DUBAI (Reuters) – Net foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to Saudi Arabia rose 5.6% to 9.5 billion riyals ($2.53 billion) in the first quarter of 2024, government data showed on…
MANILA (Reuters) – The World Bank said on Saturday its board of executive directors has approved $1.25 billion in loans for the Philippines’ education and public infrastructure sectors. In a…
By Maytaal Angel LONDON (Reuters) – World cocoa prices rose back above $10,000 a ton on Thursday, heading towards the year’s record peaks as the chocolate industry’s supply crisis worsened…
SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s major state-owned banks were seen selling dollars for yuan in the onshore spot foreign exchange market on Tuesday to prevent the local currency from falling too…
By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) – Standard & Poor’s (S&P) decision to downgrade its rating on France’s sovereign debt should in the short term deliver more political sting than pain…
PARIS (Reuters) – The European Central Bank has plenty of room for rate cuts and current market expectations for easing over the long-run are reasonable, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Euro zone inflation remains on track to fall back to 2% next year, so European Central Bank policymakers will likely start cutting interest rates from a record high…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. mortgage rates fell this week for the first time in more than a month amid signs of slowing economic activity, but remain too high to provide…
By Leika Kihara WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Thursday the central bank may raise interest rates again if the yen’s declines significantly push up inflation,…
By Federico Maccioni and Alun John DUBAI/LONDON (Reuters) -Gulf markets dropped slightly on Sunday, an early indication of investor reaction to Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israeli territory, as investors prepared…
