LONDON (Reuters) – British businesses were their most optimistic in nearly a year in April, boosted by growing hopes about the economy, according to a Lloyds Bank survey on Friday that could add[...]
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April 27, 2023
Wall St rallies as earnings season boost offsets economy worries
By Sinéad Carew, Sruthi Shankar and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) – The tech-heavy Nasdaq led a Wall Street rally on Thursday as a strong quarterly report from Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc overs[...]
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Fed emergency lending to banks ticks up modestly in latest week
By Michael S. Derby (Reuters) -Federal Reserve emergency lending to banks rose modestly in the latest week and remained at very high levels, even as many central bankers argue the worst of the banking[...]
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Democrats, Republicans dig in on debt-ceiling standoff after House action
By David Morgan and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate showed no sign of moving to avoid a looming debt-ceiling crisis on Thursday, as Republicans rejected calls to raise the $[...]
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New Colombia finance minister seeks to calm market as bonds, peso suffer
LONDON/BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombia’s incoming finance minister Ricardo Bonilla and President Gustavo Petro sought to calm the market on Thursday as the peso currency, bonds and the stock exchange[...]
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Wall Street notches biggest gain in months, Treasury yields rise on solid earnings
By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks closed sharply higher on Thursday and Treasury yields resumed their climb as strong earnings helped investors look past signs of economic weaknes[...]
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Argentina seeks to tame inflation, peso with biggest rate hike since 2019
By Jorge Otaola BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina’s central bank hiked its benchmark interest rate a huge 10 percentage points to 91% on Thursday as it tries to tame high inflation and steady th[...]
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Oil steadies after Russia says global oil markets in balance
By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) – Oil prices steadied on Thursday, paring losses from the previous session, after a top Russian official said global oil markets were balanced. Russian Depu[...]
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US dollar edges higher as GDP, jobless claims affirm rate hike bets
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar rose on Thursday as weaker-than-expected U.S. economic growth in the first quarter is viewed as not likely to deter the Federal Reserv[...]
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