Bank of England expected to hold interest rates The Bank of England voted to hold interest rates at 5.25 per cent. The central bank’s Monetary Policy Committee is widely expected to hold interest rates at 5.25%. 05/8/2024 - 12:33 am | View Link
BOK likely to keep rate unchanged to avoid 'last mile' risk The Bank of Korea (BOK) is expected to keep the base interest rate unchanged this month, mindful of the so-called “last mile” risk, whereby premature monetary easing could disrupt the stable ... 05/7/2024 - 5:51 pm | View Link
US Fed Meeting Outcome highlights: Powell-led FOMC holds rates steady at 5.25-5.50%, cuts Treasury cap to $25 billion Jerome Powell-led rate-setting panel kept interest rates steady at a 23-year high for the sixth straight meeting. The central bank flagged disappointing inflation readings and suggested a possible ... 05/1/2024 - 8:50 pm | View Link
RBA 40-60 hike vs hold, and you can forget about a rate cut in the next 12 months Learn how likely an interest rate hike by the RBA is (hint: it's becoming increasingly likely!), and what is the timing for the first interest rate cut (hint: don't hold your breath!). 05/1/2024 - 4:15 pm | View Link
Hong Kong central bank keeps key rate unchanged, tracks Fed move The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) kept its base rate charged through the overnight discount window unchanged at 5.75% on Thursday, tracking a move by the U.S. Federal Reserve to keep rates ... 05/1/2024 - 3:21 pm | View Link
GENEVA — Conflicts and natural disasters left a record nearly 76 million people displaced within their countries last year, with violence in Sudan, Congo and the Middle East driving two-thirds of new movement, a top migration monitoring group said Tuesday.
The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center report found that the number of internally displaced people, or IDPs, has jumped by 50% over the past five years and roughly doubled in the past decade.
The Biden Administration has announced new tariffs on Tuesday for Chinese made electric vehicles, quadrupling the current tariff from 27.5% to 102.5%, as well as new tariffs on solar cells, steel, and aluminum.
These tariffs are expected to raise $18 billion in imports from China.
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Currently, China exports very few electric vehicles to the U.
Who’s really to blame for the war in Ukraine? Vladimir Putin and his government? Or Russia and its people? Under international law, the answer may seem obvious. The Russian President gave the orders for his military to invade, and he carries ultimate responsibility. But in the 26 months since that calamitous decision, the question of blame has widened in the minds of many Ukrainians.
Twenty-eight-year-old Thai activist Netiporn Sanesangkhom, also known as “Bung,” died in a hospital in Bangkok on Tuesday after going into cardiac arrest. She had been hospitalized following a hunger strike she started in January to protest the country’s judicial system and imprisonment of political dissenters like herself.
Bung’s death comes amid waves of similar hunger strikes initiated by pro-democracy protesters detained in Thailand, which has come under criticism for its ironfisted treatment of activists at odds with the country’s conservative establishment.
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As Gaza solidarity encampments take root at dozens of campuses across the U. S., many Democratic and Republican lawmakers—in addition to President Joe Biden—have accused protestors and colleges of rampant antisemitism.
That’s woefully misguided—and dangerous. Indeed, the blanket assertion by pro-Israel advocates is intended as a political cudgel: weaponizing antisemitism to shield Israel from criticism of its attack on Gaza, which has left at least 35,000 Palestinians dead in the wake of the Oct.
BEIJING — Russian President Vladimir Putin will make a two-day state visit to China this week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
Putin will meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping during his visit starting on Thurday, it said.
The Kremlin in a statement confirmed the trip and said Putin was going on Xi’s invitation.