4/4 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People shop for cooking oil made from oil palms at a supermarket in Jakarta, Indonesia, March 27, 2022. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan 2/4 By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Indonesia’s new palm oil export ban will hurt other countries but is necessary to try to bring down the soaring domestic…
© Reuters. Traders Add Hedges for 75-Basis-Point Fed Rate Hikes, Roiling Bonds (Bloomberg) — The dust appeared to have settled on a rocky day for U.S. interest-rate markets — even by recent standards — when the options market lit up late Thursday with a couple of trades anticipating the Federal Reserve will make multiple 75-basis-point…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Gita Gopinath, Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) speaks during a news conference in Santiago, Chile, July 23, 2019. REUTERS/Rodrigo Garrido (Reuters) – Central bankers must act decisively and quickly to tackle the rise in inflation, Gita Gopinath, first deputy managing director of…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen makes a speech about the current and future state of the U.S. and global economy at the Atlantic Council in Washington, U.S., April 13, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Friday said the U.S. economy was proving “very resilient”…
© Bloomberg. Charles Evans Photographer: Justin Chin/Bloomberg (Bloomberg) — Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans plans to retire early next year, the bank said Thursday. “It has been an honor to serve as a president of the Chicago Fed and as a member of the Federal Open Market Committee for the last 14…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People shop at a Walmart Supercentre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio/File Photo By Julie Gordon OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s headline inflation may have peaked after hitting a 31-year high in March, economists said, though the central bank still faces an uphill battle to bring rocketing prices back…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The central bank headquarters building is seen in Brasilia, Brazil May 16, 2017. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s central bank said on Wednesday it would resume data release that were suspended due to a strike by its employees, including a weekly survey seen as critical for the monetary policy conduction.…
© 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/File Photo/File Photo By Junko Fujita TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan on Wednesday boosted efforts to defend its yield target, making a fresh offer…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: International Monetary Fund logo is seen outside the headquarters building during the IMF/World Bank spring meeting in Washington, U.S., April 20, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund’s new chief economist said on Tuesday he is concerned about increasing signals that inflation expectations…
© Reuters. People without masks arrive to the counter for check in at La Guardia Airport after the Biden administration announced it would no longer enforce a U.S. coronavirus disease (COVID-19) mask mandate on public transportation, following a federal judge’s ruli By Jeff Mason, Trevor Hunnicutt and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden’s…





