QUEENS, N.Y. — A 16-year-old from St. Albans has been charged with second-degree murder for allegedly fatally shooting another teen in broad daylight after both exited an MTA bus in Jamaica on…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s wholesale prices rose 7.2% in March from a year earlier, with the pace of increase slowing for the third straight month, data showed on Wednesday, offering some relief…
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s annual urban consumer inflation rate in March climbed to 32.7% year-on-year, just shy of an all-time record, from 31.9% in February, data from the country’s statistics agency CAPMAS…
By Gabriel Burin (Reuters) – Brazil’s inflation likely stayed high in March on rising gasoline bills, reigniting cost of living problems in the country’s stagnant economy and probably stoking more disagreement over…
(Reuters) – Mexican automotive production and exports rose in March from the same month a year earlier, data from the national statistics agency (INEGI) showed on Monday. Production increased by 13.12% to…
NEW YORK, NY – The New York City Police Department is appealing to the public for help in identifying individuals in connection with a robbery that took place within the confines of…
By Steven Grattan SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose 14% in March from the previous year, preliminary official data showed on Friday, highlighting the continued challenges for the…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. economy continued to churn out jobs at a brisk pace in March, pushing the unemployment rate down to 3.5%, signs of persistent labor market tightness that…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s new yuan loans are expected to rebound in March from a sharp drop in February, a Reuters poll showed, as the central bank keeps policy accommodative to support…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s foreign exchange reserves rose in March, official data showed on Friday, as the dollar fell against other major currencies. The country’s foreign exchange reserves – the world’s largest…
ROME (Reuters) – The United Nations food agency’s world price index fell in March for a 12th consecutive month, and is now down 20.5% from a record high hit one year ago…
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) – International supply chain stress continued to ease last month, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said on Thursday, in data that suggests at…
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian economic activity expanded at a faster pace in March as employment and inventories both climbed, Ivey Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) data showed on Thursday. The seasonally adjusted index…
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s economy gained a net 34,700 jobs in March, both in full-time and part-time work and ahead of analyst forecasts, Statistics Canada data showed on Thursday. The jobless rate…
By Carolina Mandl and Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) -Big market swings in March sparked by a banking crisis hurt some hedge fund returns with global macro firm Rokos Capital Management reporting…
NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Authorities in Newport News, are requesting the public’s assistance in solving a recent homicide that occurred on March 24, 2023. Officers were alerted to the sound of gunshots…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. services sector slowed more than expected in March as demand cooled, while a measure of prices paid by services businesses fell to the lowest in nearly three…
TORONTO (Reuters) – Greater Toronto Area (GTA) home prices increased in March from February, with listings falling at a faster rate than did sales in comparison to a year ago, in the…
BERLIN (Reuters) – German services sector activity grew in March at the fastest pace since last May as demand strengthened and spurred job creation, a business survey showed on Wednesday. S&P Global’s…
(Reuters) – Short sellers made a whopping $848 million in paper profit by betting against beleaguered First Republic Bank in March, financial data company Ortex said on Tuesday, making it the most…
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil posted the highest trade surplus ever recorded for March, driven by solid oil sales, according to government data on Monday. The trade balance was positive at $10.956 billion…
By Marianna Parraga HOUSTON (Reuters) – U.S. producers of liquefied natural gas (LNG) last month regained momentum as the country’s second-largest exporter Freeport LNG ramped up output, sending total shipments to an…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s annual inflation likely slowed in March for the second straight month, but still remained above the official target, a Reuters poll showed Monday, fueling bets that the…
By Karin Strohecker and Vincent Flasseur LONDON (Reuters) – The pace of interest rate hikes by major developed and emerging market central banks continued at a healthy clip in March though the…
LONDON (Reuters) – Activity at struggling factories across the euro zone fell further last month as consumers feeling the pinch from rising living costs cut back, according to a survey which did…
BERLIN (Reuters) – German manufacturing activity shrank in March at the fastest pace in almost three years, a survey showed on Monday. S&P Global’s final Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for manufacturing, which…