Shafaq News/ On Sunday, the exchange rates оf the US dollar against the Iraqi dinar climbed іn Baghdad and Erbil markets. According tо Shafaq News Agency correspondent, the dollar’s rates edged higher with the closure оf the central Kifah and Al-Harithiya stock exchanges іn Baghdad, settling at 148,700 dinars for every 100 dollars—300 dinars above […]
The booming economy is exacerbating a key vulnerability for President Biden heading into the height of campaign season, as inflation and interest rates could remain higher until deep into the final weeks of the presidential election. Fresh data this week shows inflation picked up again in March, in the latest sign that the economy is […]
(Bloomberg) — If the global economy is heading for a soft landing, there’s likely to be plenty of anxiety along the way. As the world’s financial elite gather in Washington for meetings of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and Group of 20, they’ll confront a mixture of slowing growth, stubborn inflation, high interest rates […]
President Biden has a story he wants to tell voters about the economy, one of consistent job growth over the course of his presidency and of a pandemic recovery that has led the world. Inflation keeps getting in the way. Last week’s inflation report showed consumer prices rising 3.5 percent from March 2023 to March […]
Investing in nursing makes “economic sense”, the president of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) has urged. Dr Pamela Cipriano made the comment ahead of the International Nurses Day 2024, which will take place on 12 May and carries the theme of “the economic power of care”. Each year the ICN releases a report to […]
Four days after appreciating to its strongest level against the US dollar in almost nine years, the Mexican peso declined sharply on Friday morning before making up some of the ground it lost. Bloomberg data shows that the peso’s exchange rate weakened to as low as 16.74 on Friday morning before slightly recovering to trade […]
MIAMI (AP) — Having fled economic and political chaos in Venezuela, Luisana Silva now loads carpets for a South Carolina rug company. She earns enough to pay rent, buy groceries, gas up her car — and send money home to her parents. Reaching the United States was a harrowing ordeal. Silva, 25, her husband and […]
Australia is a trading nation. Its economy relies on a strong and open global trade environment. Australian governments have historically rejected protectionist industrial policies that undermine fair competition, and Canberra has long been a staunch advocate of the World Trade Organization, whose rules help “promote and protect the open global trading system”. Yet Labor has […]
It’s the second week of April, which means spring is in the air and daffodils, cherry trees and lilacs are blooming. Here at Marketplace, it also means earnings season is starting. Corporate profit-and-loss reports for the January-to-March quarter kicked off in earnest Wednesday with Delta Air Lines, which did quite well. Revenue rose 6% and […]
State GDP from Bureau of Economic Analysis (Map by Flourish) Could California lose its bragging rights as the world’s fifth-largest economy? My trusty spreadsheet found that the Golden State could fall one notch in 2024 to fast-growing India in this theoretical ranking of economic heft, as measured by Gross Domestic Product – a broad measure […]
