The dollar climbed to 130.99 yen in early trade, a fresh one-month high. It is not far from last month’s 20-year peak of 131.34 yen after gaining 2.95% last week. The euro has also climbed on the Japanese currency and hit a seven-year high. The Japanese yen was on the back foot on Monday, in … Read more
FRANKFURT: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and spiralling energy prices have upended the economic outlook and left European Central Bank policymakers with the task of navigating the eurozone through a fresh crisis at their meeting on Thursday. The bank had been poised to take another step towards the ‘normalisation’ of its monetary policy, by ending its … Read more
BRUSSELS: Eurozone inflation surged to its highest rate on record in November, fuelled by soaring energy prices, official data showed on Tuesday. Consumer prices picked up to 4.9 per cent from 4.1 per cent in the previous month, the highest reading since the official statistics agency Eurostat began compiling the data more than 20 years ago. … Read more
