By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON – Stress on global supply chains worsened in April as coronavirus lockdown measures in China and the war in Ukraine lengthened delivery times, and air freight …
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LOS ANGELES – A closely watched transportation report on Thursday said “the prospect of freight recession is now considerable” as the spending shift from goods to services accelerates, inflation erodes …
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SANTIAGO – Chile’s IMACEC economic activity index, a close proxy of gross domestic product (GDP), rose 7.2% in March from the same month last year, the country’s central bank said …
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(Reuters) – MSCI’s emerging market eastern Europe equity index dropped as much as 1.2% in early trading on Wednesday after Russia cut gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria. This is …
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By Jihoon Lee and Yena Park SEOUL -South Korea’s finance minister will lobby for the country to be included in the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) developed market index when …
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By Bansari Mayur Kamdar – Canada’s benchmark index extended losses for a third straight session on Tuesday, as weakness in energy and metal prices due to rising COVID-19 cases in …
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By Alexander Schummer and Fergal Smith TORONTO – As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupts the global economy and drives up oil, gold and industrial metal prices, investors are embracing Canada’s …
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By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON – One-year U.S. inflation expectations have rocketed higher since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the longer-term outlook has begun increasing as well, a development likely to …
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LONDON – JPMorgan said there was no immediate impact from sanctions on Russia at the month-end rebalancing of its emerging market bond indexes. The indexes are key performance benchmarks for …
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LONDON – JPMorgan has said it may have to review plans to start including Ukraine government bonds in it influential GBI-Emerging Markets index at the end of the next month …
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TOKYO – An index measuring the prices Japanese firms charge each other for services hit a more than two-decade high in December, a sign inflationary pressure was building on rising …
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Inflation continues to soar throughout the U.S., with the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index increasing to the highest level in almost 42 years while consumer spending cools, the Bureau …
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The Producer Price Index (PPI), which measures inflation at the wholesale level, soared 9.6% year-over-year as of November, growing at the fastest rate ever measured, the U.S. Bureau of Labor …