2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (522+ words) SINGAPORE, Sep 11 (Reuters) - The dollar held near its highest levels of the past week and the yen slipped for a second day at the start of Asian trading on Friday as renewed fears of energy supply disruptions in the Middle…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (187+ words) Sept 11 (Reuters) - Global demand for electric vehicles rose for a sixth consecutive month in August, with Europe leading the growth, data from UK-based research firm Benchmark Mineral Intelligence showed on Friday. Sales of battery-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles show growing…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (649+ words) LONDON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Traders in the euro area were bracing for interest rate hikes well into next year on Thursday as the European Central Bank hiked borrowing costs and increased its inflation forecast, just as oil prices jumped again due…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (566+ words) In my column today, I look ahead to Friday's U.S. CPI inflation report, and specifically the importance it has assumed. If it is "hot", the Fed will almost certainly raise rates next week. But how have we got to a place…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (365+ words) PARIS, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The French economy will grow markedly less this year than the government has anticipated as declining purchasing power weighs on consumer spending and firms rein in investment, the national statistics office forecast on Thursday, cutting its outlook....

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (217+ words) FRANKFURT, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank raised some of its growth projections on Thursday and also lifted its inflation outlook, suggesting that it expects a war-induced energy shock to dissipate only slowly. Inflation soared past 3% this summer and is…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (714+ words) By Reinhard Becker and Francesco Canepa BERLIN, Sept 10 (Reuters) - The European Central Bank raised interest rates on Thursday for the second time this year to quell an energy-driven inflation rise and warned that price pressures could prove lasting, fuelling bets…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (232+ words) BERLIN, Sept 10 (Reuters) - European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday rejected French far-left leader Jean-Luc Mélenchon's plan to cancel a portion of France's national debt, calling it "financially dangerous" and legally impossible under EU law. Mélenchon has proposed cancelling…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (783+ words) Following are highlights of ECB President Christine Lagarde's comments at a press conference after the policy meeting. ON HIGH BOND YIELDS "It's not a euro-specific issue. It's happening across the world, and it's a factor of multiple causes. "It's incorporated…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (614+ words) LONDON/SINGAPORE, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Nervy markets were waiting for key U.S. inflation data on Thursday after the ECB lifted its interest rates for a second time this year and oil held above $100 a barrel following U.S. and Iranian tanker missile strikes in…...