Reuters

Spanish Finance Minister Nadia Calvino, elected in January to head the IMF's steering committee, hinted at a "tectonic shift" in the principles that have guided the global world order since the end of World War Two.

The extension was announced by US Health Secretary Xavier Becerra on Thursday. Last month, President Joe Biden said in an interview that "the pandemic is over," which prompted criticism from health experts.

China and Japan are exceptions, where the economic recovery has been weaker, slack remains substantial and inflation has not risen as sharply as elsewhere, said Krishna Srinivasan, director of the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department.

South Korea's National Security Council (NSC) condemned the North for escalating tensions, calling its moves a violation of a 2018 bilateral military pact that bans "hostile acts" in the border area.

As Xi Jinping prepares to extend his tenure as China's leader at next week's Communist Party Congress, he faces once-in-a-generation economic challenges and decisions that will significantly shape the lives of the country's 1.4 billion people.

While the filing said he was under investigations, it did not say what the exact focus of the probes was and which federal authorities are conducting them.

The temporary fall in the dollar was partly driven by the sharp recovery in Wall Street stocks, Commonwealth Bank of Australia strategist Carol Kong said.

Offshore, risk appetite is already softening, with U.S. S&P 500 futures sliding 0.1% while the Nasdaq futures falling 0.2%.

A 2019 report uncovered systemic harmful behaviour in New Zealand's parliament, including by and between staff, managers, members of parliament, the media and the public.

Together with Ethiopia and Zambia, Chad was one of three initial countries to seek a debt restructuring under a G20 initiative, but progress has been glacial.

Wall Street futures ticked higher on Thursday, ahead of a closely watched U.S. inflation report that could offer clues on how successful the Federal Reserve has been in its battle against decades-high inflation.

Six months ago, Jose Moreno found himself without a roof over his head.

The South American country is set to post its sharpest rise in prices this year since a period of hyperinflation around 1990.

Inter IKEA, franchiser for the world's biggest home furnishing brand, said sales at all IKEA stores and online grew 6.5% in the 12 months through August, or 3.5% measured in local currencies, to 44.6 billion euros ($43.3 billion).

The Green Party, which runs the ministry, has long advocated taking a harder line on China and Habeck said last month that Germany would adopt a tougher approach on trade.

The deaths of several teenaged girls reportedly killed while demonstrating have becoming a rally cry for more protests.

Delta said Hurricane Ian, which led to mass flight cancellation last month, hurt earnings by three cents a share.

AI can go awry in many ways. Most well known is that training data skewed along race or other lines can prompt unfairly biased predictions.

Getting supplies of everything flowing more freely again is key for the U.S. Federal Reserve, which hopes that will help pull down inflation.

Financial conditions have undergone a rapid tightening this year and have plenty of room to get even more restrictive, new Bank of America data says.

The government has said it will stick to most of its tax cut plans while also protecting public spending, but economists and critics say something has to give.

The Luxembourg-based CJEU said there should not be any direct discrimination in such a ban.

Protesters had mobilized outside the clerk's office, holding signs with the signature "Stop the Steal" slogan of former President Donald Trump and demanding the county get rid of its voting machines.

Total consumption in Europe fell in September by 4.3% against the 2015-2021 average for the same time of year, according to Reuters calculations using ENTSOE's data.

Japanese policymakers have so far remained coy about the likely size of the planned stimulus spending, although some lawmakers have floated ball-park figures around 30 trillion yen.

The warning from the agency highlights a rift with Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter and OPEC's de facto leader.

German defence company Diehl.Berlin this week delivered the first of four IRIS-T SLM systems to Ukraine but Germany's own Bundeswehr armed forces does itself not have the system in inventory.

RBI's inflation projections in the MPR are based on its economic model but the extreme weather conditions have made food price volatility hard to predict, said economists.

Euro zone borrowing costs edged lower on Thursday as investors paused for breath ahead of key U.S. economic data after driving government bond yields to fresh multi-year highs.