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By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) -The Maldives has “phased out” a brief engagement with U.S. firm Centerview Partners on debt matters and the island nation will now focus on managing…

Investing.com — “It’s the economy, stupid.” Political consultant Jim Carville’s famed quip from 1992 continues to ring true in U.S. presidential elections, and the 2024 race is certainly no exception.…

Investing.com — US stock futures were broadly muted on Wednesday ahead of a raft of fresh quarterly earnings reports, including numbers from electric carmaker Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA). Texas Instruments (NASDAQ:TXN) reports stronger-than-anticipated…

By Gergely Szakacs and Karol Badohal WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s NATO-leading surge in defence spending is raising budget concerns because it will bake in higher long-term expenditure on its military…

By Anastasia Lyrchikova, Alexander Marrow and Darya Korsunskaya MOSCOW (Reuters) – A growing chorus of Russian industrial companies and lobby groups are complaining of prohibitively high interest rates and warning…

By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) -European companies that deal closely with China would be most negatively affected by a Republican victory at the upcoming U.S. election given Donald Trump has…

By Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba made fast progress restoring power to swaths of the Caribbean island nation on Tuesday, both in Havana and outlying provinces, even as emergency…

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee  The rising odds of a Trump presidency in a still-too-tight-to-call U.S. election and shifting expectations of…

By Balazs Koranyi (Reuters) – European Central Bank policymakers have begun to debate whether interest rates need to be lowered enough to start stimulating the economy, ending years of economic…