Presidents can control monetary policy even without replacing the Fed chair, Benn Steil writes in a commentary essay.

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Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia on Thursday announced it would cease publishing its reports on Elon Musk's social media platform X, which it said had become a "disinformation network".

The dollar faces a downward correction but any pullback will be modest and brief, ING said. A correction is possible given stretched long-dollar positioning that bets on the currency rising, ING ...

Israel's warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, a special UN committee said Thursday, accusing the country of "using starvation as a method of war".

Typhoon Usagi slammed into the Philippines' already disaster-ravaged north on Thursday, as authorities rushed to evacuate ...

Britain's head of state King Charles III turns 76 on Thursday, still in the grip of cancer treatment but with his passion for ...

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq are slightly higher in premarket trading. Short-term Treasury yields are lower, while longer-term yields are up. Bitcoin is just off a record high.

When Bart Gruyaert agreed to help rebuild destroyed apartment blocks outside Kyiv, he hoped to be one cog in Ukraine's vast reconstruction programme, repairing just some of the damage wrought by ...

Azerbaijan's "doors are still open", the COP29 presidency's lead negotiator said Thursday after France's ecology minister cancelled her trip to the UN climate summit over "unacceptable" remarks by ...

Two days ahead of a referendum on a new constitution, Gabon's cities are adorned with signs urging citizens to vote "yes" while opponents of the junta-drafted law struggle to make themselves heard.

Visiting United Nations nuclear chief Rafael Grossi said in Tehran Thursday that achieving "results" in talks with Iran is vital to avoid a war.