© 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…
Viva Republica head Lee Seung-gun is taking his finance superapp Toss to its next stage with a big push in Southeast Asia and a blockbuster funding round in the works—and that’s just the beginning. This story is part of Forbes’ coverage of Korea’s Richest 2022. See the full list here. It’s been seven years since…
BEIJING (AP) — China’s credit card processor has refused to work with banks in Russia for fear of being targeted by sanctions over its war on Ukraine, cutting off a possible alternative after Visa and Mastercard stopped serving them, according to the Russian news outlet RBC.UnionPay’s decision affects Sberbank, Russia’s biggest commercial bank, and smaller…
Can’t blame Coinbase (COIN) for trying. The most popular of the crypto exchanges in the United States is scrambling to try to find sources of growth as trading by retail investors has slowed markedly. It is these same investors, led by young people who have suddenly become rich thanks to their investments in crypto, which…
Elon Musk managed to make Tesla (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc Report the benchmark in the automotive sector that the company completely disrupted. Three years after getting close to bankruptcy, the automobile group is in sparkling health. Tesla has just revealed first-quarter results that have thwarted even the most optimistic forecasts. Net profit was $3.32 billion,…
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla, has promised a futuristic car as Tesla’s (TSLA) – Get Tesla Inc Report future vehicle. It was thought that the long-awaited Cybertruck had pushed the limits of what could be done today in terms of cars, but the billionaire seems to think not. He just announced that Tesla is…
© 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…
The jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Russian troops killed a Ukrainian man because he had the same last name as the Putin critic.In a Tuesday Twitter thread, Navalny shared a picture of a passport with the name Ilya Ivanovich Navalny that he said was left next to the body of a 60-year-old man…
A small but growing number of Kremlin insiders are questioning President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine and have serious concerns about its potentially devastating economic and political impact, Bloomberg reported.Bloomberg cited ten sources with direct knowledge knowledge of the situation in its report, and described the critics as being spread across senior positions in government…





