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1 week ago | 
cp24.com | Ethan Wang |Ryan Woo |Kate Mayberry |Kevin Liffey
BEIJING -- Northern China is bracing for typhoon-like gales this weekend, with Beijing postponing major sporting events, closing parks, suspending dozens of train services and warning its 22 million residents against non-essential travel. Dozens of flights were cancelled.
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2 weeks ago | 
today.westlaw.com | Lananh Nguyen |Nupur Anand |Kevin Liffey |Chizu Nomiyama
NEW YORK (Reuters) -JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has warned that trade wars could have lasting negative consequences, days after he and other U.S. bank CEOs met with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to discuss the administration's sweeping...
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3 weeks ago | 
gurutrade.com | Elisha Bala-Gbogbo |Kevin Liffey
ABUJA, April 2 (Reuters) - Nigeria's net foreign exchange reserves stood at $23.11 billion at the end of 2024, their highest level in three years, the Central Bank of Nigeria said, signalling a major improvement in the country's external financial position.
The NFER, which adjusts gross reserves to account for near-term liabilities such as currency swaps and forward contracts, stood at just $3.99 billion at the end of 2023, the CBN said in a statement late on Tuesday.
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1 month ago | 
gurutrade.com | Gleb Bryanski |Kevin Liffey
MOSCOW, March 20 (Reuters) - The Russian rouble weakened further on Thursday, adjusting after a significant rally since the start of the year that has been fuelled by hopes of an easing in geopolitical tensions amid talks between Russia and the United States.
By 0920 GMT, the rouble was down 0.4% at 84.30 against the dollar in the over-the-counter market, extending its losses from the previous session when it fell 2.8%, its biggest daily drop since the beginning of the year.
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1 month ago | 
arizonadigitalfreepress.com | Joey Roulette |Gerry Doyle |Kevin Liffey |Leslie Adler
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 crew members Cosmonaut Mission Specialist Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos of Russia, Pilot Nichole Ayers and Commander Anne McClain of U.S., and Mission Specialist Takuya Onishi of Japan’s JAXA, walk from the Operations & Checkout Building at the Kennedy Space Center for transport to Launch Complex 39-A ahead of their launch to the International Space Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., March 14, 2025.
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1 month ago | 
cp24.com | Joey Roulette |Gerry Doyle |Kevin Liffey
WASHINGTON - NASA and SpaceX hope on Friday to launch a long-awaited crewed rocket that will let them bring home U.S. astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, stuck on the International Space Station for nine months. SpaceX and the U.S. space agency had planned to launch a replacement crew of four astronauts from Florida on Wednesday, a mission called Crew-10, but a last-minute problem with the rocket's ground systems forced a delay.
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1 month ago | 
today.westlaw.com | Stephen Coates |Jody Godoy |Kevin Liffey
(Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday it does not need to delay a September trial against Amazon, reversing an attorney's statement earlier in the day that resource shortfalls due to cost-cutting required an extension....
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1 month ago | 
today.westlaw.com | Kevin Liffey |Tom Balmforth |Max Hunder |Anastasiia Malenko
KYIV (Reuters) -Washington's suspension of military assistance will not lead to a sudden collapse of Ukraine's defensive lines, but it could have a real impact on the war within months, undermining air defences and precision strike capabilities in...
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1 month ago | 
gurutrade.com | Lucia Mutikani |Kevin Liffey
WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. trade deficit in goods widened sharply in January, most likely as businesses front-loaded imports ahead of tariffs, potentially positioning trade to be a drag on economic growth in the first quarter.
The goods trade gap surged 25.6% to $153.3 billion last month, the Commerce Department's Census Bureau said on Friday. Goods imports vaulted 11.9% to $325.4 billion.
President Donald Trump in his first month in office has issued a raft of tariff orders.
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1 month ago | 
gurutrade.com | Promit Mukherjee |Dale Smith |Kevin Liffey |Nick Zieminski
Consumer spending, business investments led Q4 growth
Statscan revised third-quarter growth to 2.2% from 1%
On a monthly basis, GDP expanded by 0.2% in December
January's growth likely to be 0.3%, flash estimate shows
OTTAWA, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Canada's gross domestic product in the fourth quarter expanded by 2.6% on an annualized basis, surpassing widespread expectations, as a jump in consumer spending, business investments and exports lifted growth, data showed on Friday.
