Portugal jobless rate slips to 6.5% in March
(Reuters) - Portugal's monthly unemployment rate slipped to 6.5% in March from a revised reading of 6.6% in February, the Nat...
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Japan's May 1 intervention may have cost $23.6 billion, BOJ data shows
By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese officials may have spent some 3.66 trillion yen ($23.59 billion) on Wednesday in ...
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Hong Kong Q1 GDP expands 2.7% on year, tight financial conditions seen
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's economic grew 2.7% in the first quarter on the year, official advance estimates showed on T...
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Ex-BOJ official predicts Japan will keep intervening to prevent yen free-fall
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will likely keep intervening to prop up the yen until the risk of speculators trigger...
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S.Korea pension fund targets ratio of risky assets at 65% in new portfolio
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's National Pension Service (NPS), manager of the world's third-largest public pension fund, wil...
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Bearish bets on most Asian FX climb to multi-month highs: Reuters poll
By Himanshi Akhand (Reuters) - Short bets on most Asian currencies firmed to touch multi-month highs as growing expectations ...
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Euro zone factory activity took turn for the worse in April, PMI shows
LONDON (Reuters) - The ongoing downturn in euro zone manufacturing activity deepened in April due to crumbling demand despite...
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Latin America's seven largest economies to grow 1.4% this year, OECD forecasts
By Marion Giraldo MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Latin America's highest-income countries, with the exception of Argentina, will gro...
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Thailand to increase daily minimum wage to 400 baht in Oct
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's government plans to increase the daily minimum wage to 400 baht ($10.84) from October, a spoke...
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OECD upgrades global growth outlook as U.S. outperforms
By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) - The global economy is growing faster than expected only a few months ago thanks to resilien...
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