By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian household spending on non-food items such as transport, garments and entertainment rose in both rural and urban areas in 2023/24 while outlays…

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s consumer prices rose less than expected in the month to mid-December, government statistics agency IBGE said on Friday, an outcome insufficient, however, to lead economists to…

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s jobless rate hit a fresh record low in the three months through November, official data showed on Friday, but job creation slowed to its lowest…

(This Dec. 23 story has been corrected to fix the Los Bronces output figures in 2023 to 215,500 metric tons of copper, not 255,000 tons, in paragraph 3) By Fabian…