NatWest Group Plc is reeling from the resignations of two high-level, veteran executives following missteps that placed them — and the bank’s commitments to climate change and building a diverse workforce — smack at the center of the spreading corporate culture wars.
A rallying stock market, cooling inflation and better-than-expected economic data are causing more investors to bet that the Federal Reserve can achieve a “soft landing” in which consumer prices normalize without triggering a recession. Vanguard Group’s economists aren’t buying it.
Bets on a bond-market rally aren’t in the clear just yet.
Hiring in the US probably increased at a healthy yet more moderate clip this month, representing a vote of confidence about the demand outlook after a solid first half of the year.
Canada’s federal government is poised to intervene in a labor dispute to ensure that the country’s busiest port remains open after dockworkers rejected a mediated agreement for the second time this month.
The great credit tightening is finally approaching on both sides of the Atlantic, if the latest surveys of bankers are anything to go by.
Saudi Arabia is set to host talks among Ukraine, some of its key backers and developing nations including India and Brazil early next month, as Europe and Washington intensify attempts to consolidate support for Kyiv’s peace demands, the Wall Street Journal reported.
All the chatter back in December was that 2023 was to be the “year of the bond.” And for a brief moment or two in the winter, that call — and the economic doom-and-gloom that underpinned it — looked right.
Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was charged on Saturday with making statements that fueled deadly protests following his conviction on a separate matter.
Dockworkers on Canada’s west coast raised the possibility of a renewed labor disruption at the country’s busiest port after rejecting a negotiated contract for the second time this month.
