Fed’s George puts neutral rate of around 2.5% “as a starting point”
WASHINGTON – Kansas City Fed president Esther George said she estimates a neutral rate of interest for the U.S. at about 2.5% “as a starting point” of what the Fed…
WASHINGTON – Kansas City Fed president Esther George said she estimates a neutral rate of interest for the U.S. at about 2.5% “as a starting point” of what the Fed…
AMSTERDAM – Facebook owner Meta said on Tuesday it was suspending plans to build a giant data centre in the Netherlands, following political opposition. The move comes a week after…
(Reuters) – The potential for significant wildfires fueled by parched vegetation in parts of Texas and the U.S. Plains put the region on high alert on Tuesday as gusty winds…
ROME – Italy’s Pirelli said on Thursday it had halted investments in Russia, excluding those linked to security, and that the activity of its factories in the country would be…
By Patturaja Murugaboopathy and Simon Jessop LONDON – Demand for sustainable stock funds waned in February as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine hit investor sentiment and higher gas prices and energy…
By Valentina Za MILAN – Intesa Sanpaolo said on Wednesday that its loans to Russian and Ukrainian clients amounted to 5.1 billion euros net of guarantees from credit export agencies,…
By Gergely Szakacs and Alan Charlish BUDAPEST/WARSAW -Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is putting pressure on central banks along the European Union’s eastern flank to prop up their weakening currencies, forcing…
– Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn has drawn attention to the use of metal enclosures to house pregnant pigs in a dispute with McDonald’s Corp over its pork suppliers’ animal-welfare…
By Alexandra Ulmer – The leading photo on the website of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the annual get-together of American rightwing notables, is of a grinning Donald Trump.…
By Francois Murphy, Parisa Hafezi and John Irish VIENNA – A U.S.-Iranian deal taking shape to revive Iran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers lays out phases of mutual steps…
By Aaron Ross BISSAU – In October, President Umaro Sissoco Embalo told French radio that drug trafficking and corruption were over in Guinea-Bissau, a country that has struggled to shake…
AMSTERDAM – The city of Amsterdam announced on Thursday a one-year freeze on the opening of new “dark stores” – small distribution centres in residential areas or nearby shopping streets…
MOSCOW – Russia has put the brother of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on a wanted list, according to interior ministry records, as he faces a summons for a court…
Joe Biden was comfortable and confident as he worked the crowd, shaking hands and exchanging pleasantries with the audience at his visit on November 17th to an electric vehicle assembly…
A Virginia university professor, whose book and research attempted to destigmatize the attraction to underage children, has been placed on leave, the university said in a statement. On Tuesday, Old…
North Korean soldiers put on a series of martial arts stunts to accompany the country’s exhibition of nuclear missiles on Monday. Footage of the demonstration shows shirtless men performing a…