Category Archives:

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand's central bank raised interest rates by 50 basis points to a more than 14-year high of 4.75% on Wednesday, and said it expects to keep tightening further to ensure i...

By Rae Wee SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar and sterling were buoyant on Wednesday, after a surprise rebound in business activity in the United States and the UK raised the likelihood that their respe...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The second of two reputed gang members jailed in the execution-style killings of six people in a central California farming town last month, including an infant...

By Isla Binnie and Simon Jessop NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major U.S. pension fund CalPERS is seeking a meeting with rail operator Norfolk Southern at which it plans to ask about the derailment of a train l...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian wages grew at the fastest annual pace in a decade last quarter but that was still short of market forecasts and could lessen the pressure for further aggressive hikes in ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor Corp, the world's biggest automaker, is set to accept the union's demand in full for a rise in wages and bonus payments for the third consecutive year, the Asahi newspap...

By Junko Fujita TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei 225 share index will hit the psychological 30,000 level by end-2023 on a better domestic corporate and global economic outlook in the latter part of th...

By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) - British employers offered the biggest annual pay rises in 32 years during the three months to the end of January, but these increases are still a long way behind do...

LONDON (Reuters) - Global shipping companies are exploring ways to boost safety in transporting cargoes as risks grow from fires erupting inside containers or in cars at sea, officials said on Wednesd...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea launched a task force on Wednesday to study ways to improve business practices and pay schemes at banks, days after the country's president called on lenders to help curb...