ATHENS (Reuters) -Greek conservatives were leading over the leftist Syriza in elections on Sunday, a joint exit poll by six polling agencies showed. The exit poll gave the conservative New Democracy party between 37.5-41.5% of the vote versus 23.5-27.5% for the Syriza party, which governed the country in 2015-2019, at the peak of Greece’s financial…
(Reuters) – Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said that he could support holding interest rates steady at the central bank’s next meeting in June to give officials more time to assess the effects of past rate increases and the inflation outlook, the Wall Street Journal said on Sunday. “I’m open to the idea that we…
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday drew a parallel between the destruction of Bakhmut and the horror of Hiroshima, evoking the symbolism of mass destruction as he wrapped up a surprise appearance at the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Japan. UKRAINE * U.S. President Joe Biden said he had received a…
By Andrea Shalal and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Sunday said June 1 remains a “hard deadline” for raising the federal debt limit, with the odds quite low that the government will collect enough revenue to bridge to June 15, when more tax receipts are due. Yellen, speaking on NBC’s…
By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jeff Mason HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday said he was willing to cut spending but would not agree to a deal with Republicans in Congress on raising the U.S. federal debt limit and cutting the budget solely on their terms. Speaking at a news conference in…
By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) – The founder of Georgia’s national airline Georgian Airways has banned the country’s president from using its services after she said she would boycott the airline over its resumption of flights to Russia, Russia’s TASS news agency reported on Sunday. Russia announced this month it was lifting a four-year old…
MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s market regulator proposed measures to contain extreme price movements in shares on which futures and options trade, including longer trading suspensions and restricting price movements. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) proposed in a consultation paper late on Sunday that if a share in the futures and options segment…
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Sunday that he backed a Group of Seven (G7) joint statement out of Japan stressing the need to ease reliance on trade with China. The G7 rich nations, which increasingly see China as a economic security threat, on Saturday issued a communique from the city…
HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – Members of the Group of Seven rich nations will ensure big investments in China continue even as they pare risky exposure to the world’s second-largest economy, Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday. G7 leaders are wrapping up a three-day summit in the Japanese city of Hiroshima, where they sent signals…
By Moira Warburton and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration and congressional Republicans traded barbs on Saturday over raising the federal $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, with both sides casting the other’s proposals as too extreme. Officials did not meet on Saturday, after two meetings ended on Friday with no progress cited by…
