2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Customers pay cash to buy up stocks of wine, food and kitchen supplies as the French restaurant Montmartre closes after 20 years of operation on Capitol Hill due to financial pressures caused by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in W 2/2 By Howard Schneider (Reuters) -Atlanta Federal Reserve President Raphael…
3/3 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A money changer sells U.S. dollar bills at a currency exchange office in Ankara, Turkey September 24, 2021. REUTERS/Cagla Gurdogan 2/3 By Sinead Cruise and John O’Donnell LONDON/BERLIN (Reuters) -Global banks are taking steps to weather the wider impact of war and runaway inflation as the stream of central bank…
© Reuters. Signage for a job fair is seen on 5th Avenue after the release of the jobs report in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 3, 2021. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New claims for U.S. unemployment benefits increased to a more than two-month high last week, but remained at a…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective face mask walks past the Bank of England (BoE), after the BoE became the first major world’s central bank to raise rates since the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in London, Britain, December 16, 2021. REUTE By David Milliken, William Schomberg and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) -The…
© Reuters. By Yasin Ebrahim Investing.com – The Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday by a half percentage point for the first time since 2000 as the fight against elevated inflation heats up. The Federal Open Market Committee raised its benchmark rate to a range of 0.75% to 1% from 0.25% to 0.5% previously. Ahead…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A street vendor counts his money at the Namdaemun Market in Seoul, South Korea, May 30, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji By Jihoon Lee and Choonsik Yoo SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s consumer prices in April rose much faster than expected and at their quickest pace in 13-and-a-half years over a year earlier,…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai testifies before a Senate Finance Committee hearing on President Biden’s trade policy agenda on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 31, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – All tools are on the table to address rising inflation, including reductions of tariffs on Chinese…
5/5 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Marco Lopez stands for a portrait after speaking with Reuters about inflation concerns in Phoenix, Arizona, U.S., April 19, 2022. REUTERS/Caitlin O’Hara 2/5 (Fixes election year in paragraph 35) By Tim Reid and Brad Brooks PHOENIX/COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (Reuters) -Ricardo Aguirre sits near his two taco trucks…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People wearing protective masks, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, make their way at a shopping district in Tokyo, Japan, March 16, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon By Kantaro Komiya and Kentaro Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese mother of three Maiko Takahashi was never one to pinch pennies or accept hand-me-downs for her…
© Reuters. Investors and guests arrive for the first in-person annual meeting since 2019 of Berkshire Hathaway Inc in Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. April 29, 2022. REUTERS/Scott Morgan OMAHA, Neb. (Reuters) – Warren Buffett said on Saturday that inflation “swindles almost everybody” and that it was “extraordinary” how much inflation had been seen in Berkshire Hathaway…