As Japan’s yen drifts back to levels that prompted official intervention a month ago, markets are sizing up Tokyo’s remaining financial firepower and political will to defend its ailing currency.
Month: May 2026
The World Health Organisation chief on Saturday called on communities in the centre of the Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak to play a central role in fighting the disease.
Gold is approaching a potential turning point that could decide whether it extends this year’s losses or makes a stand that could facilitate a recovery.
Unrealised losses at U.S. private credit lenders deepened in the first quarter to their worst level since 2022, while the amount of interest income they received in kind, rather than cash, stayed high, filings and data reviewed by Reuters showed.
This week, U.S. inflation hits a three-year high. Fed officials warn that AI – meant to ease inflation – might actually be making it worse.
While U.S.-Canadian relations have frayed under U.S. President Donald Trump, data on Canadian citizenship approvals under recently widened rules suggests many Americans would welcome the chance to become Canadian.
They can back the president’s fund to benefit his allies or defy a commander-in-chief who just ended the careers of two Republican senators.
California will impose a 100% tax on payments distributed under the Trump administration’s nearly $1.8 billion fund for victims of alleged political “weaponization,” the state’s Governor Gavin Newsom announced on Wednesday.
Rescuers pulled four people from a flooded cave in Laos on Saturday, Thai volunteer rescuers said, hours after another man was brought out late on Friday.
Italy has banned two concerts involving U.S. rappers Kanye West and Travis Scott due to take place in July in the northern city of Reggio Emilia, authorities said on Saturday.