By Fergal Smith TORONTO – REUTERS POLL-CANADIAN DOLLAR TO STRENGTHEN SLIGHTLY TO 1.25/USD IN THREE MONTHS, MATCHING MARCH’S FORECAST REUTERS POLL-CANADIAN DOLLAR SEEN UP 2% AT 1.23/USD IN ONE YEAR …
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By Sameer Manekar (Reuters) – Bearish bets on most Asian currencies eased as regional central banks sought to normalise policy due to surging inflation, while investors turned bullish on Singapore …
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(Reuters) – The Federal Reserve “has some time” to raise rates towards a more neutral level, Richmond Fed President Thomas Barkin said Wednesday, a counter to calls for a faster …
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By Wayne Cole SYDNEY – Most of Australia’s major banks now expect a rise in interest rates as early as June, though opinions on the pace of tightening and the …
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By Prerana Bhat and Tushar Goenka BENGALURU – The Reserve Bank of India will delay its first interest rate rise by at least four months to August at the earliest, …
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WASHINGTON – Americans living in poorer counties died during the pandemic at almost twice the rate of those in rich counties, a study released Monday by the Poor People’s Campaign …
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WASHINGTON – The Federal Reserve will need to keep a careful eye on how the economy reacts as it raises interest rates, and scale the pace of its rate increases …
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By Ann Saphir (Reuters) – Chicago Federal Reserve President Charles Evans on Friday repeated his view that the U.S. central bank will likely need to make seven quarter-of-a-percentage-point interest rate …
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By Nelson Bocanegra and Julia Symmes Cobb BOGOTA – Colombia’s central bank board raised the benchmark interest rate by 100 basis points to 5% on Thursday, significantly lower than expected …
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BRASILIA – Brazil’s jobless rate stood at 11.2% in the three months through February, statistics agency IBGE said on Thursday, the lowest level for the period in six years, amid …
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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 …
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By Fergal Smith TORONTO – As Canada’s inflation outlook worsens, investors are betting the country’s central bank will begin hiking its key interest rate in half-percentage-point increments, with the first …
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FRANKFURT – The European Central Bank should raise its key interest rate to zero by year-end or it will risk having to raise it even more abruptly next year to …
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JERUSALEM – Senior citizens who received a second booster of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccination had a 78% lower mortality rate from the disease than those who got one only, a …
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By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK – U.S. credit markets saw some respite after the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates last week, but the relief is expected to be short-lived as …
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Exclusive-EU nations to exchange refugees’ hryvnias at Ukraine cenbank rate- draft document
by ReutersBRUSSELS – European Union countries are likely to agree to allow millions of Ukrainian refugees to exchange their currency, the hryvnia, into currencies used in the EU over the next …
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By Ann Saphir – Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank President Loretta Mester on Tuesday said she would like to raise interest rates to about 2.5% by year end, with bigger rate …
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By Gergely Szakacs and Krisztina Than BUDAPEST – The National Bank of Hungary raised its base rate by 100 basis points to 4.4% on Tuesday, the biggest hike in the …
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NEW YORK – Federal funds rate futures on Monday raised the chances of a half percentage-point tightening by the Federal Reserve at the next policy meeting in May, after hawkish …
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By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE – The Czech central bank is likely to raise interest rates again on March 31 and may discuss more use of foreign exchange interventions, board member …
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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 …
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ZURICH – European Central Bank (ECB) policymaker Robert Holzmann told an Austrian newspaper that the bank could send a clear message about fighting inflation by raising interest rates before ending …
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By Howard Schneider BALTIMORE – The rate increases projected by Federal Reserve officials this week represented a “balancing act” between the need to begin normalizing monetary policy in the face …
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In New York City, women and young girls are being grabbed, groped and assaulted at a higher rate
by Adam DevineNEW YORK, NY – There’s a new growing problem in New York City. While random attacks on Asians and subway slashings and assaults also continue to rise, a new trend …
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Fed’s Waller says series of half point rate increases may be needed at coming meetings – CNBC
by ReutersWASHINGTON – Federal Reserve Governor Chris Waller said economic risks around the war in Ukraine led him to vote in favor of a quarter percentage point rate increase at the …