March

By Indradip Ghosh BENGALURU (Reuters) – The Swiss National Bank will hike its key policy rate by 50 basis points on Thursday, matching the European Central Bank’s move last week, …

By Anant Chandak BENGALURU (Reuters) – The Philippine central bank will hike its main interest rate by a modest 25 basis points on Thursday, followed by another next quarter, making …

By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) – U.S. crude exports to Europe have hit a record 2.1 million barrels per day on average so far this month, spurred by wide discounts …

By Vuyani Ndaba JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s Reserve Bank will raise interest rates for the last time in this cycle by 25 basis points on March 30, in anticipation …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top regulatory officials for the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation will testify before a House panel on March 29 to discuss the recent failures …

By Summer Zhen, Nell Mackenzie and Yoruk Bahceli LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Trend-following and macro hedge funds have been badly wrong-footed in a week of wild market gyrations and are …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. consumer sentiment fell for the first time four months in March, though households expected inflation to subside over the next 12 months and beyond, a survey …

(Reuters) – Global money market and government bond funds obtained massive weekly inflows as investors rushed to safer assets on fears of contagion from the collapse of three U.S. banks …

By Prerana Bhat and Indradip Ghosh BENGALURU (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve will raise interest rates by 25 basis points on March 22 despite recent banking sector turmoil, according …

By Valentine Hilaire and Noe Torres MERIDA, Mexico (Reuters) – The Mexican arm of Spain’s Banco Santander plans to launch digital lender Openbank by the end of March 2024 to …

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Long-term inflation expectations among financial and business groups in Sweden fell in March, a poll commissioned by the central bank showed on Thursday. Inflation measured with a …

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian consumer sentiment stayed stuck at historically depressed levels in March amid concerns over inflation and interest rates, a survey showed on Tuesday, with the appetite for …

(Reuters) – Goldman Sachs’ analysts on Sunday said they no longer expect the U.S. Federal Reserve to deliver a rate hike at its March 22 meeting with considerable uncertainty about …

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s federal government will present its budget for fiscal year 2023-24 on March 28, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Friday. “Our government is focused on the …

By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Wednesday that officials have not yet made a call on the size of the rate increase …

LONDON (Reuters) – British investors on Wednesday fully priced in a 0.25 percentage point increase in Bank of England interest rates at its March meeting, after the U.S. Federal Reserve …

By Sujith Pai BENGALURU (Reuters) – The Reserve Bank of Australia will hike its interest rate again by 25 basis points to 3.60% on Tuesday, followed by one more lift …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co said Thursday it will restart production of its F-150 Lightning on March 13 after it halted output of the electric truck …

(Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will testify on the U.S. central bank’s semiannual monetary policy report to the House Financial Services Committee on March 8 at 10 a.m. …

Wildwoods, NJ – Brides to be will drag their fiance’s to the Jersey Shore in two weeks to attend one of the biggest wedding extravaganzas on the east coast and …

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan If there were still doubts about a re-acceleration of the world economy into 2023, China’s February …

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank may need significant rate hikes beyond March and should accelerate the rundown of its oversized bond portfolio to fight stubbornly high inflation, Bundesbank …

By Naomi Rovnick and Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON (Reuters) – March madness? After a euphoric January was followed by a somber February, with bonds and equities selling off as strong data …

By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong will drop its COVID-19 mask mandate, chief executive John Lee said on Tuesday, in a move to lure back visitors and business …