Manchester, NJ – A major mixed-use development featuring a large daycare center, residential units, and retail space is moving ahead in Manchester Township after a recent planning board hearing advanced the proposal.…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Thursday the government will continue to take appropriate steps against excessive currency market volatility. “We absolutely cannot tolerate excessively volatile moves driven…
By Leika Kihara WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Japan’s top currency diplomat Masato Kanda on Friday said authorities are ready to take decisive action in the currency market if excessive moves in the yen continue.…
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan would decide appropriately on whether to intervene to stem any excess yen weakening, a senior lawmaker in the country’s ruling coalition party said on Friday, as the Japanese…
BLACKWOOD, NJ – The annual Blackwood Pumpkin Festival of laughs or Township has been postponed to next weekend after the arrival of remnants of Hurricane Ian in the region. “Due to the…
By Oliver Hirt ZURICH (Reuters) – U.S. investment bank JP Morgan’s head of Switzerland, Nick Bossart, is moving to Rothschild & Co to lead its Swiss advisory business for mergers and capital…
By Hadeel Al Sayegh DUBAI (Reuters) – Bank of America (BofA) is moving some of its Russia-based bankers to Dubai, two sources told Reuters, following a move by several Western banks this…
WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today intervened in a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by individuals with mobility disabilities against the City of San Juan, Puerto Rico under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504…
By Hongji Kim and Joyce Lee GYEONGJU, South Korea (Reuters) – Hwang Bun-hee, 74, lives in a pink house near the sea surrounded by a riotous vegetable garden and sounds of birds…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s Petrobras said on Monday it had started the binding phase of selling its fertilizer project UFN-III, inviting potential buyers to bid on the plant. The sale comes…
By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s new prison lodgings may be less than an hour’s drive from his mansion in Kuala Lumpur’s affluent Bukit Tunku…
By Timothy Aeppel (Reuters) – Business investment appears to be an early victim of red-hot U.S. inflation and rising interest rates. Nonresidential fixed investment, which is how the Commerce Department lumps together…
By Takaya Yamaguchi and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO – Japan has included measures to respond to currency moves as items for consideration in its fiscal 2023 budget to be drawn up late this…
By Katanga Johnson and Michelle Price WASHINGTON – The top U.S. consumer watchdog plans to scrutinize the use of cryptocurrencies for real-time payments and ramp up oversight of Big Tech companies as…
LAKEWOOD, NJ – From the 1960s until 2000, the Lakewood roller rink provided an entertainment outlet for teens, adults and families through the roaring disco era and well beyond the 80s when…
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO -Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki warned on Friday against “speculative moves” seen behind a rapid yen weakening, using the strongest wording to the day as the yen weakened…
OTTAWA – The Bank of Canada hiked its policy rate to 2.5% on Wednesday from 1.5%, a surprise 100-basis-point move and its largest increase since August 1998. Here is a timeline of…
LONDON – Britain’s Boris Johnson and his wife, Carrie, are changing the location of a planned wedding party, an ally of the prime minister said on Friday, denying allegations that he was…
JACKSON TOWNSHIP, NJ – According to Jackson Township Business Administrator Terrance Wall, not everyone in town is following the rules when it comes to filing proper permits to perform construction services at…
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY – Uber Technologies Inc and Australia’s main transport union agreed on Tuesday to back a federal body that enforces minimum pay for the company’s drivers, joining a global…
TOKYO -Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Tuesday he was concerned about recent sharp yen weakening and would appropriately respond to exchange market moves if necessary, repeating a warning as the…
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY – Australia’s biggest building materials manufacturers are cutting back operations, hiking prices and considering moving production offshore to manage a spike in power and gas bills, adding to…
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON – Eroding inflation data and fast-changing views in financial markets on Monday have opened the door to a larger-than-expected three-quarter-percentage point interest rate increase when Federal Reserve officials…
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Treasury Department has made clear that gold-related transactions involving Russia may be sanctioned, and is closely monitoring any efforts to circumvent U.S. sanctions through the use of gold,…
By Fergal Smith TORONTO – The Canadian dollar will gain ground over the coming year as high commodity prices bolster Canada’s economic outlook and the Bank of Canada likely continues to raise…
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Wednesday nominated three women to serve as appellate judges including Florence Pan, who would succeed U.S. Supreme Court-designate Ketanji Brown Jackson on the influential…