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The World Bank Group said on Monday it had started operating a new one-stop-shop loan and investment guarantee platform which it hopes will triple the provision of
July 01, 2024
The Bank for International Settlements warned on Sunday that rising government debt levels amid a number of major elections this year could roil global financial
June 30, 2024
A new report has called for a radical global effort this year to help vulnerable countries fend off financial meltdown and climate change, including widespread debt
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June 25, 2024
A Ukrainian center that provides free bionic and prosthetic limbs to soldiers maimed by Russian shells has expanded its main hospital and intends to open others in the
June 20, 2024
Talks between Ukraine and its international bondholders designed to cut its debt to help finance its war effort ground to a halt on Monday after the two sides failed to
June 17, 2024
A total of 134 countries representing 98% of the global economy are now exploring digital versions of their currencies, with over half in advanced development, pilot
March 14, 2024
Analysts at investment bank Citi have predicted a 5% jump in the dollar and a selloff in bond markets if a Donald Trump-led Republican Party clean sweeps the U.S.
February 15, 2024
World stock markets tapped the brakes on Thursday as traders digested the latest U.S. inflation data and amid widespread excitement in the crypto world after the
January 11, 2024
The head of the International Monetary Fund has urged countries to make a more proactive push to develop central bank digital currencies (CBDC).
November 15, 2023
The bulls remained in charge on Thursday as bets that major central banks are now done with rate hikes and the recent slide in oil prices kept global borrowing costs
November 09, 2023
Central banks are on the brink of victory in the fight to bring the global surge in inflation back under control, the Bank for International Settlements said on Monday
March 04, 2024
Gains in Europe and data from China helped equity markets shake off their New Year blues on Thursday as the latest signals from the U.S.
January 04, 2024
This year might go down as one of the most unusual ever in financial markets - mainly because everything seems to have come good despite a lot of turbulence and many
December 21, 2023
Share markets had an end of year wobble on Thursday, while bonds completed a remarkable round trip for the year on the consensus view that large parts of the world
December 21, 2023
The U.S. and China on downgrade warnings, Turkey hoping for its first upgrade in a decade and Israel facing its first cut - plus more than 50 elections to navigate -
December 20, 2023
A consortium of top multilateral development banks (MDB) and climate funds launched a global "task force" on Monday to scale up the number and size of 'debt-for-nature
December 04, 2023
The world's top multilateral development banks are set to launch a global "task force" at the COP28 climate summit in the coming days to scale-up the number and size
November 30, 2023
Scope, Europe's first ECB-approved credit ratings agency, promises to put more weight on the euro zone's improved ability to navigate crises although it has concerns
November 27, 2023
World equity markets added to their best month since the COVID vaccine breakthroughs of late 2020 on Thursday as Europe digested another far-right election shock and
November 23, 2023
World stocks fell for the first time in five sessions, oil slipped and the dollar saw a slight lift on Thursday, as markets continued to assess the prospect of falling
November 16, 2023
Red October rumbled on in world markets on Friday as the sight of U.S. government bond yields hitting 5% for the first time since 2007 amid an increasingly threatening
October 20, 2023
The equation for financial markets over the last few months has been simple and painful: A near 30% surge in oil prices + a steep rise in borrowing costs = a
September 29, 2023
A clobbering for South Africa's, Mexico's and even India's heavyweight markets in recent days has proved without doubt that politics can still deliver an unexpected
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