New Jersey Senators Kim, Booker Vote to Keep Free Healthcare for Undocumented Non-Citizens
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Thanks to votes by New Jersey’s two Democrat senators, undocumented migrants can keep their free federally funded healthcare plans. On June 30, Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Andy Kim…
IFC to keep pace of investments in Brazil with environmental focus
SAO PAULO – The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank’s private-sector arm, is expected to maintain the pace of its environment-focused investments in Brazil regardless of the outcome of the country’s…
Brazil should keep inflation targets despite shocks, says central bank nominee
BRASILIA – Diogo Guillen, who was nominated to the board of Brazil’s central bank, said on Tuesday that it seems appropriate to keep the government’s current inflation targets despite recent price shocks,…
Scholz, Biden and allies agree to keep pushing for Russian ceasefire – German govt
BERLIN – The leaders of Germany, the United States, France, Britain and Italy agreed in a phone call on Tuesday afternoon to keep pushing Russia for a ceasefire and for the withdrawal…
Bank of Thailand to keep steady policy hand as growth trumps inflation – Reuters poll
By Md Manzer Hussain BENGALURU – Thailand’s central bank will not raise interest rates from a record low for more than a year in a bid to support an economy still struggling…
Kim says N.Korea will keep developing ‘formidable striking capabilities’ – KCNA
By Josh Smith SEOUL -North Korea will continue to develop “formidable striking capabilities” that cannot be bartered or sold for anything, leader Kim Jong Un said, according to state media on Monday,…
GM workers in northern Mexico vote to keep union contract
MEXICO CITY – General Motors Co workers in northern Mexico have voted by a broad margin to keep their collective contract with one of Mexico’s biggest unions, weeks after GM workers in…
A month into war, communicator-in-chief Zelenskiy strives to keep eyes on Ukraine
By Matthias Williams, Margaryta Chornokondratenko and Stephen Farrell LONDON/LVIV, Ukraine – The props were simple, the message was clear. In a video address to the nation this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy…
These GOP Governors Blocked Efforts To Keep Biological Men From Dominating Women’s Sports
These GOP Governors Blocked Efforts To Keep Biological Men From Dominating Women’s Sports Laurel Duggan on March 23, 2022 Republican governors of Indiana and Utah vetoed legislation Monday and Tuesday, respectively, that…
ECB should keep 2022 rate hike on agenda, if inflation warrants it -Nagel
FRANKFURT – The European Central Bank should continue to normalize policy and raise interest rates, possibly as soon as this year, if the inflation outlook warrants it, Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said…
Parents up in arms against an Ontario school board’s move to keep masks on
By Alexander Schummer TORONTO – As students in Canada’s most populous province return to mask-free classes after two years on Monday, one Ontario school board is facing backlash for defying the province’s…
Investors keep out of European stocks, flock to U.S. – BofA
LONDON – Investors pulled money out of European equities for a fifth week in a row and flocked to U.S. equities as the Russian invasion of Ukraine weighed on the continent’s bourses,…
China’s factories opt for isolation bubbles to beat COVID curbs and keep running
By Josh Horwitz and Martin Quin Pollard SHANGHAI/BEIJING – To keep factory lines open in the face of COVID curbs Chinese firms are asking workers to eat, sleep and work in bubbles…
Tesla says it is trying to keep production going at Shanghai factory
SHANGHAI – Tesla said on Thursday it was doing its best to keep production going at its Shanghai factory while it cooperates with China’s COVID-19 prevention measures. Reuters reported on Wednesday that…
Japan will work with G7 to keep Russia from tapping IMF loans-PM Kishida
TOKYO – Japan will work closely with G7 advanced economies to prevent Russia from tapping loans from the International Monetary Fund and other international lenders, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Wednesday.…
U.S. banks will keep a toe in Russia despite wind-downs
By Matt Scuffham and David Henry NEW YORK – Several of Wall Street’s biggest banks are planning on keeping a limited presence and holding on to banking licenses in Russia for the…
Weak growth, inflation to keep BOJ an outlier with dovish policy tone
By Leika Kihara TOKYO – The Bank of Japan is set to keep monetary policy ultra-loose on Friday and warn of heightening economic risks from the Ukraine crisis, unfazed by prospects of…
EU members should keep budgets ‘reactive’ over Ukraine crisis – France
PARIS – EU governments need to keep their fiscal stances “reactive” in the face of the current Ukraine crisis with targetted measures for households and firms, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire.…
AT&T, One America News to keep ad deal even after DirecTV drops network
By John Shiffman WASHINGTON – AT&T’s financial relationship with One America News is deeper than previously known and will continue even after DirecTV drops the far-right network from its satellite service next…
UK house prices keep on rising despite squeezed budgets: RICS
By Andy Bruce LONDON – House price growth in Britain hit a new eight-month high in February as the housing market showed little sign of losing momentum amid a growing cost-of-living squeeze,…
Russia to keep stock market trading largely suspended on Wednesday
– Russia’s central bank has decided to keep stock market trading on the Moscow Exchange largely suspended again on Wednesday, keeping only a limited range of operations, it said in a statement…
German house price rally to slow but cheap money to keep it running
By Zuzanna Szymanska and Jonathan Cable BERLIN/LONDON – Home prices in Germany’s booming property market look set to rise sharply again in 2022 and, while the pace will ease in coming years,…
U.S. shale oil forecasts keep rising as smaller producers lead the way
By Liz Hampton – Publicly traded U.S. shale firms are not budging on production restraint vows as oil markets surge amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, leaving smaller producers to lead output gains…
Elon Musk Delivers Starlink Satellite Internet To Keep Ukraine Online
Elon Musk’s SpaceX delivered terminals for Starlink satellite internet to Ukraine in order to help its citizens stay online during Russia’s invasion of the country, a Ukrainian official confirmed Monday. “Starlink —…
Explainer-Could Germany keep its nuclear plants running?
By Christoph Steitz and Markus Wacket FRANKFURT – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and economy minister Robert Habeck on Sunday mapped out potentially radical changes to the country’s energy system, going as far…
Exclusive-ECB must keep buying bonds to cushion Ukraine fallout, Stournaras says
By Francesco Canepa and Balazs Koranyi FRANKFURT – The European Central Bank should continue its bond-buying stimulus programme at least until the end of the year and keep it open-ended to cushion…
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