Gold hits over 1-month peak on Fed rate-cut hopesExpectations for more Fed rate cuts this year increased following the CPI data, and odds for an at least 25 basis point cut at the June Fed...
Gold rises for fifth day as US data lifts Fed rate-cut betsGold prices edged higher for a fifth consecutive session, nearing a two-week high, boosted by expectations of a Fed rate cut next week. U.S...
Gaza health ministry says 70 killed after Israel evacuation orderAn Israeli operation in Khan Yunis, Gaza, killed 70 people and wounded over 200, according to Gaza's health ministry. The strike followed I...
Oil prices near flat as demand worries offset Middle East riskThe New York Fed said its January Survey of Consumer Expectations showed the outlook for inflation a year and five years from now were unch...
Israel and Hamas agree to extend truce for two more days, and to free more hostages and prisonersIsrael and Hamas agreed to extend their cease-fire for an additional two days past Monday. This extension raises the possibility of further...
Hamas eyes Gaza truce extension for more hostage releasesIsrael's allies have been wary of calling for a complete end to military operations designed to eliminate Hamas, but foreign ministers from...
Hamas releases 12 more hostages, Israel frees 30 Palestinian prisoners on fifth day of temporary cease-fireIn the latest swap since the cease-fire began Friday, Israel said 10 of its citizens and two Thai nationals were freed by Hamas and had bee...
Peace prevails in Gaza, for nowHamas and other militants are still holding about 160 people, out of the 240 seized in their October 7 assault into southern Israel that ig...
Gold hits 6-month peak on dollar dip, bets of Fed's rate-hike pauseThe dollar index touched a near three-month low, against its rivals, making gold less expensive for other currency holders.
Israel and Hamas look to extend cease-fire on its final day, with one more hostage swap plannedInternational mediators are actively engaged in efforts to extend a cease-fire in Gaza, which has temporarily halted the deadliest Israeli-...
Irregular meals, benches as beds. As freed hostages return to Israel, details of captivity emergeThe 58 hostages freed under a cease-fire deal over the past three days have largely stayed out of the public eye, with most still in hospit...
Gold edges lower as dollar firms, Fed speakers in focusFed Governor Lisa Cook said on Monday she hopes the central bank's current target interest rate is adequate to return inflation to the Fed'...
Excessive central bank support may create zombie markets disconnected from fundamentals: Mohamed El-Erian‘Market is overlooking near-term challenges’
India's stocks held hostage to Fed cycle, says S NarenKey Indian equity indexes are up less than 10 percent this year.
US economy liftoff slow to come, has Federal Reserve in a bindThe central bank has become hostage to inadequate policy responses around the world, but also to an excessively partial US approach.
- Attack, counter-attack over Kandahar hijacking episode
BJP said PM himself had endorsed govt's action to free the hostages.
- Colombia rebels could free mother, child hostages
Former Colombian vice presidential candidate Clara Rojas could be freed along with her young son as early as Thursday, almost six years aft...