Apparently unbeknownst to my Republican friends, the effort to cut ‘government waste’ has a long, bipartisan, history in the ...

By Shiran Illanperuma (First part of this article appeared in The Island yesterday (13 Jan.) Sri Lanka in the International Sovereign Bond Debt-Trap Sri Lanka was the original poster child for the ...

Positioned at the geographic and political heart of the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka is the epicentre of the 21st century struggle for regional influence. U.S. Department of State, Integrated Country ...

The consumer price index, an inflation gauge, rose 2.9% on an annual basis in December 2024 on the back of higher food and ...

In today's Chart of the Day, Yahoo Finance host Julie Hyman explores this wage growth pattern, the factors shaping it, and what it means for consumer spending in relation to inflation. To watch ...

Meanwhile, an uptick in unemployment can have a silver lining: As inflation slows and jobless numbers increase, the Fed moves to lower interest rates, just as they did following their November ...

The FT global inflation and interest rates tracker provides a regularly updated visual narrative of consumer price inflation and central bank policy rates around the world. Some content could not ...

Keeping inflation stable and predictable is a key part of the Bank of Canada’s work to support the Canadian economy. The main way the Bank does this is through changes to its policy interest rate.

In an interview with CNBC on Friday, Federal Reserve (Fed) Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee said if conditions are stable and there is no uptick in inflation, with full employment, rates ...

Since higher interest rates are positive for a currency, higher inflation usually results in a stronger currency. The opposite is true when inflation falls. What is the impact of inflation on ...

Mortgage rates can vary depending on several factors, including economic conditions, inflation rates, and the lender's policies. There are two primary types of mortgage rates: fixed-rate and ...

“If you look at the real (inflation adjusted) exchange rate of the pound against the dollar, it has weakened over the past 116 years by a minuscule 0.22pc per year." Commenting on the chart ...