Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Take Five: Give me an FOMC, BOE, BOJ and SNB
It's a central-bank heavy week ahead, with the U.S. Federal Reserve expected to deliver its second straight half-point rate hike to bring inflation under control. Britain and Sweden, too, will likely ...
Thomson Reuters Jun 10, 2022
IMF delegation to visit crisis-hit Sri Lanka this month for talks
COLOMBO (Reuters) - An International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation will visit Sri Lanka on June 20 for talks as the country looks for a loan programme from the lender to deal with its worst economic ...
Thomson Reuters Jun 10, 2022
Goodbye Golden Arches: rebranded McDonald's to reopen in Russia
(Reuters) - Sunday marks a new dawn for Russia's fast-food lovers as former McDonald's Corp restaurants reopen under new branding and ownership, more than three decades after the arrival of the hugely...
Thomson Reuters Jun 10, 2022
Skating-ISU elects former Korea Skating Union head as president
(Reuters) - South Korea's Kim Jae-youl was elected president of the International Skating Union (ISU) on Friday, becoming the first non-European to head the world governing body. Kim won 77 out of 119...
Thomson Reuters Jun 10, 2022
Russian rouble firms ahead of expected interest rate cut
(Reuters) - The Russian rouble firmed on Friday, heading back towards a more than two-week high hit in the previous session with the support of capital controls, as the market awaited an expected rate...
Thomson Reuters Jun 10, 2022
China's May vehicle sales fall 12.6%, industry body says
SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's auto sales fell 12.6% in May from a year earlier, data showed on Friday, but the extent of the decline improved from April's falls as authorities rolled out stimulus to sup...
Thomson Reuters Jun 10, 2022
Australia's longest-running soap Neighbours calls it a wrap
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - Neighbours, the Australian soap opera that launched the careers of Kylie Minogue, Margot Robbie, Guy Pearce and all three Hemsworth brothers, shot its last episode on ...
Thomson Reuters Jun 10, 2022
Turkish unemployment rises to 11.3% in April
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's unemployment rate rose to 11.3% in April, while a seasonally adjusted measure of labour underutilisation fell 10 percentage points to 21.7%, data showed on Friday. The la...
Thomson Reuters Jun 10, 2022
Timeline- Turkey caught in a spiral of lira crises
By Karin Strohecker (Reuters) - Turkey's lira has lost nearly a quarter of its value this year as soaring inflation and the central bank's reluctance to raise interest rates stoke fears of another cur...
Thomson Reuters Jun 10, 2022
European shares slip ahead of U.S. inflation data
(Reuters) - European shares on Friday extended losses to a fourth consecutive session, ahead of U.S. inflation data that could spur more speculation about the Federal Reserve's policy decision next we...
Thomson Reuters Jun 10, 2022
