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 ...
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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 ...
Russian stock market suspends dollar trades after US sanctions
Moscow (AFP) - Russia's main stock exchange halted dollar and euro trades on Thursday after the United States hit Moscow ...
US Fed likely to remain on pause and pare back rate cut expectations
Washington (AFP) - The US Federal Reserve is likely to keep interest rates unchanged this week, but could pare back ...
Mexico’s president-elect moves to reassure nervous investors
Mexico City (AFP) - Mexican president-elect Claudia Sheinbaum's team reassured investors Tuesday that she would ensure the stability of Latin ...
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