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By Dhara Ranasinghe and Alun John LONDON (Reuters) – Conflict in the Middle East is escalating once more, but the mood music across financial markets remains upbeat for now due…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits rose marginally last week, but Hurricane Helene’s rampage in the U.S. Southeast and strikes at Boeing (NYSE:BA)…

(Reuters) – U.S. layoff announcements slipped in September from August’s five-month high but for the year to date have now edged past last year’s pace, a monthly tally of workforce…

By Kitiphong Thaichareon and Chayut Setboonsarng BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s finance minister said he had met the central bank governor on Thursday and discussed the issue of high household debt…

By Matt Tracy and Shankar Ramakrishnan (Reuters) – The beleaguered U.S. office property market may be bottoming out, analysts told Reuters, pointing to a string of sales of stressed properties…

(Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures slipped on Thursday as markets awaited data for insights on the economic outlook and the likelihood of further interest-rate cuts from the Federal Reserve,…

Investing.com — The Federal Reserve may face more difficulty in characterizing further aggressive interest rate cuts as “normalization” in the coming months if the unemployment rate remains higher than anticipated, according…

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s GDP growth rate was 2.4% in the fourth quarter of the 2023/24 year, bringing the annual growth rate to 2.4%, down from 3.8% a year earlier,…

ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss inflation has fallen to its lowest level in more than three years, government data showed on Thursday, prompting analysts to say more interest rate cuts by…