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The US labor market is changing in significant ways, as shown by the latest data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. There are jobs aplenty, with 11.4 million job openings in April, even if this is a slight decrease from the month before. Acco...

New Zealand's central bank announced a fifth straight interest rate hike this week and hinted at a much more aggressive monetary policy tightening as central bankers try to tame runaway inflation. The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) lifted...

Inflation in the UK leapt to its highest annual rate since 1982, putting severe pressure on Finance Minister Rishi Sunak to do more to help families facing a cost-of-living crisis. Consumer price inflation touched 9% in April, recalling the peaks...

Japan's economy contracted for the first time in two quarters, as COVID-19 curbs affected the performance of the services sector, and the Ukraine war continued to inflate commodity prices and create headaches for consumers.  The world&rsq...

China has posted troubling economic data for April, revealing the severe damage COVID lockdowns have wreaked on the country. The world's second largest economy reported alarming drops in retail sales and manufacturing production, falling short...

Several business groups in Sri Lanka have asked the president to install a new government and resign immediately thereafter. With little more than $50 million in foreign exchange reserves, Sri Lanka is basically bankrupt and dependent on external...

The US Federal Reserve announced an interest rate hike of a half-percentage point in an attempt to take control of the worst inflation America has seen in 40 years. The central bank has not hiked rates this much in 22 years. The decision was unani...

India's Tata Motors is taking a frugal approach to entering the electric vehicle (EV) market. The company makes a little more than 100 EVs a day at its Pune plant, with many processes being carried out by hand to save money. Competitive protec...

South Korea, Asia’s fourth-largest economy, saw its consumer price index rise to 4.8% in April from 4.1% in March. The country’s consumer prices rose in April at their fastest pace in nearly 14 years due to red-hot food and energy pric...

Europe's stock markets consolidated strong gains made in Asia on Thursday, after the US Federal Reserve pressed ahead with its first interest rate rise in more than three years. The EuroSTOXX 600 was steady, 0.1% lower after an initial rise. T...

In a much-anticipated move, the US Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time since 2018. The American central bank is hoping that higher interest rates, in concert with reduced pandemic-era fiscal support, will help reduce inflation....

With Russia no longer a market that investors can enter since the invasion of Ukraine, other emerging economies have started to take on new appeal. Several major US index providers have removed Russian stocks from their indexes. Trading shares of...

The global economy was still in turmoil at the start of the second week of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with most markets losing value as investors remained deeply shaken. On Wall Street, Dow futures slid 1.7%, nearly 600 points. Meanwhile,...

The global economy went into a tailspin on the morning that Russia attacked Ukraine, ending weeks of diplomatic efforts to avert the crisis. US stock futures plunged on Thursday. Dow futures were down as much as 780 points, or 2.4%. S&P 500 an...

The sterling edged upwards after the UK’s inflation numbers soared to a nearly 30-year high, prompting widespread expectations that the Bank of England (BoE) would further hike interest rates. The annual rate of consumer price inflation rose...