Author Archives: Syndicated Content
For investors, 2024 is year of transition to a new economic order
By Paritosh Bansal (Reuters) - Investors appear convinced that major Western central banks are close to a much awaited pivot, from raising interest rates to cutting them. Markets rallied as a result, ...
Thomson Reuters Jan 02, 2024
No. 2 Washington craves underdog role vs. No. 1 Michigan
The Michigan and Washington programs are familiar with one another from their meetings in the Rose Bowl. They're about to get a whole lot more familiar. They already were scheduled to become conferenc...
Thomson Reuters Jan 02, 2024
Joe unplugged: Biden fundraisers clash with US script, please donors
By Steve Holland, Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As president, Joe Biden has relied heavily on Teleprompters and pre-written scripts for his public speeches, a mostly discipl...
Thomson Reuters Jan 02, 2024
Marketmind: S&P 500 record in view as 2024 begins in same vein
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets by Samuel Indyk A rollercoaster 2023 that ended with an equity rally on hopes for rate cuts amid slowing inflation has extended into the first tradin...
Thomson Reuters Jan 02, 2024
Global factory activity ended 2023 on a soft note
By Indradip Ghosh and Sam Holmes BENGALURU/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Global factories had a weak finish to 2023, with euro zone activity contracting for an 18th straight month in December and Asia's manufact...
Thomson Reuters Jan 02, 2024
Mega-cap companies saw strong gains in 2023 amid tech optimism
(Reuters) - Global mega-cap companies, led by the technology sector, posted solid gains in 2023, boosted by optimism over artificial intelligence, that inflation was peaking and on hopes for further e...
Thomson Reuters Jan 02, 2024
Israel ex-spymaster Zamir, whose 1973 war warning was ignored, dead at 98
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Zvi Zamir, a former head of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad whose warning that Egypt and Syria were about to attack Israel in 1973 was largely ignored by the government, has d...
Thomson Reuters Jan 02, 2024
China lifts policy bank loans, raising housing support expectations
BEIJING (Reuters) -China's central bank made 350 billion yuan ($49.1 billion) in loans to policy banks through its pledged supplementary lending (PSL) facility in December, data showed, fuelling expec...
Thomson Reuters Jan 02, 2024
Indonesia books smallest fiscal deficit in 12 years in 2023
By Stefanno Sulaiman and Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia has reduced its 2023 budget deficit significantly to 347.6 trillion rupiah ($22.48 billion), equivalent to 1.65% of gross domestic ...
Thomson Reuters Jan 02, 2024
Poland says threat level from Russian strikes reduced, planes return to base
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland said on Tuesday that planes protecting its airspace had returned to base after the threat level related to Russian strikes on Ukraine had reduced. Earlier, Poland had deploye...
Thomson Reuters Jan 02, 2024
