CANBERRA, Australia — Australia’s central bank on Tuesday lifted its benchmark interest rate for a third time in consecutive months,…
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WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell threatened Thursday to derail a bill designed to boost semiconductor manufacturing in the…
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PARIS — The new speaker of France’s lower house of parliament — the first woman to hold the post —…
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WASHINGTON — Russia appears to have defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time since the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution,…
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NEW YORK — Stocks are drifting mostly lower in early trading on Wall Street Monday as the market cools off…
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NEW YORK — Wall Street is poised to open higher at Thursday’s opening bell a day after the head of…
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WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday underscored the Fed’s determination to raise interest rates high enough to…
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BEIJING — A United Nations summit on biodiversity will be held in Canada instead of China, organizers announced Tuesday, the…
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TOKYO — Asian markets were mostly lower in cautious trading Monday ahead of a federal holiday in the U.S. Worries…
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LONDON — Russian hostilities in Ukraine are preventing grain from leaving the “breadbasket of the world” and making food more…
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