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Social media report protests by Iranian oil workers for higher wages
(Reuters) - Social media posts on Saturday purported to show a group of protesting oil workers in southern Iran demanding higher wages and retirment bonuses. The reported oil workers' protests, which ...
Dec 17, 2022
Swiss central bank sees onus on Credit Suisse to execute revamp
ZURICH (Reuters) - Credit Suisse needs to execute its revamp successfully and end a string of negative headlines from Switzerland's second-biggest bank, Swiss National Bank Chairman Thomas Jordan said...
Dec 17, 2022
China to maintain ample liquidity in 2023 to implement proactive fiscal policy – state media
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China will maintain reasonably ample liquidity in financial markets while better serving needs from the real economy next year, state media quoted a vice governor of the People's ...
Dec 17, 2022
ZKB not poaching Credit Suisse clients – CEO in paper
ZURICH (Reuters) - Zuercher Kantonalbank is not trying to poach clients from embattled Credit Suisse, the state-backed cantonal bank's chief executive said in a newspaper interview published on Saturd...
Dec 17, 2022
Energy price fall by March is unrealistic, Italian economy minister says
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said on Saturday it was unrealistic to expect energy prices to fall by March and that the war in Ukraine will come to an end. He told an e...
Dec 17, 2022
Japan govt to revise accord with BOJ to make price target flexible -Kyodo
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government is set to revise a decade-old accord with the Bank of Japan (BOJ) stating the central bank will aim to achieve its 2% inflation target "at the earliest possible ti...
Dec 17, 2022
China’s economic output to exceed 120 trln yuan in 2022 -party official
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's economic output is likely to exceed 120 trillion yuan ($17.2 trillion) this year, state media quoted a senior Chinese Communist Party official as saying on Saturday. COVID...
Dec 17, 2022
Turkey extends FX-protected lira deposit scheme for a year
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey extended by a year a scheme that had it adopted in the throes of a 2021 currency crisis which protects lira deposits from depreciation versus hard currencies. A presidentia...
Dec 17, 2022
Egypt’s new IMF agreement aims to reduce government debt – cabinet
CAIRO (Reuters) - The new International Monetary Fund (IMF) $3 billion financial support package for Egypt aims to reduce government debt to less than 80% of the gross domestic product (GDP) in the me...
Dec 16, 2022
Musk says will restore recently suspended journalists’ Twitter accounts
(Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Saturday he will reinstate the Twitter accounts of several journalists that were suspended in a controversy over publishing public data about the billionaire' s plane. "T...
Dec 16, 2022
Peoria, IL, USA
69 °F Thunderstorm In Vicinity
