By David Stanway SHANGHAI (Reuters) -The cost of raising a child in China stands at nearly seven times its per capita GDP, far more than in the United States and Japan, highlighting the challenges facing Chinese policymakers as they try to tackle rapidly declining birth rates, new research showed. Experts warn China’s ageing population will …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told BFM TV and RMC Radio on Wednesday that he was keeping a close eye on rising wheat prices, which could add to inflationary pressures affecting many consumers in France. The Euronext wheat price surged on Tuesday to close near a four-week peak hit earlier in …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Wednesday that the sanctions imposed by the Western countries on Russia for ordering troops into separatist regions of eastern Ukraine would have a “relatively” limited impact on the French Economy. He also told RMC Radio and BFM TV that he was monitoring the evolution …
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ZURICH (Reuters) -The European Central Bank could begin increasing interest rates before ending its bond purchasing programme, ECB policymaker Robert Holzmann said, challenging the bank’s long-held view on the sequence of its upcoming policy moves. With inflation hitting fresh record highs in recent months, the ECB recently walked back on a pledge not to raise …
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By Lucy Raitano LONDON (Reuters) – Inflation will have the biggest impact on global markets in 2022, traders said, while liquidity was the top daily trading challenge for a sixth year, according to an annual survey of institutional trading clients by JPMorgan published on Wednesday. About 48% of 718 institutional trading clients surveyed at the …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -The United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) office said on Tuesday it opposed Canada’s plan to enact a digital services tax (DST) and urged Canada to abandon plans for such a step. “The United States urges Canada to abandon any plans for a unilateral measure and instead redouble its commitment to the …
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By Lawrence White, Alexandra Schwarz-Goerlich and Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON/VIENNA/LONDON (Reuters) -European banks on Tuesday were bracing for the fallout from fresh global sanctions as the Ukraine crisis escalated, although U.S. bank executives said they expected the industry to be insulated from major disruption after pulling back from Russia in recent years. Europe’s banks – particularly …
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(Reuters) – The United States imposed sanctions on Russia’s VEB Bank and Promsvyazbank on Tuesday, according to statement from the U.S. Treasury Department, after Moscow formally recognized two regions of eastern Ukraine as independent. “Today’s actions, taken in coordination with our partners and allies, begin the process of dismantling the Kremlin’s financial network and its …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Russian central bank still expects inflation to return to its 4% target in mid-2023, news agencies cited Deputy Governor Alexei Zabotkin as saying on Tuesday, as the rouble dived past 80 against the U.S. dollar on geopolitical concerns. The sharp drop in the rouble from levels of around 70 to the …
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By Naveen Thukral and Gavin Maguire SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Escalating tensions between global crop heavyweights Russia and Ukraine are likely to force wheat, corn and sunflower oil buyers to seek alternative shipments, driving up world food prices already near multi-year highs, analysts and traders said. Global stock markets tumbled while crude oil surged on Tuesday …
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