Economy

Washington (AFP) - A senior Federal Reserve official said Thursday that the US central bank will likely start cutting interest...

Lagos (AFP) - The governor of Nigeria's Lagos state on Thursday unveiled a series of measures aimed at easing the...

Washington (AFP) - The Israel-Hamas war has had a "catastrophic" impact on Gaza's infrastructure and caused its economy to contract...

Washington (AFP) - Existing home sales in the United States crept up in January, according to industry data released Thursday,...

Istanbul (AFP) - Turkey's central bank maintained its key interest rate at 45 percent on Thursday, marking the end of...

Tokyo (AFP) - Before Japan's asset bubble catastrophically burst in the early 1990s, stockbroker Ryuta Otsuka remembers waving a 10,000-yen...

Washington (AFP) - The US Federal Reserve was divided in January over the risks of cutting interest rates too soon...

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Brazil criticized the "paralysis" of the UN Security Council on the wars in Gaza and...

Cape Town (AFP) - South Africa plans to hike taxes and increase spending on social grants ahead of a general...

Mitrovica (Kosovo) (AFP) - Long lines snaked around banks in northern Kosovo on Wednesday, as ethnic Serbs waited to receive...