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The USD Index (DXY) is currently trading in a tight range below the pivotal resistance level of 104.20, with the latest figures showing it near 103.70. This activity comes amidst a period of subdued post-holiday market movements and investor anticipation of potential Federal Reserve interest rate cuts by spring 2024. Market participants are closely watching for today’s release of Manufacturing and Services PMI data, which could influence the currency’s trajectory. The DXY is drawing support from its recent low at 103.17 and has additional support levels at 102.93, as well as the significant round number of 100.00. Despite recent bullish…
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Might Boots soon be on the move? The UK pharmaceutical retailer’s transfer of £4.8bn of pension obligations to insurer Legal & General brings its potential sale by owner Walgreens Boots Alliance one step closer.The hard-pressed US group was forced to take Boots off the block last year, with pensions complexity cited alongside choppy markets. One of these problems, at least, has been fixed.Boots, too, is doing rather better than it was, with retail sales in the 12 months to the end of…
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Home working in Brazil may be relieving wage pressure in an otherwise buoyant labor market, a study signed by top central bank officials and released by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) showed on Friday. Economic policy director Diogo Guillen and analyst Sergio Leao noted that wages were lagging pandemic levels despite a rebound in employment, with the real wages of college-educated workers seeing the most substantial decrease. This suggests that “working from home amenities may be playing a role in releasing wage pressure during the post-pandemic recovery,” they wrote. Brazil’s unemployment rate dipped to 7.7% in…
© Reuters. NASDAQ has granted Society Pass Inc. (SoPa), a Southeast Asian loyalty and e-commerce firm, an extension until May 20, 2024, to meet the exchange’s minimum $1 bid price requirement. This extension provides the company with additional time to align its strategies with NASDAQ’s standards. SoPa, which was founded in 2018 and went public in November 2021, operates across Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. The company focuses on five business verticals: loyalty schemes, digital media outlets, travel services providers, telecom operations solutions providers, and lifestyle e-commerce platforms. Through its Society Pass fintech platform and Society Points loyalty program,…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: German Finance Minister Christian Lindner attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany November 22, 2023. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo By Holger Hansen and Christian Kraemer BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Olaf Scholz promised on Friday to finalise the 2024 budget by the end of this year, in a video message that sought to reassure spooked citizens and investors in Europe’s largest economy after a court ruling tore up its spending plans. Scholz’s government was forced to freeze most of its new spending commitments after the constitutional court last week declared unconstitutional its plans to…
krblokhin Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) is slated to host its annual re:Invent conference next week and the tech giant’s cloud computing unit is likely to “shine” thanks to a deluge of generative artificial intelligence announcements, investment firm Monness, Crespi, Hardt said. Analyst Brian White, who has a buy rating on Amazon (AMZN) shares, said there will be a number of key Amazon executives hosting keynotes this year, including Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky. At last year’s re:Invent conference, OpenAI showed off ChatGPT to the world, and while White isn’t expecting as transformational, there is likely to be a number of important…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: City skyline and harbour are seen at sunrise from a quarantine bus window during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan July 24, 2021. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov/File Photo TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan passed on Friday an extra budget worth around 13.1 trillion yen ($88 billion) aimed at helping households cope with the rising cost of living and corporations boost domestic investment, even amid concerns over the country’s worsening finances. The government plans to issue about 8.9 trillion yen in new bonds in the extra budget to fund an economic package featuring temporary cuts to income tax,…
The surge of migrants entering the United States across the southern border increasingly includes people from a surprising place: China.Despite the distances involved and the difficulties of the journey, more than 24,000 Chinese citizens have been apprehended crossing into the United States from Mexico in the past year. That is more than in the preceding 10 years combined, according to government data.They typically fly into Ecuador, where they do not need a visa. Then, like hundreds of thousands of other migrants from Central and South America and more distant locations, they pay smugglers to guide their travel through the dangerous…
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 16: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman looks on during the APEC CEO Summit … [+] at Moscone West on November 16, 2023 in San Francisco, California. The APEC summit is being held in San Francisco and runs through November 17. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)Getty Images A lot happened to artificial intelligence pioneer wizard Sam Altman, recently. But for me mostly it demonstrated how his bosses knew little about leadership. First let’s recap the basics of what happened over the past few days. First, Altman was a cofounder of OpenAI, a leading company in the development…