WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Core inflation rates in the euro zone will begin improving in the coming months, but the European Central Bank still has a way to go with monetary policy, ECB policymaker Joachim Nagel said on Thursday. “We expect core inflation will show first movements in the right direction before the summer break,” the…
By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s biggest asset manager, Legal & General Investment Management (LGIM), said on Thursday it would back a number of climate-focused shareholder resolutions at the annual meetings of eight leading U.S. and Canadian banks. LGIM, insurer Legal & General’s fund arm, which manages around $1.5 trillion, said it was going public…
(Reuters) – Brazil’s Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Thursday that the central bank has an opportunity to lower interest rates to help boost economic growth as fiscal and monetary policies are converging. “I want to believe that the central bank has a window of opportunity that I hope will be taken advantage of so…
By Balazs Koranyi WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The European Central Bank needs to keep raising rates given stubbornly high underlying inflation and its next move could be either a 25 or a 50 basis point increase, Governing Council member Bostjan Vasle said on Thursday. The ECB has raised rates by a record 350 basis points since…
By Chris Taylor NEW YORK (Reuters) – Face it, we could all use a little help with our money. So who better to ask for personal finance advice than a couple of the most powerful chatbots on the planet? Both OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard are dominating headlines recently, for their generative capabilities and vast…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. producer prices unexpectedly fell in March as the cost of gasoline declined, and there were signs that underlying producer inflation was subsiding. The producer price index for final demand dropped 0.5% last month, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Data for February was revised to show the PPI unchanged instead of…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Half of U.S. Republicans think a federal court was motivated by politics when it ordered the suspension of government approval for a widely used abortion pill, a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Wednesday found. Fifty-one percent of self-identified Republicans in the poll said they agreed that the ruling last week – which would…
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Global creditors, debtor nations and international financial institutions on Wednesday agreed ways to jumpstart and streamline long-stalled debt restructuring efforts, including through improved data sharing and clearer timetables. The World Bank, International Monetary Fund and India, current president of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies, issued a joint…
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) -Investment firm Pura Vida is wading into a boardroom battle at global aesthetics device company Cutera Inc by warning warring directors on Tuesday it may push ahead with steps to boost the company’s share price if they fail to settle their disagreements. Also on Tuesday, 10 company executives, including…
By Lawrence Delevingne (Reuters) – As First Republic Bank’s share price fell by double-digits in the aftermath of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank last month, some people close to the San Francisco-based lender were worried short sellers were exacerbating its travails, according to a source familiar with the situation. Investors who wager shares in…
