The international average rate is 6.3 per cent. Other countries taking a tough stance on environmental protests include Norway at 14.5 per cent, the USA at 10 per cent and Turkey at 8 per cent.

Fed-funds futures traders are around 85% sure the Federal Reserve will deliver a rate cut of 25 basis points next week — that’s a level of confidence that’s pretty much in line with history ...

Xi Jinping has pledged that China will meet its ambitious GDP growth target of 5 per cent this ... hitting a record low as investors bet on further interest rate cuts from the central bank.

The economic environment has shifted over the past few months amidst the election, Federal Reserve rate cuts and stronger-than-expected job growth. However, the housing market remains in a bit of ...

SYDNEY—The board of the Reserve Bank of Australia is expected to keep interest rates unchanged at its policy ... key defining areas like productivity growth.

Mumbai: Banks are unlikely to offer savers higher rates for fresh deposits as credit growth moderation and last week's cut in the cash reserve ratio (CRR) should ensure the lenders have sufficient ...

Malhotra takes over the reins of the banking regulator at a time when the Indian economy is facing a double whammy of rising inflation and slowing growth. While inflationary pall has been building ...

The more things a government taxes, the more is the investment and output that are hidden from it | Photo Credit: PRIYANSHU SINGH The growth rate of the Indian economy came down sharply in the ...

It then tells of the narrator's efforts to discover who the aristocrat was and how, precisely, his father had died; these accounts are interspersed with visions of his father weeping on the bed ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 6 (Reuters) - U.S. job growth surged in November after being severely hindered by hurricanes and strikes, but a rise in the unemployment rate to 4.2% pointed to an easing labor ...

New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) bucked government and growth-related pressures Friday, deciding to keep the benchmark repo rate unchanged at 6.5 percent for the ...

Job growth surged in November ... Economists were anticipating 200,000 jobs were added and a jobless rate remaining at 4.1%, according to consensus estimates on FactSet. November’s report ...