BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Euro zone economic growth slowed as expected in the last three months of 2019 as gross domestic product shrank in France and Italy against the previous quarter, but employment growth picked up more than expected, official estimates showed on Friday. The European Union’s statistics office Eurostat said GDP in the 19 countries […]
By Leika Kihara and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – The coronavirus may offer the Bank of Japan justification to scrap what has become an obsolete, largely symbolic bond-buying target as it takes stronger action to cushion the economic blow from the pandemic, analysts say. But it could push the BOJ closer to debt monetisation, or […]
Some Israeli officials signalled they want approval from the US before pushing for annexation of the occupied West Bank. The United States will not consent to Israeli annexations in the occupied West Bank for “some time”, preferring to focus on the Israel-UAE normalisation deal and wider regional peace efforts, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner […]
