© 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…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A woman shops for cooking oil made from oil palms at a supermarket in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 27, 2022. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan (Reuters) -Indonesia’s plan to ban palm oil exports will deal a blow to the world’s top food and consumer products companies including Unilever (NYSE:UL), Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) and Nestle.…
2/2 © 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 2/2 By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund said on Saturday it held “fruitful technical discussions” with Sri Lanka…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO – Demonstrators sit near the National Congress as the senate debates the government’s agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in Buenos Aires, Argentina March 17, 2022. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentine economy minister Martin Guzman said late on Friday that a $45 billion debt deal with the International…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO – India’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman holds up a folder with the Government of India’s logo as she leaves her office to present the federal budget in the parliament in New Delhi, India, February 1, 2022. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis MUMBAI (Reuters) – India wants to be strong friends with the “liberal world”…
2/2 © Reuters. Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati answers questions during an interview at the World Bank in Washington, U.S., April 22, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein 2/2 By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati on Friday joined a growing chorus of officials calling for reforms aimed at…
3/3 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Colombian presidential candidate Gustavo Petro arrives at a meeting of members of the Historical Pact coalition to define the vice-presidential formula, in Bogota, Colombia, March 22, 2022. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez/File Photo 2/3 By Nelson Bocanegra CARTAGENA (Reuters) – Candidates most likely to win Colombia’s presidential elections on Friday agreed for the…
© Reuters. Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati answers questions during an interview at the World Bank in Washington, U.S., April 22, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein By Andrea Shalal and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As the world’s dominant creditor, China must demonstrate leadership in addressing the growing debt problem facing many low-income and emerging market…





