By Harry Robertson LONDON (Reuters) - Bond traders are eyeing a return to a type of trade that left them battered earlier this year - betting on yield curves returning to a more...

By Orathai Sriring and Kitiphong Thaichareon BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand's central bank might hold or raise its key interest rate at its September review as the economy continues...

By Tom Sims FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany has long benefited from an era of cheap money that fuelled a decade-long boom in real estate, but now the sector is grappling with a...

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - Rising U.S. bond yields are unnerving investors and worsening stocks turbulence as markets confront a pileup of unwelcome news, from last...

By Jarrett Renshaw PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Biden administration moved on Tuesday to boost wages and worker protections on federally funded construction projects, drawing the...

By Karen Freifeld and David Shepardson NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday will detail its plans to prohibit some U.S. investments in sensitive technology...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's household borrowing grew in July for a fourth straight month and by the biggest amount in almost two years, central bank data showed on Wednesday,...

By Byron Kaye and Sameer Manekar SYDNEY (Reuters) - Commonwealth Bank of Australia (OTC:CMWAY), the country's biggest lender, posted record annual profit on Wednesday as rising...

By Milounee Purohit BENGALURU (Reuters) - India's retail inflation likely accelerated to 6.40% in July on surging food prices, breaching the upper end of the Reserve Bank of...

By Abhirup Roy and Akash Sriram (Reuters) - Rivian Automotive on Tuesday raised its full-year production forecast, and its chief executive said the electric vehicle maker has...

By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - The Bank of England will not succeed in returning inflation to its 2% target before 2028 at the earliest, according to forecasts from a...

By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) - A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever, financial markets columnist. The first round of top-tier Chinese economic data this...

(Reuters) - Private equity giant KKR said on Tuesday it had acquired a $373 million portfolio of prime auto loans from Synovus (NYSE:SNV) Bank. Shares of Synovus Financial, the...

By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - The shortage of affordable housing in Canada is "a very serious challenge" that could ease as inflation eases and interest rates become more...

By Nupur Anand NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. bank shares slid on Tuesday after Moody's (NYSE:MCO) downgraded several small to mid-sized banks and said it may revise the credit ratings...

By Ann Saphir (Reuters) -Americans borrowed more than ever on their credit cards in the last quarter, the New York Federal Reserve Bank said on Tuesday, with balances surpassing...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two tech groups on Monday backed TikTok in its lawsuit seeking to block enforcement of a Montana state ban on use of the short video...

-- American households are putting it on plastic these days, with credit card balances reaching $1.03 trillion in the second quarter, according to the latest report...

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A prominent hardline conservative from Texas urged his fellow Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday to withhold funding from the...

By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S.-funded assessment of Afghanistan's central bank found that it lacks independence from the Taliban administration and adequate...

By Mark John (Reuters) - China's unexpectedly poor export performance as revealed on Tuesday is still largely down to wider economic headwinds. But underlying trade and investment...

By Dan Burns (Reuters) -Barring any abrupt change in the direction of recent economic data, the U.S. Federal Reserve may be at the stage where it can leave interest rates where...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Tuesday sought to reassure the public after a spate of political scandals rocked his ruling party in recent months...

-- U.S. stock futures point lower ahead of a raft of new corporate earnings that include results from Eli Lilly and UPS. Elsewhere, SoftBank slips to a surprise...

By Lewis Jackson and Praveen Menon SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's third largest pension fund will stay active in Japanese markets in the coming months and is neutral about China...

By Swati Bhat MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's monetary policy committee (MPC) is expected to maintain key rates when it meets on Thursday, but will adopt a far more hawkish tone as the...

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Monday blocked the Biden administration from proceeding with another piece of its student debt relief agenda, a rule that...

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Public debt in most Pacific countries is expected to fall in the next 12 months as countries move towards the gradual unwinding of COVID-19...

By Ana Mano SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil believes European Union rules banning products coming from areas of deforestation are "an affront" of World Trade Organization (WTO)...

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Reserve Bank of New Zealand said on Tuesday that its first life insurance industry stress test showed large insurers are well placed to...

By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - British food price inflation is likely to fall to around 10% later this year, but will need to drop further for overall consumer price...

By Mark John (Reuters) - If medieval advances in the plough didn't lift Europe's peasants out of poverty, it was largely because their rulers took the wealth generated by the new...

By Ann Saphir (Reuters) - Regulatory guidelines issued in late July encouraging banks to incorporate the Federal Reserve's so-called discount window into their contingency funding...

By Uditha Jayasinghe and Swati Bhat COLOMBO (Reuters) -Monetary policy transmission to the real economy in Sri Lanka is still incomplete, the governor of the country's central...

(Reuters) -The contours of the debate at the heart of the Federal Reserve's policy decision next month came into clearer view on Monday as officials outlined the case for and...