Latest US Jobs Report Bolsters Case for Fed Rate Increase in June

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China Lowers Growth Goal as Li Flags Challenges

... prompted the second interest-rate cut in three months ... aim to keep the urban unemployment rate under 4.5 percent, ... Policymakers will flexibly use interest rate and required reserve ratio tools ... development requires an appropriate growth rate,” Li said in the ...

RBA Holds Rates ‘for Time Being’

... central bank held its cash rate steady on Tuesday to confound ... than two years, pushing up unemployment and dragging down inflation. Particularly ... for the year. That annual rate would actually be faster than ...

Commentary: Trying to Change English’s Complex Spelling Is a Waste of Time

... does make it harder. The rate of dyslexia in countries like ... at significantly higher risk of unemployment, social exclusion, poor health and ...

Australia's RBA Swept Along in Global Stimulus Rush

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Upbeat Consumers Propel US Q4 Growth

... a 4.2 percent annualized rate in the fourth quarter, the ... timing of their first interest rate increase since 2006. The central ... range for the federal funds rate on a meeting-by- ... further gradual decline in the unemployment rate.” One area struggling to sustain ...

Asian and African Emerging Markets Stay on Top of Growth Predictions

... bank cut its benchmark interest rate in November for the first ... percent in 2015, even as unemployment and poverty remain stubbornly high ... 2006. Their benchmark federal funds rate has remained near zero since ...

Yellen Faces Senate Grilling on Fed Rate Policy, Transparency

... Fed’s timing on interest rate hikes, as well as fresh ... feels the nation’s falling unemployment rate disguises lingering ills in the ... grow at a healthy rate, and the unemployment rate is dropping. But inflation ...

Fed’s Rate Hike Timing Is Back In the Spotlight

... -year for its first interest rate rise in a decade, it ... be backing off a June rate rise. But the strongest set ... Fed meeting took place. “If unemployment keeps falling, the laws of ...

‘Grexit’ Would Be No Easy Ride for Austerity-Weary Greeks

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