Economy

By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s official labour market statistics may be failing to count almost 1 million people who are in work, complicating the Bank of England’s task…

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s official statistician has been overestimating the cost of child care in its consumer price index for the past year, but the error will not result in…

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Pfizer (NYSE:PFE)’s bid to recoup about $75.2 million left over from a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission insider…

By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.  Geopolitical jitters rippled through world markets on Tuesday but subsided as the U.S. trading session progressed,…

(Corrects to show that Yellen became Council of Economic Advisers chair in 1997, after CDFI fund was launched, in paragraph 2) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former President Bill Clinton will return…

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It remains uncertain how far interest rates can fall, though the initial reductions made by the U.S. central bank are a vote of confidence…

PARIS (Reuters) -Shares in Gucci-owner Kering (EPA:PRTP) rose on Thursday, shrugging off the French luxury goods company’s warning that 2024 operating income would almost halve to its lowest in years…

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa will use its G20 presidency to focus on advancing inclusive economic growth, food security and artificial intelligence, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday at a…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to pick Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick to serve as Commerce secretary, a Punchbowl reporter said in a post…