Markets

The dollar touched a seven-month low on Wednesday, reversing a trend that dominated much of 2022 as lower expectations of sharp Federal Reserve rate rises eased pressure on global markets.The fall in the US currency, one of the steepest since the aftermath of the global…

US authorities have charged a Russian national with transmitting more than $700mn in illicit cryptocurrency funds that fell foul of US money laundering regulations, the latest move by legal authorities to crack down on crypto being used as a vehicle for alleged bad actors.The Department…

If Haruhiko Kuroda hoped to engineer a smooth handover to his successor as governor of the Bank of Japan then he has blown it already. Kuroda’s decision in December to relax, but not abandon, his policy of capping the yield on Japanese 10-year bonds at…

Harbour Energy, one of the UK’s biggest oil and gas producers, has told staff it plans to cut jobs this year in response to an increase in windfall taxes on fossil fuel companies.The company is starting a consultation as it reassesses its activities in the…

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