The Bank of Canada today maintained its target for the overnight rate at 1 ¾ per cent. The Bank Rate is correspondingly 2 per cent and the deposit rate is 1 ½ per cent. The global economic expansion ...

December 23, 2018 More than 6 years ago Steven Mnuchin, U.S. Treasury secretary, spoke to the CEOs of six major banks about liquidity in an unusual move. The stock market reacted by dropping lower ...

Australians holding Swiss bank accounts are being monitored by the Tax Office for the first time, ... Posted Fri 14 Dec 2018 at 12:51am Friday 14 Dec 2018 at 12:51am Fri 14 Dec 2018 at 12:51am, ...

Today the US Congress is weighing draft legislation based on problematic logic that conflates a call for businesses to stop operating in West Bank settlements, which are unlawful under the 1949 ...

In a precautionary move, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin spent Sunday on the phone speaking with the chief executives of six of the country’s largest banks to avoid yet another market whiplash ...

The World Bank reports India lifted 171 million people out of extreme poverty between 2011-12 and 2022-23, reducing it to 2.3%. Using a $3.65/day poverty line, 378 million were lifted out of poverty.

MOSCOW, December 4, 2018 – Russia’s growth prospects remain modest, forecast at between 1.5% and 1.8% for the period 2018-20, says the World Bank’s latest Russia Economic Report (#40 in the series).

Funding for 2021-2025 includes a significant boost for adaptation and resilience. Washington DC - 3 December, 2018 --The World Bank Group today announced a major new set of climate targets for ...

Extreme poverty (living on less than $2.15 per day) fell from 16.2 per cent in 2011-12 to 2.3 per cent in 2022-23, lifting 171 million people above this line, the World Bank had said in its ...

Q4 2018 Bank of America Financial Results Press Release. ... from noon on January 16, through 11:59 p.m. ET on January 23. Bank of America Bank of America is one of the world’s leading ...

This Supplement provides additional guidance to IMF and World Bank staff on the implementation of the Bank-Fund Debt Sustainability Framework for Low Income Countries (LIC-DSF) approved in 2017 by the ...