© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Swiss bank UBS is seen at a branch office in Zurich, Switzerland, June 22, 2020. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo By Danilo Masoni MILAN (Reuters) – Expectations of rising interest rates have failed to lift valuations of European bank shares languishing at near two-decade lows as a worsening growth outlook…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador delivers a speech at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico April 12, 2022. REUTERS/Henry Romero MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s government next week will unveil a plan agreed with business groups to level prices nationwide for staples such as corn, beans, rice and milk…
© Bloomberg. A house under construction in the Cielo at Sand Creek by Century Communities housing development in Antioch, California, U.S., on Thursday, March 31, 2022. U.S. home prices shows signs of becoming “unhinged from fundamentals” like they did in the housing bubble that preceded the 2008 crash, according to a blog post by the…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A participant stands near a logo of World Bank at the International Monetary Fund – World Bank Annual Meeting 2018 in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, October 12, 2018. REUTERS/Johannes P. Christo By Uditha and Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) -The World Bank has agreed to provide Sri Lanka with $600 million in financial…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard testifies before a Senate Banking Committee hearing on her nomination to be vice-chair of the Federal Reserve, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 13, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Ph By David Morgan (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard won confirmation in the U.S. Senate on…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Demonstrators shout slogans against Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, near the Presidential Secretariat, amid the country’s economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 23, 2022. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar/File Photo (Reuters) – Sri Lanka must tighten monetary policy, raise tax and adopt flexible exchange rates to address its debt crisis, a senior International…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard testifies before a Senate Banking Committee hearing on her nomination to be vice-chair of the Federal Reserve, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 13, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz By David Morgan and Ann Saphir (Reuters) -Lael Brainard, one of President Joe Biden’s four nominees to…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A truck driver stands next to his truck as he gets ready to transport a shipping container at Pusan Newport Terminal in Busan, South Korea, July 1, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji By Jihoon Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s economic growth nearly halved in the first quarter from the preceding three months on…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective mask walks past the headquarters of Bank of Japan amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Tokyo, Japan, May 22, 2020.REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan is set to maintain ultra-low interest rates on Thursday and hold off from major…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: An ingot of 99.99 percent pure gold is cast at the Krastsvetmet non-ferrous metals plant in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia March 10, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Manzyuk By Bharat Gautam (Reuters) – Gold prices fell on Monday to their lowest in four weeks, as bets for an increasingly aggressive and hawkish…





