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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar strengthened on Friday after data showed an increase in jobs in the world’s largest economy last month, suggesting the Federal Reserve may have to raise interest rates next month. The dollar index rose by 0.3% to 102.16 after the U.S. non-farm payrolls data. Against the yen, the dollar was up 0.4% at 132.21 yen while the euro was 0.2% weaker at $1.0894. (Reporting by […]

By Fabian Hamacher TAOYUAN, Taiwan (Reuters) -Taiwan will not be stopped from engaging with the world and will not give in to pressure, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Friday as she arrived back from a trip to Central America and United States, where she met U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. China, which claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, reacted with anger to the McCarthy meeting having demanded it […]

By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) – Paris St Germain’s Ligue 1 situation is “not acceptable”, coach Christophe Galtier said on Friday after their lead at the top of the table shrunk to six points ahead of two key encounters. PSG were 10 points ahead in late February but they have now lost their last two games in their worst start to a calendar year in 22 years. On Saturday, they […]

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. economy continued to churn out jobs at a brisk pace in March, pushing the unemployment rate down to 3.5%, signs of persistent labor market tightness that could see the Federal Reserve hiking interest rates again next month. Nonfarm payrolls increased by 236,000 jobs last month, the Labor Department said in its closely watched employment report on Friday. Data for February was revised […]

(Reuters) -JPMorgan Chase & Co is being scrutinized by U.S. regulators for the due diligence the bank conducted on a number of its past acquisitions, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) in the U.S. scheduled a specific audit of JPMorgan’s deal making after the bank bought dozens of smaller companies in 2021 and 2022, the […]

By Ari Rabinovitch and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) -Two Israeli women were killed in a shooting in the occupied West Bank on Friday and Israel reinforced troops near its borders after cross-frontier violence and police raids at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque raised concerns of a broadening conflict. But despite militants firing salvoes of rockets from Lebanon and Gaza over the past day and the Israeli military replying with air strikes, no […]

By Cheney Orr and Brad Brooks NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) -Republicans in control of the Tennessee House of Representatives expelled two Democratic representatives on Thursday for breaking decorum during a gun control demonstration at the statehouse last week in the wake of the latest school shooting. In an extraordinary measure, when lesser forms of discipline including censure were available, the Republican supermajority voted to remove Representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, […]

KYIV (Reuters) – A leak of classified documents detailing secret U.S. and NATO plans to help Kyiv looks like a Russian disinformation operation to sow doubts about Ukraine’s planned counter-offensive, a Ukrainian presidential official said on Friday. Mykhailo Podolyak told Reuters that the leaked data reported by the New York Times contained a “very large amount of fictitious information” and that Russia was trying to seize back the initiative in […]

By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE (Reuters) – Central bankers across central Europe have doubled down on their hawkish policy messages in the past two weeks in a bid to persuade investors to ditch bets that they will soon begin an easing cycle, and their message is starting to gain traction. Their policy warnings come despite a European market downturn in the wake of Credit Suisse’ demise, which raised bets that global […]