable if leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wins next Sunday’s presidential runoff vote, Lula’s running mate Geraldo Alckmin said on…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday applauded the new British finance minister’s decision to scrap most of a proposed debt-financed fiscal package, saying this signaled a commitment to…
LONDON (Reuters) – New British finance minister Jeremy Hunt will announce tax and spending measures on Monday, two weeks earlier than previously scheduled, the finance ministry said as Hunt tries…
By Ellen Zhang and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) – By any account, $1 trillion seems huge. That’s the scale of budget shortfalls facing Chinese provinces, reducing their fiscal firepower to…
By Alistair Smout and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) – He was one of her closest friends and supporters, but Prime Minister Liz Truss sacked Britain’s first Black finance minister Kwasi…
(Reuters) – UK’s main indexes jumped on Friday, on growing expectations that the UK government will announce a U-turn on elements of its 43-billion-pound package of unfunded tax cuts that…
By William Schomberg and David Lawder LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -British finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng cut short his trip to Washington for this week’s global finance minister meetings and has headed back…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The European Central Bank should keep raising interest rates quickly, and expansive fiscal policy around the 19-country euro zone is raising the risk the bank will have…
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rising debt levels and mounting fiscal pressures underscore the urgency for more “orderly debt restructuring” efforts to put low-income countries on a more sustainable…
By Bernardo Caram BRASILIA (Reuters) – Both of Brazil’s presidential candidates, President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, have proposed changes to the constitutional spending limit…
By Jan Strupczewski (Reuters) – The ongoing reform of EU fiscal rules could give governments more leeway in plans that combine debt cuts with investment and reforms, in exchange for…
By Bernardo Caram BRASILIA (Reuters) – Both of Brazil’s presidential candidates, President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, have proposed changes to the constitutional spending limit…