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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct. 14 -- The ringgit opened higher against the US dollar on the first trading day of Budget 2025 week, buoyed by optimism that the government will likely [...]

The annual inflation rate in Brazil rose to 3.93% in May of 2024, picking up from the 3.69% jump in the prior month, and above market expectations of 3.89% to [...]

SEOUL, March 5, 2024 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- South Korea's revised real gross domestic product (GDP), adjusted for inflation, was up 1.4 percent in 2023 compared to the previous year, [...]

Prague, June 21 (CTK) - The effect of fiscal policy is creating upside risks to inflation going forward, Czech National Bank (CNB) governor Ales Michl said at a press conference [...]

Byline: Simon Johnson SNP ministers could raise income tax rates in Scotland again to plug a growing black hole in their spending plans, a respected think tank has warned. The [...]

U.S. equities dropped on Friday, May 19, 2023 as debt ceiling talks were put on pause. Shares of Foot Locker plummeted as the shoe retailer reported profit and sales that [...]

The dollar edged up against major currencies on Tuesday as traders awaited U.S. debt ceiling talks and new inflation data. China's imports contracted sharply in April, while exports grew more [...]

VANCOUVER: Fraser Institute has issued the following press release: With current fiscal policies, and prior to the 2023 budget being presented, the federal government faces between a 30 per cent [...]

Byline: DANIEL URIA U.S. stocks closed in the green on Wednesday, reversing earlier gains amid optimism Congress will reach a debt limit extension deal. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained [...]

SEOUL, July 27, 2021 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- South Korea's real gross domestic product (GDP), adjusted for inflation, grew 0.7 percent in the second quarter from the previous quarter, central [...]

In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Treasury has borrowed significant sums of money to fund worker and business support schemes and to keep public services funded as tax revenues [...]

BEIJING, June 18, 2020 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- China stepped up the implementation of a proactive fiscal policy to foster sustained social and economic growth last year, said a report [...]

Mumbai: Ramesh Kumar Global financial broking firm has issued the following news release: Amid concerns over fiscal deficit slippages, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that the Indian government [...]

Byline: Nicholas Cecil Deputy Political Editor BRITAIN faces more years of austerity despite Philip Hammond seeing the budget deficit falling more quickly than expected, economists warned today. Paul Johnson, director [...]

Byline: Muhammad Arshad Islamabad -- Pakistan has made tremendous economic growth as the size of the economy grew from USD 225 billion in 2013 to USD 304 billion in 2017. [...]

Byline: SHANNON PRATHER; STAFF WRITER Minnesotans apparently were feeling lucky in fiscal year 2016, spending $1.5 billion on pulltabs, bingo, raffles and other forms of charitable gambling ù or more [...]

MANILA, August 1, 2018 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The Philippine fiscal spending on infrastructure soared by 41.6 percent year on year in the first half of this year on the [...]

Byline: JOE MALINCONICO, PATERSON PRESS PATERSON -- The city government is on track to achieve a substantial reduction in its overtime spending this year, with a large portion of the [...]

Byline: Christopher Hope Chief Political Correspondent Rising population levels fuelled by large numbers of immigrants has helped to contribute to a near-50 per cent cut in council services in parts [...]

Byline: THE WASHINGTON TIMES President Obama sent a request last week to raise the debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion. That would push the limit on federal borrowing to an eye-popping [...]

Byline: DIRK MEISSNER; The Canadian Press ECONOMY VICTORIA -- British Columbia's finance minister is backing away from a firm government pledge to balance the budget in time for the next [...]

Byline: Rep. Paul Broun, M.D., SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES As a wise person, would you invest in a business if its expenses always exceed its revenue? Don't you think [...]

Byline: JANE TABER; SENIOR POLITICAL WRITER OTTAWA -- Senior officials are plotting a long-term strategy that will see Paul Martin's government focus on a narrow agenda over the next year, [...]

NEW YORK, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- U.S. markets snapped out of a slump Thursday as lawmakers in Washington sounded hopeful the government could limp past the mid-October debt ceiling deadline. [...]

Byline: Z. Byron Wolf, CNN WASHINGTON (CNN) -- With a lot of facts and figures thrown around the government shutdown and the looming debt ceiling deadline, here are the ones [...]

BEIJING, Dec 25, 2011 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- China's central government is stepping up fiscal spending on the development of agriculture and rural regions as well as on the improvement [...]

GUATEMALA, Nov 07, 2011 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Guatemala's President-elect Otto Perez Molina said Monday that he will immediately begin talks with the private sector to boost a set of [...]

Jun. 13--Back in April, House Minority Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia wrote a commentary trying to make the case that Republicans, despite their past record of profligacy, really were the [...]

Byline: Jeremy Warner Tim Congdon, keeper of the monetarist faith, is always good value and was on characteristically controversial form for a lunch at the centre right think tank Reform [...]

Jan. 24--Let's get this straight, first of all. When Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says the governor's proposed budget cuts 'go too far [and] make life more difficult' for New Yorkers, [...]

Dec. 14--Belly up to the bar Spending on pork continues under Democrats Just one year ago, surfing on the wave of moral indignation they rode to majority status in Congress, [...]