DOHA — The United Nations (UN) will stay in Afghanistan to deliver aid to millions of desperate Afghans despite the Taliban’s restrictions on its female staff, but funding is drying up, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday. Mr. Guterres, ...
INCHEON, South Korea — Japan and South Korea held their first finance leaders’ meeting in seven years on Tuesday and agreed to resume regular dialogue as tensions in the wider region and slowing growth prod them to increase cooperation and ...
Nearly three-fifths of small business leaders are expecting revenues to increase this quarter when compared to the first three months of 2023. SME owners are also predicting an average revenue increase of 10 per cent this quarter year-on-year, thanks to ...
BRASILIA – Brazil‘s government and judiciary objected on Tuesday to big tech firms campaigning against an internet regulation bill aimed at cracking down on fake news, alleging undue interference in the debate in Congress. Bill 2630, also known as the Fake ...
WASHINGTON, – The Biden administration does not plan to extend a July 1 deadline for airlines to upgrade airplane altimeters, the measuring instruments that are crucial for bad-weather landings, to address potential interference from 5G wireless technology, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg ...
The United States stands with treaty ally the Philippines in the face of harassment by China‘s coast guard in the South China Sea and remains deeply concerned about “intimidation” by Beijing, a senior US official said on Tuesday. A visit to ...
S&P Global on Tuesday slashed First Republic Bank’s credit rating deeper into junk territory after California banking regulators seized the US lender and sold its assets. S&P cut its rating to ‘CC’ from ‘B+’ and said it expects default to be a ...
Stocks began the day weak — weaker than most traders probably realized. As you can see in the intra-day chart below, short-term momentum, as measured by Real Motion, had rolled on Monday. As a result, when the SPY broke its ...
Last week the House passed legislation increasing the debt ceiling. The bill was supported by all but four Republicans. For some Republicans, this was the first time they had ever voted for a debt ceiling increase. Perhaps the reason they ...
A mom in the neighborhood recently made trouble. Macroeconomic trouble. Here is a way to spot such trouble, and how to help nurture the goodness in our economic way of life. A few months back her boy went door to ...