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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard testifies before a Senate Banking Committee hearing on her nomination to be vice-chair of the Federal Reserve, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 13, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz/File Ph By David Morgan (Reuters) -Federal Reserve Governor Lael Brainard won confirmation in the U.S. Senate on…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Federal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard testifies before a Senate Banking Committee hearing on her nomination to be vice-chair of the Federal Reserve, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 13, 2022. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz By David Morgan and Ann Saphir (Reuters) -Lael Brainard, one of President Joe Biden’s four nominees to…

WASHINGTON – French President Emmanuel Macron cruised to a second term Sunday, beating back a stronger-than-expected challenge from a far-right populist who has attacked the European Union and NATO and expressed support for Russia.“I am no longer the candidate of one side, but instead the president for all,” Macron told cheering supporters who gathered near…

© 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”…

First lady Jill Biden expressed frustration that Kamala Harris was the top choice for vice president, according to an upcoming book from two New York Times reporters.An excerpt provided to Fox News from Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns’ forthcoming book, “This Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden, and the Battle for America’s Future,” describes the vice…

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…

© 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…

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…