Economy

By Thomas Escritt and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) – Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Wednesday appealed to parties to pass measures such as raising child benefit and lifting tax thresholds before…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is expected to join President-elect Donald Trump at the meeting of U.S. House of Representatives’ Republicans on Wednesday morning, the New York Times…

(Reuters) – Traders of contracts that settle to the Federal Reserve’s policy rate moved Wednesday to price in a firmer chance of another quarter-point interest-rate cut at the central bank’s…

By Sruthi Shankar (Reuters) – The main UK stock indexes slipped on Wednesday as traders awaited key U.S. inflation data to gauge the path of monetary policy, while defence company…

By Sarupya Ganguly BENGALURU (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s presidential election win has forced bond strategists to make a material change in their outlook towards higher longer-dated Treasury yields, a Reuters…

Investing.com – The dollar index and dollar index futures edged down slightly in European trade on Wednesday after slipping from a four-month high in the prior session. Traders had previously piled…

BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Wednesday unveiled tax incentives to support the ailing property sector, which will take effect from Dec. 1 this year, according to a finance ministry statement.…

LONDON (Reuters) – The new Labour government must re-think the timing of tax rises imposed in last month’s budget and instead phase them in if it wants to avoid fuelling…

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s government is considering restarting subsidies for electricity and gas prices from January next year, and continuing them until March in response to high fuel costs, public…

By Harry Robertson BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Hedge funds are becoming increasingly active in Europe’s bond markets and, so far, they have brought with them more benefits than risks, Italy’s debt…