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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday its executive board approved a proposal for a 50% increase in quota resources to be contributed…

The numbers: The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits last week fell slightly to 217,000 and stayed at very low levels typical of a…

By Steven Scheer and Marc Jones JERUSALEM (Reuters) -A month on from the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas gunmen that killed 1,400 Israelis, investors are gradually…

Did Nikki Haley cross a line when she called Vivek Ramaswamy “scum” during Wednesday night’s U.S. Republican presidential debate? Specifically, Haley, the former governor of South…

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republicans who control the U.S. House of Representatives showed no sign on Tuesday of coalescing around a government funding plan to…

Israel will “begin to implement four-hour pauses in areas of northern Gaza each day, with an announcement to be made three hours beforehand,” White House spokesman…

Lorie Logan, President of the Dallas Federal Reserve, has expressed ongoing concerns about the current inflation rate, which is trending towards 3%, deviating from the Federal…

Bank of America has reported a significant increase in the number of its 401(k) participants accessing their retirement savings early, a trend driven by high inflation…

A market-based measure of future inflation expectations is back near the top of its 10-year range, raising the possibility of more upside risks to price gains…

By Shankar Ramakrishnan (Reuters) – It’s fear and greed in the fixed-income markets once again as traders bet the Federal Reserve is done raising interest rates,…