© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People are silhouetted against the Sydney Opera House at sunset in Australia, November 2, 2016. REUTERS/Steven Saphore By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian core inflation sped to its fastest annual pace since 2015 in the September quarter as price increases became more broad-based, a major surprise that led markets to…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: United Steelworkers (USW) union members picket outside Exxon Mobil’s oil refinery amid a contract dispute in Beaumont, Texas, U.S., May 1, 2021. REUTERS/Erwin Seba By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) -Negotiators for the United Steelworkers union (USW) and Exxon Mobil Corp (NYSE:XOM) met on Tuesday for the first time since a vote…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen answers questions during the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 23, 2021. Greg Nash/Pool via REUTERS BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s Vice Premier Liu He spoke with U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Oct. 26 via video call and talked about the…
© Reuters. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen attends the House Financial Services Committee hearing in Washington, U.S., September 30, 2021. Al Drago/Pool via REUTERS/Files WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen “frankly raised issues of concern” in a virtual meeting on Monday with Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, the U.S. Treasury said in a statement.…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man walks past in front of a stock quotation board showing the price of the SoftBank Corp. and Nikkei share average outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan December 19, 2018. REUTERS/Issei Kato By Kane Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) – Asian stocks inched higher on Tuesday, as upbeat Wall Street earnings…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The company logo is seen on the headquarters of China Evergrande Group in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China September 26, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song HONG KONG (Reuters) – Shares in China Evergrande Group’s electric vehicle (EV) unit rose as much as 5.8% early on Tuesday, extending gains from the previous day as the…
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Glaciologist Andrea Fischer, from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, hikes towards the entrance of a natural glacier cavity of the Jamtalferner glacier near Galtuer, Austria, October 15, 2021. Giant ice caves have appeared in glaciers accelerat 2/2 By Mark John COP26 climate talks in Glasgow starting next Sunday may be…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The European Central Bank (ECB) logo in Frankfurt, Germany, January 23, 2020. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski/File Photo By Dhara Ranasinghe and Saikat Chatterjee LONDON (Reuters) – The inflation genie is finally out of its bottle. Now investors are waiting to see whether the European Central Bank on Thursday admits that price pressures are…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) holds her weekly news conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., October 12, 2021. REUTERS/James Lawler Duggan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday she expects to have votes on President Biden’s infrastructure and Build Back Better deals in the…
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) walks through the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., October 21, 2021. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz 2/2 By Jarrett Renshaw, Doina Chiacu and Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrats have almost reached an agreement on a social spending bill that is a pared-down version of U.S. President Joe Biden’s…