Ecuador’s Noboa wins VAT hike as legislators hit impasse
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa snatched a legislative victory on Friday after his bid to raise value added tax (VAT) …
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Australian prime minister raises prospect of early election over housing impasse
By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia could go to an election more than a year ahead of schedule as opposition parties threaten to block …
Analysis-Australian office landlords face price reckoning amid buyer impasse
By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s largest landlords have announced a string of downgrades to the values of their office block portfolios over the …
Marketmind: Debt impasse dominates in big day for politics
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland. Politics has the spotlight at the start of a new week, …
WTO members overcome impasse, appoint chairs for negotiations
GENEVA (Reuters) – World Trade Organization members have overcome a months-long impasse over who will chair ongoing negotiations to fix new global trade rules for …
Fed will face tough choices the longer debt ceiling impasse persists -analysts
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) – The standoff over the U.S. government’s borrowing limit is unlikely for now to crimp the Federal Reserve’s …
Unifor union, Bell Canada reach impasse on labor negotiations
(Reuters) – Talks between Canadian clerical workers and telecom services provider Bell Canada broke down after a week of negotiations, Unifor, the nation’s biggest private-sector …
US senators at impasse on bill to boost Ukraine sanctions, defense
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON – Democratic and Republican U.S. senators who have been negotiating for weeks on a bipartisan bill to punish Russia for its …