Economic News

By Tommy Wilkes LONDON (Reuters) - Recent sharp selloffs across global financial markets are probably the first of many, as investors adjust to a world of tighter monetary...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Thousands of people marched in Brussels on Sunday against a U.N. pact aimed at fostering cooperation on migration, eclipsing a smaller demonstration in...

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - ZIRP. ZLB. ELB. Whatever the acronym, when the U.S. Federal Reserve dropped its policy rate to near zero on Dec. 16, 2008, to counter a...

By Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In June 2006, the U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates for a 17th consecutive time but cushioned the...

Investing.com - After another volatile week of trading worldwide, there’s a lot to keep investors on edge in the week ahead. The Federal Reserve is widely expected to...

LONDON (Reuters) - A zoo in northern England said its animals were safe after a fire broke out on Saturday in its Monsoon Forest section, the largest indoor zoological building in...

PISA, Italy (Reuters) - The spread of illiberal ideology is threatening the euro but it is an illusion that leaving it would offer an easier path, European Central Bank President...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Trade Representative's office on Friday officially changed the scheduled date of a tariff rate increase on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Once a month, the Treasury Department reveals how much money the U.S. government took in and spent the month before. The November numbers came out Thursday,...

(Bloomberg) -- High expectations often come at a cost. For Chile’s President , the second year in office looks to be riddled with challenges in keeping up with lofty promises...

(Bloomberg) -- Mexican lawmakers from Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s party are aiming to pass the president’s 2019 budget proposal within eight days of its presentation...

(Bloomberg) -- Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte insisted after meeting European Union leaders that his government could not improve on its new deficit target offering, as he...

(Bloomberg) -- A borrowing spree by the Canadian government and the country’s provinces is threatening to increase costs for companies just as the economy turns, according to...

(Bloomberg) -- In the corridors of the U.K. Parliament, an idea that four months ago seemed laughable is now being seriously discussed. Is another referendum a way out of the...

By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Although the main banks have stepped up preparations for a potential no-deal Brexit, UK-based payment firms used by European Union customers are...

LONDON (Reuters) - A British woman who illegally imported and sold fashion accessories made from python skin was convicted on Friday, London police said. Stephanie Scolaro, 26,...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi told European Union leaders on Friday that growth was slower than previously forecast and urged them...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will suspend additional tariffs on U.S.-made vehicles and auto parts for three months starting Jan. 1, 2019, the country's finance ministry said on...

(Reuters) - Following are five big themes likely to dominate thinking of investors and traders in the coming week and the Reuters stories related to them. 1/PUT UP, THEN SHUT UP...

(Bloomberg) -- European Central Bank officials acknowledged deepening uncertainty over the euro-area outlook as they addressed market expectations that they won’t be able to...

(Bloomberg) -- China took more steps to defuse trade tensions with the U.S., confirming it will remove the retaliatory duty on automobiles imported from America and preparing to...

By Gabriela Baczynska and Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Dutch fudge is off the summit table as EU lawyers look closer to home in Belgium for a model of what leaders can...

ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss government approved on Friday the text of a trade deal with Britain that aims to maintain economic and commercial relations with its sixth-biggest...

ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss government will seek investors for a minority stake in SBB federal railways' cargo business, it said on Friday. It gave no further details in a...

VIENNA/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank policymaker Ewald Nowotny challenged a choir of cautious comments from his colleagues on Friday, saying the ECB had achieved its...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Housing market softness in the back half of 2018 has investors and the public wondering how bad things might get. It’s understandable that people would...

Investing.com - Here are the top five things you need to know in financial markets on Friday, Dec. 14: 1. Attention turns to deluge of U.S. data Among the downpour of U.S....

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Investment funds should be supervised at a European, rather than national levels, because a crisis there would be felt across the region, the vice president...

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Theresa May's inability to extract any concessions from European Union leaders on Thursday showed a complete failure of British diplomacy,...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Growth in Germany, Europe's biggest economy, will slow in the coming years, the Bundesbank said on Friday, cutting its forecasts in a biannual review...

By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Lawmakers from Japan's ruling coalition said on Friday they will give tax breaks to car buyers to offset a sales tax hike planned for...

By Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) - China's trade war with the United States is spurring some Chinese entrepreneurs, government advisers and think-tanks to call for faster...

(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve officials will pull the trigger on another interest-rate increase next week before slowing the pace of hikes in 2019 as risks to the U.S. economy...

By Sue-Lin Wong SHENZHEN, China (Reuters) - For four years at the turn of the century, Wang Zhaohong worked on a demolition crew in Shenzhen, clearing the way for the once-tiny...

By Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan should raise its sales tax above the planned 10 percent to cope with increased social welfare costs as the population ages and declines,...