Economy

By Leika Kihara and Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) -Core consumer inflation in Japan’s capital accelerated in November and stayed above the central bank’s 2% target in a sign of broadening…

By Devayani Sathyan BENGALURU (Reuters) – Home prices in Australia will rise steadily over the coming two years, driven by tight supply and an expected modest easing cycle from the…

By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s central bank is finally getting a major shake-up of its policy-making process that adds extra uncertainty to when it might deliver interest rate…

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia said on Thursday it has issued a cease-and-desist order to Elon Musk’s satellite internet provider Starlink for operating in the country…

By Harry Robertson LONDON (Reuters) – French borrowing costs effectively matched those of Greece on Thursday for the first time, as Michel Barnier’s government teetered on the brink of collapse,…

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Thursday pledged to invest 1.98 billion pounds ($2.5 billion) over three years into the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) fund for the lowest-income countries.…

By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) – The European Central Bank should keep its options open for a bigger rate cut next month and its policy rate could eventually fall to…

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank should make a clearer distinction between instruments used to guide inflation and those aimed at stabilising financial markets, Dutch central bank chief Klaas…

By Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) – German inflation remained flat in November despite expectations of a second consecutive increase interrupting the downward trend in Europe’s troubled largest economy. Inflation stayed…