© Reuters Goldman Now Expects Four Fed Hikes, Sees Faster Runoff in 2022 (Bloomberg) — The Federal Reserve will likely raise interest rates four times this year and will start its balance sheet runoff process in July, if not earlier, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS). Rapid progress in the U.S. labor market and…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A customer asks for prices at a greengrocery store in a street market, in Buenos Aires, Argentina June 15, 2021. Picture taken June 15, 2021. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian/File Photo (Reuters) – Inflation in Argentina is expected to reach 54.8% at the end of 2022, according to a central bank poll of analysts…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden receives an economic briefing in the Roosevelt Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., March 5, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner By Jeff Mason LOUISVILLE, Colo. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden, visiting the scene of Colorado’s most destructive wildfire on record, said on Friday the rare winter blaze…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Workers weigh goods in an open-air fruit and vegetable market in Caracas, Venezuela December 22, 2020. Picture taken December 22, 2020. REUTERS/Manaure Quintero By Mayela Armas CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s annual inflation rate hit 686.4% in 2021, demonstrating a deceleration of consumer price growth versus the previous year when inflation was…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki visits Orlen Lietuva oil refinery in Mazeikiai, Lithuania, June 3, 2018. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki is expected to announce more additions to the country’s anti-inflationary package on Tuesday, government spokesperson Piotr Muller said on Saturday. The measures in the whole…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Isabel Schnabel, member of the German advisory board of economic experts attends the 29th Frankfurt European Banking Congress (EBC) at the Old Opera house in Frankfurt, Germany November 22, 2019. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Rising energy prices may force the European Central Bank to stop “looking through” high inflation and act…
© Reuters. Macron Doubles Down on Plan to ‘Piss Off’ the Unvaccinated (Bloomberg) — President Emmanuel Macron on Friday stood by the uncompromising stance and combative language he directed earlier this week at France’s unvaccinated citizens amid record numbers of new Covid-19 cases. Macron in a Tuesday interview with Le Parisien used salty language — saying…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Signage is seen at the United States Department of the Treasury headquarters in Washington, D.C., U.S., August 29, 2020. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly/File Photo By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department said on Friday it disbursed about $2.9 billion in Emergency Rental Assistance funds to 665,000 renters and landlords during…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Argentine Economy Minister Martin Guzman gestures during an interview with Reuters, in Buenos Aires, Argentina March 11, 2020. REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian/File Photo By Jorge Otaola BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s sovereign bonds fell on Thursday after its economy minister said it would be difficult to reach agreement with the International Monetary Fund…
© Bloomberg. China Customs officers raise a Chinese flag during a rehearsal for a flag-raising ceremony along the Bund past buildings in the Lujiazui Financial District at sunrise in Shanghai, China, on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. A wall of maturing debt and a surge in seasonal demand for cash will test China’s financial markets this…





