Page 90 - Analyses News Today

6 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - A multi-year boom in global house prices which even a pandemic has failed to halt is forcing central banks around the world to confront a knotty question - what, if anything, should they be doing about it? FILE PHOTO: A real estate sign that reads "For Sale" and "Sold Above Asking" stands in front of housing in Vaughan, a suburb in Toronto, Canada, May 24, 2017. REUTERS/Mark Blinch The surge in property values from Australia to Sweden is often viewed benignly by...

6 Min Read MILAN (Reuters) - When mayor Filippo Tripoli got a phone call from Telecom Italia last December to cable his town in Sicily he was taken by surprise. Bagheria, population 55,000, had already been cabled by rival Open Fiber and another network seemed extravagant. Open Fiber staff works in Bagheria, a town near Palermo, Italy April 8, 2021. Picture taken April 8, 2021. Open Fiber/Nicola Giambelluca/Handout via REUTERS “It knocked me sideways,” Tripoli said. “What’s the point of...

6 Min Read MILAN (Reuters) - When mayor Filippo Tripoli got a phone call from Telecom Italia last December to cable his town in Sicily he was taken by surprise. Bagheria, population 55,000, had already been cabled by rival Open Fiber and another network seemed extravagant. Open Fiber staff works in Bagheria, a town near Palermo, Italy April 8, 2021. Picture taken April 8, 2021. Open Fiber/Nicola Giambelluca/Handout via REUTERS “It knocked me sideways,” Tripoli said. “What’s the point of...

5 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - The promised digital euro started to take shape this week and signals from Frankfurt may offer some relief to nervy commercial banks worried about being sidelined by the latest disrupter. FILE PHOTO: A picture illustration of euro banknotes, April 25, 2014. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo With the “hands off” pandemic accelerating the demise of physical cash, and private-sector crypto and stablecoins threatening to invade the space, the pledge last year of a d...

(Refiles story to fix typo in a chart; no changes to text) FILE PHOTO: The European Central Bank (ECB) logo in Frankfurt, Germany, January 23, 2020. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski/File Photo LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) - Euro zone politicians, courts and policy hawks will pose a stiff challenge this year to the ECB’s resolve to pin down the bloc’s borrowing costs, precisely at a time when higher U.S. Treasury yields are tempting investors away from European markets. The European Central Bank has held so...

6 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - Just as long-dormant inflation finally rears its head again, there are some signs that financial markets may already have overestimated the impact - or at least the response. FILE PHOTO: A U.S. dollar note is seen in front of a stock graph in this November 7, 2016 picture illustration. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo One of the biggest fears of the year for global investors has been that a policy-supercharged, post-pandemic recovery of major economies se...

5 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - Just as long-dormant inflation finally rears its head again, there are some signs that financial markets may already have overestimated the impact - or at least the response. FILE PHOTO: A U.S. dollar note is seen in front of a stock graph in this November 7, 2016 picture illustration. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo One of the biggest fears of the year for global investors has been that a policy-supercharged, post-pandemic recovery of major economies se...

5 Min Read WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - While the blank-check deals market reached new heights this week with Grab Holdings’ record $40 billion merger, some lawyers and regulatory experts said the exuberance was unlikely to last as the U.S. securities watchdog steps up scrutiny of such deals. FILE PHOTO: The front facade of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is seen in New York, U.S., February 12, 2021. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo Southeast Asia’s largest ride-hailing and food de...

6 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) - Fund managers are trimming exposure to Russia and Ukraine on fears that years of tensions could finally erupt into outright war, bringing economic ruin for Ukraine and more sanctions on Russia. FILE PHOTO: A Shmel-class gunboat of the Russian Navys Caspian Flotilla sails along the Don River during the inter-fleet move from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea, in Rostov-on-Don, Russia April 13, 2021. REUTERS/Sergey Pivovarov But with largest build up of Russian troops ...

Governments around the world are subsidizing the construction of semiconductor factories as a chip shortage hobbles the auto and electronics industries and highlights the world's singular dependence on Taiwan for vital supplies.