Yen touches 38-year low, stocks slide
London (AFP) - The yen, weakened by the Japanese government's easy monetary policy, hit a 38-year low against the dollar ...
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Argentina’s growth plummets 5.1% in first quarter
Buenos Aires (AFP) - Argentina's austerity-hit economy contracted by 5. 1 percent in the first quarter, the national statistics agency ...
Argentina has surplus harvest, but farmers want more from Milei
Lobos (AFP) - In the pampas, Argentina's vast and fertile grasslands outside Buenos Aires, grain silos overflow with this year's ...
Spain to eliminate tax on olive oil to ease price jump
Madrid (AFP) - Spain's leftist government said Friday it will remove the value-added tax on olive oil, a staple of ...
Argentina has surplus harvest, but farmers want more from Milei
Lobos (AFP) - In the pampas, Argentina's vast and fertile grasslands outside Buenos Aires, grain silos overflow with this year's ...
Argentines pawn family jewels to make ends meet
Buenos Aires (AFP) - In Argentina's strangled economy, one sector is thriving: the pawn shops buying up gold and other ...
China waits anxiously for economic plan as gloom reigns
Tianjin (China) (AFP) - Rows and rows of partially inhabited high-rises sprawl into the suburbs of the northern Chinese metropolis ...
Argentine monthly inflation lowest in 2.5 years
Buenos Aires (AFP) - Monthly inflation in economically troubled Argentina came in at 4. 2 percent in May, the lowest ...
Kenya eyes budget deficit with new tax hikes
Nairobi (AFP) - Kenya's finance minister on Thursday presented the East African nation's biggest ever budget, alongside contentious tax proposals ...
Russians shrug off sanctions on dollar, euro trading
Moscow (AFP) - Russians on the streets of the capital shrugged off new US sanctions on dollar and euro trading ...
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