economic policy
Japan: BOJ hikes interest rates for the first time in 17 years
Business
Jessica Roberts
TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate Tuesday for the first time in 17 years, ending a longstanding ...
Time running out for rate cuts, Jim Bianco warns before Fed meeting
Business
Jessica Roberts
“I’m in the camp that the Fed does not change policy in the summer of an election year,” the Bianco Research president ...
Mexico overtakes China as the leading source of goods imported to US
U.S.
Amanda Smith
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time in more than two decades, Mexico last year surpassed China as the leading source of ...
A fragile global economy is at stake as US and China seek to cool tensions at APEC summit
U.S.
Amanda Smith
WASHINGTON — The United States and China are the two global economic heavyweights. Combined, they produce more than 40% of the world’s ...
