By Xie Yu and Makiko Yamazaki HONG KONG/TOKYO (Reuters) – Global hedge funds and asset managers are scouring Tokyo for talent to expand in Japan and ride a surge of investor interest that has lifted the stock market to its highest in more than three decades. Lured by signs of improving governance and better shareholder…
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Financial leaders from the Group of Seven (G7) advanced countries will hold talks on July 16 on the sidelines of the broader G20 meeting in India, Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday. The G7 groups Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States. “Support for Ukraine,…
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The European Commission is helping the United Nations and Turkey try to extend a deal allowing the Black Sea export of Ukraine grain and is open to “explore all solutions,” a European Union spokesperson said on Thursday, ahead of the deal’s possible expiration on Monday. The U.N. and Turkey…
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine has received cluster bombs from the United States, munitions banned in more than 100 countries, but has pledged to only use them to dislodge concentrations of enemy soldiers. Valeryi Shershen, a spokesman for the Tavria, or southern, military district on Thursday confirmed an announcement by his commander that the weapons had arrived…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Australia on Friday appointed Michele Bullock as the next central bank governor, replacing Philip Lowe to become the first female head of the key institution. Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Lowe’s current seven-year term is due to finish on Sept. 17, which will now mark the end of his 43-year career…
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – The head of Australia’s central bank suffered an early end to his 43-year career on Friday as past missteps in pandemic policy so tested public trust in the institution that the government felt compelled to drop him. If there’s a moral to the tale of Reserve Bank of Australia…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia on Friday appointed Michele Bullock as the next central bank governor, replacing Philip Lowe. Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Lowe’s current seven-year term is due to finish on Sept. 17, and will now mark the end of his 43-year career at the bank. (Reporting by Stella Qiu; Editing by Alasdair…
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – The head of Australia’s central bank will not be reappointed for a second term as the Labor government seeks a new pair of hands for an institution scarred by criticism over sharply rising interest rates, several media outlets reported on Friday. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim…
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever, financial markets columnist. Asian equities are on course Friday to round off their best week this year on a high, after the latest sign that U.S. inflation is slowing cemented hopes that Federal Reserve rate hikes are almost…
By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The foreign minister of the Marshall Islands called on Thursday for more U.S. money to deal with the legacy of massive U.S. nuclear testing to enable the renewal of a strategic agreement governing bilateral relations. Marshall Islanders are still plagued by health and environmental effects of 67 U.S. nuclear bomb…
