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Investing.com — The U.S. dollar climbed higher in early European trade Monday after a healthy jobs report prompted traders to price in a continuation of the Federal Reserve’s hawkish stance. At 03:15 ET (07:15 GMT), the , which tracks the greenback against a basket of six other currencies, traded 0.2%…
By Canan Sevgili (Reuters) -Turkey’s lira extended recent losses, weakening more than 1% against the dollar on Monday, while stocks and dollar-denominated bonds rallied after the appointment of highly-regarded Mehmet Simsek as finance minister. Simsek won markets’ confidence as finance minister and deputy prime minister between 2009-2018 and his appointment…
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) -Signs of de-dollarisation are unfolding in the global economy, strategists at the biggest U.S. bank JPMorgan (NYSE:) said on Monday, although the currency should maintain its long-held dominance for the foreseeable future. The strains of steep U.S. interest rate rises and sanctions that have frozen…
By Karen Brettell NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar fell on Monday on news that the U.S. services sector barely grew in May as new orders slowed, ending an initial rally sparked by strong jobs growth. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) said its non-manufacturing PMI fell to 50.3 last…
By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s government will partially reintroduce a federal diesel tax this year to pay for leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s plan to bring down the cost of vehicles, Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Friday. The plan offers tax credits to manufacturers who…
PARIS (Reuters) – French unions will stage on Tuesday a 14th day of protests against government plans to raise the retirement age to 64, in what could be a final attempt to pressure lawmakers into scrapping a law that is already on the statute books. President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to…
By Tom Wilson and Hannah Lang LONDON/WASHINGTON(Reuters) -The world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange Binance and its CEO Changpeng Zhao have been sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which alleged in a June 5 court filing that the firm operated a “web of deception” that included artificially inflating its…
(Reuters) – The Australian corporate regulator said on Tuesday that it had urged companies to make full disclosures of impact of COVID-19 and rising interest rates on asset valuations in their upcoming full-year and half-year results. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) said in a statement that directors should…
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The deal to end the United States’ debt limit standoff was classic Joe Biden politics: eke out a narrow compromise from an ugly beginning and declare victory. Biden’s pact with Republican Kevin McCarthy suspends the $31.4 trillion U.S. debt ceiling, avoiding an economic crisis, in…
The Federal Reserve faces many distractions right now, from curbing inflation to keeping a vulnerable mid-size banking sector from roiling the financial system. But there’s one threat on the horizon that dwarfs them all. That’s the threat of a future quantum computer attack on our financial sector. It’s a threat…