Economy

US consumer prices increased 7% in December compared with a year ago – the sharpest 12-month spike since 1982. By Al Jazeera Staff Consumers in the United States could be forgiven.

Tokyo in November banned new entry by non-Japanese, including students and family members, in responses to Omicron. Japan will maintain its tight entry restrictions it put in place to prevent.

Hong Kong’s Omicron outbreak is dealing a double whammy to businesses. Not only will new social distancing curbs crimp revenue for retailers and restaurants, a slashing of flights they rely.

A new report argues that firms must change how they view workers to compete in the war for talent. The coronavirus pandemic has caused the biggest worker reshuffle in modern.

Indonesia suspended coal exports on January 1 amid shortages at domestic power plants. The Philippines’ energy secretary Alfonso Cusi has appealed to Indonesia to lift its coal export ban, saying.

Anti-corruption watchdog says Wang Bin is ‘suspected of serious violations of discipline and law’. Bloomberg China’s top anti-graft watchdog placed the chairman of China Life Insurance Co. Ltd., one of.

By Noreen Burke Investing.com — The coming week will bring closely followed inflation figures, while Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and Vice Chair Lael Brainard are to testify at their.

By Jeff Mason LOUISVILLE, Colo. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden, visiting the scene of Colorado’s most destructive wildfire on record, said on Friday the rare winter blaze marked the latest.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Rising energy prices may force the European Central Bank to stop “looking through” high inflation and act to temper price growth, particularly if the green transition proves inflationary,.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Joe Manchin’s $1.8 trillion spending offer he proposed to the White House in late 2021 appears to be no longer on the table following a.