Economy

By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s official labour market statistics may be failing to count almost 1 million people who are in work, complicating the Bank of England’s task…

By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s exports rebounded in October, led by a pickup in chip equipment demand in China, data showed on Wednesday, suggesting that solid global demand…

(Reuters) – Alibaba (NYSE:BABA), China’s biggest e-commerce company, said on Wednesday it has priced both its US-dollar-denominated and yuan-denominated bonds as part of the $5 billion it had aimed to…

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A federal judge on Tuesday rejected Pfizer (NYSE:PFE)’s bid to recoup about $75.2 million left over from a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission insider…

SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s official statistician has been overestimating the cost of child care in its consumer price index for the past year, but the error will not result in…

By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets.  Geopolitical jitters rippled through world markets on Tuesday but subsided as the U.S. trading session progressed,…

(Corrects to show that Yellen became Council of Economic Advisers chair in 1997, after CDFI fund was launched, in paragraph 2) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former President Bill Clinton will return…

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It remains uncertain how far interest rates can fall, though the initial reductions made by the U.S. central bank are a vote of confidence…

PARIS (Reuters) -Shares in Gucci-owner Kering (EPA:PRTP) rose on Thursday, shrugging off the French luxury goods company’s warning that 2024 operating income would almost halve to its lowest in years…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to pick Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick to serve as Commerce secretary, a Punchbowl reporter said in a post…