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Morning Bid: Ailing dollar gets toehold as Fed awaited
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) - What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-at-Large, Finance and Markets With a first Federal Reserve interest rate cut of 2025 now considered...
Thomson Reuters Sep 17, 2025
African manufacturers in last-ditch bid to extend US trade programme
By Aaron Ross NAIROBI (Reuters) - African manufacturers are lobbying U.S. Congress to grant a last-ditch extension of one or two years to a duty-free trade programme due to expire at the end of Septem...
Thomson Reuters Sep 17, 2025
Thailand's strong baht threatens exports, tourism amid global headwinds
By Orathai Sriring and Thanadech Staporncharnchai BANGKOK (Reuters) -The strengthening of Thailand's currency to a four-year high is a threat to exports and tourism, two key growth engines for the str...
Thomson Reuters Sep 17, 2025
Recliners, rumbles, and reboots: Theaters bet big on movie magic
By Harshita Mary Varghese and Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) -With a $5 million makeover, Phoenix Theatres transformed a 10-screen cinema at Cleveland's Great Northern Mall into a cinematic escape where w...
Thomson Reuters Sep 17, 2025
Peoria Heights trustees call for override vote on mayor's grocery tax veto
PEORIA HEIGHTS, Ill. - Village trustees in Peoria Heights will vote next month to override the mayor's veto of a 1-percent local grocery tax that would replace a similar state tax expiring at the end ...
Julia Bradley Sep 17, 2025
Analysis-Fed rate cuts could set stage for broader US stock gains
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) -The resumption of monetary easing by the U.S. central bank could add to and broaden Wall Street's rally, investors say, though such a boost might already be pric...
Thomson Reuters Sep 17, 2025
Indonesia sovereign wealth fund INA targets data centres, AI in healthcare, renewables
By Yantoultra Ngui SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The Indonesia Investment Authority is prioritising digital infrastructure, healthcare and renewables as the sovereign wealth fund seeks foreign partners and su...
Thomson Reuters Sep 17, 2025
Former US CDC chief Monarez to accuse Kennedy of politicizing agency in Senate testimony
By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. CDC Director Susan Monarez will tell a Senate panel on Wednesday that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. required her to seek her own politica...
Thomson Reuters Sep 17, 2025
Fed expected to cut rates, update views of Trump economic plan with new projections
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The most politically charged U.S. Federal Reserve meeting in years wraps up on Wednesday with broad expectations for a quarter-percentage-point interest rate ...
Thomson Reuters Sep 17, 2025
Exclusive-Government lawyers objected to new powers for Kennedy's COVID vaccine adviser
By Julie Steenhuysen and Chad Terhune (Reuters) -U.S. government lawyers attempted to block a vaccine skeptic appointed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. from assuming new powers at the Cente...
Thomson Reuters Sep 17, 2025

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