Economy

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan is expected to raise interest rates on Friday to levels unseen since the 2008 global financial crisis, as a broad…

(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would demand that interest rates drop immediately, and that other countries should follow suit – marking his first broadside at…

By Sarah Marsh and Andreas Rinke BERLIN (Reuters) – German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, tipped to become the next chancellor, said on Thursday he wanted to win back the lost…

By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Hedge funds have turned optimistic about European companies that sell things people want but don’t necessarily need, especially luxury goods, according to a Goldman…

By Padraic Halpin and Conor Humphries DUBLIN (Reuters) – Micheál Martin was elected Irish prime minister for the second time by a coalition of the country’s two large centre-right parties…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits rose marginally last week, suggesting that solid job growth likely continued in January. Initial claims for state…

(Reuters) – Mexico’s annual inflation rate slowed to its lowest level in almost four years in the first half of January, official data showed on Thursday, settling under 4% and…

(Reuters) -Miner Freeport-McMoRan (NYSE:FCX) beat fourth-quarter profit estimates on Thursday, helped by higher copper prices. Average copper prices rose in the fourth quarter, helped by signs of more stimulus in…

Investing.com – The European Central Bank may begin to slow the pace of anticipated interest rate cuts this year in the third quarter, according to analysts at Deutsche Bank (ETR:DBKGn). Economists…