© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: German Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann attends the 29th Frankfurt European Banking Congress (EBC) at the Old Opera house in Frankfurt, Germany November 22, 2019. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski/File Photo By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund said on Friday it has appointed Germany’s former Bundesbank president Jens Weidmann to lead…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) chats with Sarah Bloom Raskin, who is nominated to be vice chair for supervision and a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, and her daughter Hannah Raskin, following a Senate Banking, Housing an By Ann Saphir (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s nominees to…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell speaks during his re-nominations hearing of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., January 11, 2022. Brendan Smialowski/Pool via REUTERS (Reuters) – Jerome Powell will become interim Federal Reserve chair on Saturday, ensuring continuity in leadership at…
© Reuters. U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about a U.S. Special Forces operation in Northern Syria against ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., February 3, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks at a news conference ahead of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland January 20, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse//File Photo By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it was “too early” to say if the world…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The U.S. Federal Reserve Board building on Constitution Avenue is pictured in Washington, U.S., March 19, 2019. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo By Ann Saphir and Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s nominees to the Federal Reserve Board came out swinging against high inflation on Wednesday, saying rising prices pose a…
2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi gestures as he holds his end-of-year news conference in Rome, Italy, December 22, 2021. REUTERS/Remo Casilli 2/2 By Gavin Jones, Angelo Amante and Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) – Last weekend, for the first time in his gilded career, Mario Draghi missed out on a promotion.…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Customers at the Edeka grocery store buy pasta, as the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues in Duesseldorf, Germany, April 29, 2020. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo By Dhara Ranasinghe A look at the day ahead in markets from Dhara Ranasinghe. The European Central Bank’s plan to start tiptoeing away from monetary stimulus…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People count money at Macy’s Herald Square store during the early opening of the Black Friday sales in the Manhattan borough of New York, November 26, 2015. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly By Chris Taylor NEW YORK (Reuters) – Low inflation had spoiled U.S. investors for so long that last year’s sudden surge came…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People walk in the courtyard of Indonesia’s central bank, Bank Indonesia, in Jakarta, Indonesia September 22, 2016.REUTERS/Iqro Rinaldi JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s annual inflation rate rose to 2.18% in January, climbing to be within the central bank’s 2% to 4% target range for the first time in nearly two years, data…





