Browsing: Economy

By Stella Qiu SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s central bank on Tuesday held interest rates at 4.1% for a second straight month, saying past increases were working to…

The numbers: U.S. private-sector employment jumped by 324,000 in July, payroll processor ADP said, as businesses hired more workers to keep up with rising demand for…

By Kevin Buckland and Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE/TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government bond market has turned into a cat-and-mouse arena for investors and the Bank of Japan,…

America is going to keep seeing its credit rating downgraded so long as we continue on the same ridiculous path we have been on for a…

By Tom Sims FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s property sector is under stress, prompting firms to call for government support, property developers to file for insolvency and…

Investing.com — Investors are preparing to sift through a deluge of corporate results on Tuesday from big-name brands like Merck, Starbucks and Caterpillar . Meanwhile, Facebook-owner…

South Korea’s headline inflation cooled for six months in a row, slowing to a 25-month low in July. The continued easing of inflation pressure justifies the…

BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese ministries, regulators and the central bank on Tuesday pledged more financing support to small businesses, suggesting an urgency among policymakers to revive…

The president of the Atlanta Federal Reserve said a “significant” slowdown in inflation gives the central bank scope to leave interest rates unchanged in September and…

By Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing (Reuters) – An obscure cloud service company has been providing state-sponsored hackers with internet services to spy on and extort…