BEIJING (Reuters) – China is seriously concerned about a report that the United States has stopped approving licences for U.S. companies to export items to tech giant Huawei, a foreign minsitry spokesperson said on Tuesday. “We are closely following relevant developments,” Mao Ning told a regular news briefing in response to a query on the…
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) – Recession worries are sending investors into Treasuries and other fixed income investments ahead of the Federal Reserve’s first meeting of 2023, even as stocks start the year with a hopeful rally. Yields on the benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury note, which move inversely to prices, have fallen by around…
LONDON (Reuters) – Central banks added a whopping 1,136 tonnes of gold worth some $70 billion to their stockpiles in 2022, by far the most of any year since 1967, the World Gold Council (WGC) said on Tuesday. The data underline a shift in attitudes to gold since the 1990s and 2000s, when central banks,…
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Anshuman Daga An impressive 6% rally in global stocks this month, the first gain in January after three years, has got investors all excited after a dismal 2022. Fundamentally, prospects for the world economy are not as bad as feared just a few…
By Chris Taylor NEW YORK (Reuters) – Joe Natiello is facing what you might call a “nice problem to have.” Almost 20 years ago, the 64-year-old Westfield, New Jersey, resident took out a term life insurance policy, to help cover his family in case the worst happened. Next year, though, that policy is elapsing, and…
