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S.Korea to expand corporate-bond buying program – finance minister
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's financial authorities will raise the ceiling for their corporate bond-buying facility to 16 trillion won ($11 billion) from the current 8 trillion won, Finance Minister...
Oct 23, 2022
Analysis-Poor nations face peril over elusive G-20 debt relief push
By Karin Strohecker and Andrea Shalal LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A failure to secure meaningful progress on a debt relief for the world's poorest nations at the International Monetary Fund and Worl...
Oct 23, 2022
Xi says China’s economy has high resilience, room for manoeuvre
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's economy has high resilience, sufficient potential and room for manoeuvre, President Xi Jinping said on Sunday, during a ceremony where China unveiled the new members of its...
Oct 22, 2022
Japan’s stimulus plan must exceed $100 billion, says ruling party executive
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's promised economic stimulus must be big enough to exceed the economy's output gap of about 15 trillion yen ($100 billion), a senior ruling party official said on Sunday. "The ...
Oct 22, 2022
Australia flags increased penalties for data breaches following major cyberattacks
(Reuters) - Australia will introduce laws to parliament to increase penalties for companies subject to major data breaches, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus said, after high-profile cyberattacks hit mill...
Oct 22, 2022
Dietrich Mateschitz, Red bull owner, dies aged 78 – Sky News
(Reuters) - Dietrich Mateschitz, the billionaire founder and owner of energy drink company Red bull, died at the age 78, Sky News reported on Saturday. (Reporting by Akanksha Khushi in Bengaluru; Edit...
Oct 22, 2022
BoE’s Mann: bond purchases for stability were targeted and temporary
LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England policymaker Catherine Mann said on Saturday that bond purchases by the central bank in the days after the government's "mini-budget" fiscal plan last month to calm f...
Oct 22, 2022
Chile’s Entel to sell fiber optic assets for $358 million
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chilean telecoms giant Entel said on Saturday it would sell the assets of its fiber optic business, which provides services to homes, to local company ON*NET Fibra in a deal worth...
Oct 22, 2022
U.S. CDC director tests positive for COVID-19, experiencing mild symptoms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rochelle Walensky, tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday night and is experiencing mild symptoms, the CDC s...
Oct 22, 2022
Bolivian strike over census delay paralyzes agriculture export hub
LA PAZ (Reuters) - Thousands of people in Bolivia launched an indefinite strike on Saturday in the lowland city of Santa Cruz, a major agriculture export hub, to protest the postponement of a populati...
Oct 22, 2022
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