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Wall Street pointed toward losses ahead of more corporate earnings reports as worries about war in the Middle East hang over markets.

Wall Street pointed toward losses ahead of more corporate earnings reports as worries about war in the Middle East hang over markets. Futures for the S&P 500 and Dow industrials

Markets appeared to have recovered, for the moment, even as Israel was preparing for a likely ground offensive into Gaza and fears deepened that the conflict could spread along Israel's border with Lebanon.

‘Raising interest rates will hurt the economy, will hurt consumers, will hurt producers. And that has also long-term effects,' says NEDA Secretary Arsenio Balisacan

MANILA (Reuters) -Consumer prices in the Philippines rose for a second month in September, increasing the pressure on the central bank to resume raising interest rates. A double-digit gain in the price of rice drove annual inflation to accelerate by 6.1% last month, its fastest pace in four months, according to data from the Philippine Statistics Authority released on Thursday. The country's economic planning agency on Thursday said it would recommend extending the lowered tariff rates on...

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Food inflation, currency slump add risks to policy horizon

MOST Asian currencies fell on Tuesday, with the Thai baht and the South Korean won leading the laggards, as sluggish data from China led to renewed worries about its unstable growth.