Expectations for Brazil’s long-term inflation to start easing -cenbank chief

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s central bank chief Roberto Campos Neto said on Monday that long-term inflation expectations, which have long concerned policymakers, would start to decline and pointed to a clearer economic environment. “We still have a problem with long-term inflation expectations, which are high. We understand that they should start to fall too,” Campos…

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Retailers, manufacturers urge White House to mediate in West Coast ports labor dispute

By David Shepardson and Lisa Baertlein WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Groups representing major retailers and manufacturers urged the White House on Monday to intervene in contentious West Coast port labor negotiations, citing worries about shipping disruptions during critical holiday shopping seasons. The call came after the largest terminal at Southern California’s Port of Long Beach closed…

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Senegalese man warned of gun violence the day he was shot dead in riots

By Edward McAllister and Diadie Ba DAKAR (Reuters) -Elhaji Cisse was busy on Friday, the day he was killed, tweeting hundreds of times as riots erupted beyond the walls of his compound in a busy suburb of Senegal’s capital Dakar. In one post, the 26-year-old student warned his 1,700 followers about security forces firing live…

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