
Inflation clouds ‘Black Friday’ kickoff of US holiday shopping season
US retailers unveiled a trove of fresh promotions Friday, as they try to coax sales from reticent shoppers whose holiday cheer has been tempered by inflation…
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US retailers unveiled a trove of fresh promotions Friday, as they try to coax sales from reticent shoppers whose holiday cheer has been tempered by inflation…
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Nurses across most of Britain will hold the first strikes in their union's 106-year history next month, joining a host of other workers taking industrial…
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Japan's core consumer prices rose 3.6 percent year-on-year in October, the government said Friday, the highest level in four decades due largely to rising…
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Philippine economic growth beat expectations in the third quarter despite soaring inflation, officials said Thursday, spurred by an increase in household…
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President Bongbong Marcos has directed concerned government agencies to continue supporting the most vulnerable sectors in the form of distribution of cash…
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The war raging in Ukraine and other overlapping crises are taking a toll on labor markets worldwide, the UN said Monday, suggesting a "sharp"…
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Britain's new prime minister, set to be former finance minister Rishi Sunak, inherits a UK economy that was headed for recession even before the recent turmoil…
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Countries must ensure that social benefits and wages rise with inflation, otherwise, people could starve or freeze in their homes, the United Nations' poverty…
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Soaring food and energy prices are raising the risk of social unrest but attempting to tame costs through tax cuts, subsidies, and price controls would be too…
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A weakened peso and rising commodities prices and electricity rates could drive the September inflation between 6.6 to 7.4 percent, the Bangko Sentral ng…
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President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. is closely monitoring the continued weakening of the Philippine peso against the US dollar, Malacañang said…
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The International Monetary Fund has projected the Philippines' gross domestic product to grow by 6.5 percent in 2022 but to slow to 5 percent in 2023 as the…
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The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index is still struggling to recover from a slump, especially after the Federal Reserve kept its aggressive stance in…
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Consumers and businesses around the world are facing steeper prices for everything from Mexico's beloved tortillas to the aluminium cans used by beer companies.
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Russia's war against Ukraine appears to be settling into a grinding conflict that could last years and prove increasingly risky for Kyiv's Western allies,…
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Sri Lanka added 37 new senior posts to its government on Thursday, sparking a social media backlash over "useless" public spending in the middle of…
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The country's inflation rate has slightly eased to 6.3 percent in August 2022 from 6.4 percent in the previous month, according to the latest report of the…
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The Philippine manufacturing sector posted a slight increase in August, although headwinds persist from runaway inflation and supply chain disruptions, S&P…
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