Turkey's monthly inflation rate is expected to be 2% in May, impacted by higher clothing and fruit prices, with the annual rate seen falling to 36.1%, a Reuters poll showed on
May 28, 2025
Australian consumer inflation held steady in April as higher health and holiday costs offset a drop in petrol prices, although the monthly measure tends to be volatile and left hopes
May 28, 2025
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Wednesday the central bank will be vigilant to the risk large swings in super-long bond yields could
May 27, 2025
Japan's Nikkei share average will climb about 5% by end-year as uncertainties over U.S. trade policies that have been holding the index back continue to clear up,
May 27, 2025
After Chinese banks reduced deposit rates last week, Miro Chen launched a social media poll: "When interest rates fall, do you save or spend?"
May 27, 2025
Swiss inflation could enter negative territory in the coming months, but this will not necessarily trigger a reaction by the Swiss National Bank, SNB
May 27, 2025
Another six months of war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza would reduce Israel's economic growth by a half point in 2025 and further
May 27, 2025
German home prices will build on a recent rebound but at a slightly slower pace than expected earlier this year, according to analysts polled by Reuters, as
May 27, 2025
What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Financial Industry and Financial Markets Markets were left nonplussed by increasingly erratic U.S.
May 27, 2025
The International Monetary Fund nudged up its growth forecast for Britain this year in a regular assessment of the country's economy, and it urged finance minister
May 27, 2025
The Bank of Spain warned on Tuesday that lenders' income growth was likely to slow down this year amid lower interest rates and geopolitical risks, and it would need to closely
May 27, 2025
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari on Tuesday called for keeping interest rates steady until there is more clarity on how higher tariffs
May 27, 2025
The normalisation of interest rates in the euro zone is probably not complete, European Central Bank (ECB) policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Tuesday.
May 27, 2025
The Bank of Korea (BOK) will lower its key policy rate by 25 basis points on Thursday as economic activity contracted in the last quarter and benign inflation
May 26, 2025
The Bank of Japan must be vigilant to the risk rising food prices could push up underlying inflation that is already near its 2% target, Governor Kazuo Ueda said,
May 26, 2025
Russia's economy is facing "hypothermia" risks, Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov said on Monday as he urged the central bank to take
May 26, 2025
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May 25, 2025
It's Japan's version of the Fed's Jackson Hole symposium, without the trail hikes or views, and this year's gathering of global central bankers in Tokyo will focus on
May 26, 2025
Indian economic growth likely picked up last quarter, a Reuters poll of economists found, in part from strength in rural spending related to
May 23, 2025
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is defending the central bank’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic
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May 22, 2025
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. climbed this week to its highest level since mid-February, a setback for home shoppers that threatens to slow sales further this spring homebuying season
May 22, 2025
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Thursday the central bank will closely monitor market moves as yields on super-long Japanese government bonds (
May 22, 2025
Britain's consumers turned a bit more confident in May, according to a survey published on Friday that might reflect the impact of falling interest rates and an easing
May 22, 2025
Japanese government bonds recovered slightly on Friday, after a volatile week that saw fiscal and inflation concerns drive super-long yields to record highs.
May 23, 2025
Major Russian exporters including Rusal and Gazpromneft have cut the planned volume of commodities like metal and oil products they send by rail, a Russian Railways
May 23, 2025
U.S. homeowners are boosting spending on home renovation projects, bucking a broader pullback by consumers amid diminished confidence in the economy
May 23, 2025
A look at what matters in U.S. and global markets today from Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Finance and Markets Even though some calm returned to U.S. bond and stock
May 23, 2025
The Euro zone inflation shock is nearly defeated and even if a global trade war could push up prices later on, projecting stability in turbulent times was key, ECB policymakers
May 22, 2025
Turkey's central bank left its year-end inflation forecast unchanged at 24% on Thursday but Governor Fatih Karahan said it is ready to tighten
May 22, 2025
The volume of loans to finance office buildings fell sharply in the first three months of the year, Germany's VDP banking association said on Thursday, a grim sign as the nation's
May 22, 2025
The U.S.
May 21, 2025
Russia's weekly inflation, a figure closely watched by the central bank, edged up to 0.07% after a 0.06% rise in the previous week, according to statistical data released on
May 21, 2025
Britain suffered a bigger-than-expected inflation surge in April, prompting investors to bet on the Bank of England slowing its already gradual pace of
May 21, 2025
Inflation in the U.K. spiked to its highest level for more than a year in April amid higher domestic bills such as energy and water
May 21, 2025
Major stock indexes eased while longer-dated U.S.
May 20, 2025
Canada's annual inflation rate fell to 1.7% in April due to a drop in energy prices, but analysts said a rise in closely watched core measures would make life hard
May 20, 2025
Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill said the BoE's pace of interest rate cuts had been too fast given still strong wage pressures on
May 20, 2025
The Australian dollar slipped on Tuesday after the country's central bank cut interest rates as expected while highlighting the economic risks from a global trade war,
May 20, 2025
Brazil's economy powered through the first quarter, defying high borrowing costs thanks to a bumper grain harvest and growth in the industrial sector, central bank
May 19, 2025
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May 19, 2025
Japan will not resort to tax cuts funded by additional debt issuance, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Monday, pushing back against political pressure to loosen
May 19, 2025
The Bank of Japan will continue to raise interest rates if the economy rebounds from an expected hit from higher U.S. tariffs, the central bank's deputy governor
May 19, 2025
President Donald Trump on Saturday said in a social media post the U.S. Federal Reserve should cut rates "sooner, rather than later."
May 17, 2025
Capital One has agreed to pay $425 million to settle nationwide litigation accusing it of cheating savings account depositors out of much higher interest rates by not
May 16, 2025
The United States just lost its last perfect credit rating
May 16, 2025
The dollar strengthened on Friday after the latest round of economic data showed a rebound in import prices while consumer sentiment remained subdued as tariff
May 15, 2025
The Bank of Japan must hold off raising interest rates for the time being, its board member Toyoaki Nakamura said on Friday, warning of growing
May 16, 2025
New Zealand's inflation expectations rose in the second quarter to its highest in a year, a Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) survey showed on Friday, as markets expect the central
May 16, 2025
Japan's April core inflation probably rose at its fastest pace in two years on the reduction of energy subsidies and higher food costs, a Reuters poll showed, adding to pressure on
May 16, 2025
Malaysia's economy grew 4.4% in the first quarter of 2025 from a year earlier, slower than the previous quarter, with the central bank
May 16, 2025
TRADING DAY Making sense of the forces driving global markets By Jamie McGeever, Markets Columnist Softer bond yields cushion stocks Cooler inflation
May 15, 2025
Japan's economy shrank for the first time in a year and at a faster pace than expected, data for the March quarter showed on Friday, underscoring the fragile nature of
May 15, 2025
U.S. producer prices unexpectedly fell in April as the cost of services declined by the most since 2009, pulled down by ebbing demand for air travel and hotel accommodation.
May 15, 2025
Most economists now expect the Bank of Japan will hold interest rates through September as it pauses to assess the effects of U.S. tariffs, a Reuters survey
May 15, 2025
Federal Reserve policymakers are leaving interest rates where they are while they try to assess how U.S.
May 14, 2025
Point72 Asset Management’s founder, Steven Cohen, said on Wednesday he believes the U.S. economy will very likely slow down because of tariff threats, but even so
May 14, 2025
Recent inflation data point to continued progress toward meeting the U.S.
May 14, 2025
Australian wages picked up in the March quarter led by government pay rises, data showed on Wednesday, while subdued growth in the private sector suggested a tight
May 14, 2025
Tamer-than-expected inflation and a significant de-escalation of a U.S.-China trade war are easing fears of a sharp squeeze on American households and businesses in coming
May 13, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday repeated his call for the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates, saying prices for gas, groceries and "practically everything else" are down.
May 13, 2025
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May 12, 2025
Recent political events in Turkey stymied the country's path to slowing inflation and the fallout affected the economy as well as foreign exchange reserves, the
May 13, 2025
Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill said on Tuesday that he was worried that inflation in Britain could prove stronger than expected by the central bank and interest rates might
May 13, 2025
The European Central Bank will stand by its aggressive stimulus policy of the last decade in a strategy review, side-stepping calls for self
May 13, 2025
The Bank of Japan expects wages and prices to keep rising even as the uncertainty over U.S. tariff policy weighs on the economy, its deputy governor Shinichi Uchida
May 12, 2025
The Bank of Mexico will likely cut its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points at its meeting on May 15, taking it to 8.5%, according to a Reuters poll on Monday, as
May 12, 2025
Global shares rallied, while gold and safe-haven currencies slumped against a resurgent dollar on Monday as the U.S. and China agreed to
May 11, 2025
The U.S.-China deal to lower the most aggressive import tariffs between the world's two largest economies could lessen the impact of their
May 12, 2025
Bank of England monetary policymaker Megan Greene said on Monday that wage and inflation measures were moving in the right direction but remained too high and that she was worried
May 12, 2025
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole.
May 12, 2025
The European Central Bank should stop cutting borrowing costs as turmoil in the global economy is fuelling price pressures and inflation was at risk of exceeding the bank's 2% target in the
May 09, 2025
President Donald Trump's unfolding trade policy may curb U.S. productivity and possibly require higher interest rates to contain inflation in a less efficient
May 09, 2025
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May 08, 2025
Canada's unemployment rate rose to 6.9% in April, the highest since November, as U.S. tariffs started to hit Canada's export-dependent economy in earnest, data
May 09, 2025
Shares of Expedia fell 7.5% on Friday, after the online travel-booking platform missed Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue due to weak demand in the United
May 09, 2025
Investors head into a busy week for economic data watching if leadership in the U.S. stock market could be moving away from defensive equity areas that indicates
May 09, 2025
U.S. stocks rose on Thursday as investors cheered a new trade agreement hammered out between the United States and Britain, while U.S.
May 08, 2025
The average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the U.S. held steady this week, not far from its highest levels this year, but below where it was a year ago
May 08, 2025
Mexico's annual inflation rate came in line with market expectations in April, official data showed on Thursday, accelerating from the previous month but still within the central bank's
May 08, 2025
Big central banks are diverging as White House tariffs threaten to raise U.S. inflation and a dash out of the dollar sparks disinflationary currency strength
May 08, 2025
The Bank of England is cutting its main interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 4.25% amid concerns over the potential shock to global growth emanating from the tariff policies of the Trump administration
May 08, 2025
A recovery in the currently subdued U.S. residential construction market will inevitably take longer due to interest rates and inflation potentially staying higher for longer, the
May 08, 2025
The Bank of England cuts interest rates as tariffs endanger global economic growth
May 08, 2025
What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Financial Industry and Financial Markets The spotlight hit Britain on Thursday as U.S.
May 08, 2025
The Bank of England cut its main interest rate by 0.25 percentage points to 4.25% on Thursday, though with an unexpected three-way split among policymakers as U.S.
May 08, 2025
Britain's housing market slowed last month after the end of a temporary tax break on home purchases which had seen buyers rush to complete transactions in previous
May 07, 2025
The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday, brushing off President Donald Trump’s demands to lower borrowing costs, and said that the risks of higher unemployment and higher inflation have risen
May 06, 2025
The Bank of England is poised to extend its slow run of interest rate cuts on Thursday with investors watching for any signs that it could soon pick up the pace
May 07, 2025
The U.S. dollar remained slightly stronger against major currencies including the yen and the euro on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve left interest rates
May 07, 2025
After a round-trip for U.S. stocks following their tariff-fueled swoon, investors are wary of obstacles that will prevent the market from more significant gains
May 07, 2025
Activity in Britain's construction sector contracted for a fourth month in a row in April as new work dried up while cost pressures remained high, an industry
May 07, 2025
New Zealand's central bank said on Wednesday that risks to the financial system have increased over the past six months due to a more volatile
May 06, 2025
The dollar fell broadly on Tuesday on worries that U.S.
May 06, 2025
Britain's services sector, accounting for much of the economy, shrank in April for the first time since October 2023 and at the fastest pace in more than two years, according to a
May 06, 2025
European shares extended their winning streak on Monday, with investors focussing on developments from the trade war alongside the U.S.
May 05, 2025
The Federal Reserve will doubtless leave interest rates unchanged on Wednesday, but the meeting may be the last where the outcome is so cut and dry with President Donald
May 05, 2025
Australian financial markets on Monday largely welcomed a historic win by the centre-left Labor Party as it strengthens the government's hand in dealing with any serious threat to
May 05, 2025
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