IMF Sees Emerging Markets Still Losing Steam, Cautious on Euro Zone

... said on Tuesday, as exchange rate swings and oil prices plunge ... burdens, impaired balance sheets, high unemployment and investor pessimism about prospects ...

‘Civil War’ Brewing Over Disputed Greek Gold Mine

... recession-hit country where the unemployment rate now stands at over 25 ...

Commentary: US Data Gets Ropey, Investors Get Fed-Happy

... about the more important rate of ascent at which ... the future path of rate rises will be closer to ... As it moves towards a rate hike, even a delayed ... to 5.2 percent rate the Fed thinks the ... seen previous to March before unemployment’s trajectory into next ...

Australian Rate Cut Irresistible as Iron Ore Tumbles Below $50

... Australia will reduce the cash rate by a quarter point ... its 3 percent potential rate and unemployment is poised to keep ... of 10 economists forecasting a rate cut on April 7, ... for the main policy rate at the end of ... the Fed pushed back rate hike plans and the ...

Negative Yields Have Investors Clamoring

... consumer prices and stubbornly high unemployment prompted the ECB to step ... ’s stimulus and negative deposit rate are sapping liquidity and making ...

Obamacare Helps Heal Health of US Employment Rate

... jobs in February and the unemployment rate fell to 5.5 percent ...

Thailand Ages Itself Out of Asean Growth

... . The annual population growth rate for the 2010 to 2015 ... efforts to boost the fertility rate include encouraging married couples ... contraceptives to the poor as unemployment rises. Tax breaks An ... has the lowest real investment rate to gross domestic product ...

Yellen to Lead a Less ‘Predictable’ Fed To Rate Hike

... , officials would be making rate decisions meeting-by-meeting, ... of the benchmark federal funds rate. Yellen and Vice Chairman ... limit talk about future rate decisions because getting too ... linked to threshold rates for unemployment and inflation, before moving ...

Suburb With 27% Jobless Shows Danger of Australian Recession

... Melbourne suburb with 27 percent unemployment, Soney Kul is struggling ... after economists were forecasting interest-rate increases in 2015, the ... more, and the saving rate has increased,” RBA Deputy ... has not occurred.” Crime rate The difficulties in Broadmeadows ...

Forecasting Errors Reveal Swedish Central Bank’s Fall From Grace

... 2011. Unemployment remains close to 8 percent, Scandinavia’s highest rate. The ... the minutes of the September rate meeting. “Biased forecasts provide an ...