By Howard Schneider
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Through a tumultuous period of high inflation, aggressive interest rate hikes, and global instability, the U.S. Federal Reserve received relatively high marks for its monetary policy communications despite the thicket of uncertainty it has been navigating, according to a survey of academic and private-sector analysts released on Thursday.
Responses from 31 academic and 24 private Fed watchers to... (continue reading...)
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's new yuan loans likely dropped sharply in April from March due mainly to seasonal factors, a Reuters poll showed, even as the central bank keeps policy support for the economy.
Chinese banks are expected to have issued 800 billion yuan ($110.7 billion) in net new yuan loans last month, compared with 3.09 trillion yuan in March, according to the median estimate in the survey of 21 economists.
But the expected... (continue reading...)
By Virginia Furness
LONDON (Reuters) - Staff at an influential corporate climate action group whose board announced a plan to allow companies to offset greenhouse gas emissions from their supply chain with carbon credits has now found such offsets are largely ineffective, a confidential preliminary draft reviewed by Reuters shows.
At stake is the growth of the still nascent market for voluntary carbon offsets. While they are used by some... (continue reading...)
TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian authorities have arrested six people for assaulting police officers and causing damage at protests in recent weeks against a bill on "foreign agents", the interior ministry said on Thursday.
The bill, which would require organisations receiving more than 20% of their funding from abroad to register as agents of foreign influence, has sparked huge protests in the South Caucasus country by demonstrators who see it as... (continue reading...)
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka presidential elections will be held between Sept. 17 and Oct. 16, the island nation's Election Commission said on Thursday.
(Reporting by Uditha Jayasinghe, writing by Tanvi Mehta; Editing by Tomasz Janowski)
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