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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A job seeker leaves the job fair for airport related employment at Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., December 7, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits held below pre-pandemic levels last week as the labor market…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A money changer counts Turkish lira banknotes at a currency exchange office in Ankara, Turkey November 11, 2021. REUTERS/Cagla Gurdogan By Nevzat Devranoglu and Ezgi Erkoyun ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s lira rallied further on Thursday and was on track for its best week in two decades, boosted by a government plan…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: People look out to the City of London financial district from a viewing platform in London, Britain, October 22, 2021. REUTERS/Hannah McKay (Refiles to correct date in dateline) LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s economy grew more slowly than previously thought in the July-September period, before the Omicron variant of the coronavirus posed…

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A person holds a placard as climate activists including Extinction Rebellion and Fridays for Future stage a protest demanding more action whilst G20 climate and environment ministers hold a meeting in Naples, Italy, July 22, 2021. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane/File Photo 2/2 By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Large U.S. banks would…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A general view of Two International Finance Centre (IFC), HSBC headquarters and Bank of China in Hong Kong, China July 13, 2021. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu By Alun John HONG KONG (Reuters) – Financial institutions think business conditions in Hong Kong and mainland China will deteriorate in the coming years, although they plan…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey in London, Britain February 25, 2019. Kirsty O’Connor/Pool via REUTERS By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) -Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey warned banks and other regulated financial firms on Monday that they should be “especially cautious” about holding volatile cryptoassets until regulators put new rules…

© Reuters. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss attends the G7 summit of foreign and development ministers at the Museum of Liverpool, in Liverpool, Britain, December 12, 2021. REUTERS/Phil Noble/Pool LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) – The Group of Seven major industrialized countries are concerned about the “coercive” economic policies of China, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said…

© Reuters. The logo of Nubank, a Brazilian FinTech startup, is pictured at the bank’s headquarters in Sao Paulo, Brazil June 19, 2018. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker/File Photo SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Latin American fintech Nubank priced its class A shares on Wednesday at $9 each in an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange which…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man walks in front the Central bank headquarters building in Brasilia, Brazil October 4, 2021. REUTERS/Adriano Machado By Marcela Ayres and Bernardo Caram BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s central bank on Wednesday raised interest rates by 150 basis points and signaled another such hike in February, waging one of the world’s…

4/4 © Reuters. A delivery man drives a car with a trailer containing Cid Ice Cream, a brand run by Cuban entrepreneurs Henry and Yendri Garcia, in Havana, Cuba December 6, 2021. REUTERS/Natalia Favre 2/4 By Marc Frank and Mario Fuentes HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban entrepreneurs Henry and Yendri Garcia have long peddled home-made ice…