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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Office workers cross a street in Singapore’s central business district April 27, 2017. REUTERS/Edgar Su SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s Finance Minister Lawrence Wong announced a S$500 million ($372 million) package to support jobs and businesses as part of his budget proposals on Friday. Singapore’s government has committed close to S$100 billion…

© Reuters. People hold the Ukrainian national flag as they gather at the Pantheon to call for peace between Ukraine and Russia, in Rome, Italy, February 15, 2022. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane By Karin Strohecker and Natalia Zinets LONDON/KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine is working with the United States and other Western nations on unlocking billions of dollars…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington on Sept. 16 2015. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque//File Photo By David Morgan, Pete Schroeder and Lindsay (NYSE:LNN) Dunsmuir (Reuters) -U.S. Senate action on President Joe Biden’s five nominees to the Federal Reserve stalled Tuesday after Republicans boycotted a key vote over objections to Sarah Bloom Raskin, the…

© Reuters. Committee Ranking Member Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) delivers his opening statement during a Senate Banking Committee hearings with U.S. Treasury Undersecretary For Domestic Finance Nellie Liang in Washington, D.C, U.S., February 15, 2022. Win McNamee/Pool (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Banking Committee should not vote on President Joe Biden’s slate of Federal Reserve…

Former New York Yankees baseball player Alex Rodriguez — better known as A-Rod — has been revealed to be part of a group of investors looking to buy over the lease to former President Donald Trump’s Washington DC hotel.Citing sources familiar with the matter, the Associated Press reported on Monday that Rodriguez, who Trump has…

First on Fox: Lawyers for the Clinton campaign paid a technology company to “infiltrate” servers belonging to Trump Tower, and later the White House, in order to establish an “inference” and “narrative” to bring to government agencies linking Donald Trump to Russia, a filing from Special Counsel John Durham says.Durham filed a motion on Feb.…

(Reuters) – The U.S. Senate Banking committee’s top Republican on Friday took renewed aim at President Joe Biden’s nominee to a senior Federal Reserve post, Sarah Bloom Raskin, suggesting she had improperly lobbied the head of the Kansas City Fed on behalf of a fintech firm on whose board she then served. In an interview…

The National Archives found documents clearly marked as classified, including at the “top secret” level, among the 15 boxes of papers and memento former President Donald Trump improperly took home from the White House, The Washington Post reports, citing two people familiar with the matter. Those documents are now being kept in secure storage by…

© Bloomberg. U.S. President Joe Biden speaks at Germanna Community College in Culpeper, Virginia, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022. Biden touted his efforts to roll back prescription drug costs in a statement on inflation released today and is highlighting his administration’s work to lower health care costs for American families. (Bloomberg) — President Joe…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati talks during the IMF conference in Jakarta, Indonesia February 27, 2018. REUTERS/Beawiharta By Stefanno Sulaiman and Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) – As Indonesia’s economy recovers from the pandemic, fiscal stimulus should no longer be a dominant factor driving growth, its finance minister said on Wednesday,…