US singer Madonna embraces her adopted son, David Banda ahead of the opening of the Mercy James hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, July 11,2017. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko Madonna was hailed as a “symbol of a motherly spirit” by Malawi President Peter Mutharika after t... More »
FILE PHOTO – A crane flies an American flag over a construction site in downtown Los Angeles, California October 29, 2014. The U.S. economy is expanding at a 2.6 percent annualized pace in the second quarter based on the latest data on domestic payrolls and wh... More »
FILE PHOTO: A containership at a loading terminal is seen in the port of Hamburg, Germany, February 2, 2017. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File Photo German exports rose more strongly than expected in May, outpacing a solid increase in imports and widening the trade s... More »
By Andrew M. Seaman(Reuters Health) – People who want access to the best cancer treatment centers in the U.S. may want to avoid health insurance pla More »
A crane flies an American flag over a construction site in downtown Los Angeles, California October 29, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Blake The U.S. economy is expanding at 2.7 percent annualized pace in the second quarter based on the latest data on vehicle sales, facto... More »
A basket vendor walks past red lanterns serving as decorations to celebrate the new year outside a shopping mall in Kunming, Yunnan province January 6, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer China’s services sector grew at a slower pace in June as new orders slumped, signalin... More »
FILE PHOTO: Finished cars are stored at the SEAT factory in Martorell, near Barcelona, Spain March 24, 2017. REUTERS/Albert Gea/File Photo Factories across the euro zone rounded off the first half of 2017 by ramping up activity at the fastest rate for over six... More »
A man looks at a mobile phone in front of the Bank of Japan building in Tokyo, Japan June 16, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Japanese big manufacturers’ confidence is expected to have improved for a third straight quarter in June to match the peak seen two years ago... More »
FILE PHOTO: A woman is pictured at work at the Ford Fiesta assembly line in Cologne, Germany, January 6, 2016. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo Germany’s private-sector grew at a slower pace in June, a survey showed on Friday, mainly weighed down by weaker a... More »
A municipal worker sweeps the street outside the cabinet office in Westminster, central London, Britain, June 9, 2017. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne British workers’ earnings after inflation contracted at the fastest pace since 2014 in the three months to April, un... More »
FILE PHOTO: Workers chat outside a construction site in Beijing’s central business district, December 29, 2014. REUTERS/Jason Lee/File Photo China’s economy generally remained on solid footing in May, but tighter monetary policy, a cooling housing market and s... More »
Customers peruse goods at Makola market in Accra, Ghana, June 15, 2015. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko/File Photo Ghana’s annual consumer price inflation fell to 12.6 percent in May from 13.0 percent the previous month, the statistics office said on Wednesday. More »
FILE PHOTO: A worker controls a tapping of a blast furnace at Europe’s largest steel factory of Germany’s industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp AG in the western German city of Duisburg December 6, 2012. REUTERS/Ina Fassbender/File Photo Euro zone industrial ou... More »
People work at a construction site in Tokyo, September 9, 2015. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Japan’s core machinery orders fell more than expected in April, casting doubt on the strength of companies’ capital spending and adding to concerns about the country’s fragile e... More »
FILE PHOTO: Shoppers are reflected in a shop window as they walk along Oxford Street in London, Britain, December 21, 2013. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/File Photo British consumers cut their spending for the first time in nearly four years last month, figures from ... More »
FILE PHOTO: A woman walks past containers at a port in Shanghai January 13, 2009. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo China reported stronger-than-anticipated exports and imports for May despite falling commodity prices, suggesting the economy is holding up better tha... More »
China’s iron ore imports rose 5.5 percent in May from a year earlier, recovering from a six-month low in April, as mills in the top steelmaking nation scooped up more raw material as they posted strong profits. More »
FILE PHOTO: People walk in Omotesando shopping district in Tokyo, Japan May 17, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo Japan’s economic growth was much weaker in the first quarter than initially estimated, the Cabinet Office said, but analysts made light of the d... More »
REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon Japan’s real wages were flat in April from the same period a year earlier, with rising prices offsetting gains in nominal pay and possibly hurting households’ purchasing power. More »
A Saudi money exchanger counts Saudi riyals in Riyadh August 4, 2008. REUTERS/Fahad Shadeed The Saudi Arabian central bank’s foreign assets fell in April as the government borrowed heavily abroad, according to official data that suggested Riyadh was bringing m... More »
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers his speech during the welcoming banquet for the Belt and Road Forum at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China May 14, 2017. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj Lin Wong More »
Two people walk towards the entrance of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand located in the New Zealand capital city of Wellington, March 22, 2016. REUTERS/Rebecca Howard/File Photo New Zealand’s central bank on Monday said that a world of “radical uncertainty” has... More »
Ships are seen moored off of Tanjung Priok port in North Jakarta, Indonesia December 15, 2015. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside Indonesia’s exports and imports grew more slowly than expected in April, while the country’s trade balance was smaller than a month before, ... More »
Indonesia’s statistics bureau on Monday revised up its figures for March’s exports and trade surplus, but revised down its imports calculation for the month. More »
Two people walk towards the entrance of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand located in the New Zealand capital city of Wellington, March 22, 2016. REUTERS/Rebecca Howard/File Photo The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) defied market expectations it would adopt a ... More »
FILE PHOTO: A cashier displays the new 2000 Indian rupee banknotes inside a bank in Jammu, November 15, 2016. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta/File photo India’s inflation likely cooled in April due to lower food prices, but the pullback may not give the Reserve Bank of I... More »
FILE PHOTO: A worker packs pipelines onto a truck at a local plastic pipe factory in Donghegang village on the outskirts of Xiongxian county, one part of the new special economic zone Xiong’an New Area, Hebei province, China, April 6, 2017. REUTERS/Jason Lee/F... More »
FILE PHOTO: A man looks at campaign posters of the 11th candidates who run in the 2017 French presidential election in Saint Andre de La Roche, near Nice, France, April 10, 2017. L-R : Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, Debout La France group candidate, Marine Le Pen, Fre... More »
FILE PHOTO: A steel-worker is pictured at a furnace at the plant of German steel company Salzgitter AG in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony on March 17, 2015. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer/File Photo The German economy, Europe’s largest, picked up speed at the beginning of thi... More »
FILE PHOTO – A worker verifies a product at a steel factory in Dalian, Liaoning province, China September 1, 2016. China Daily/via REUTERS China’s producer price inflation cooled for the first time in seven months in March as iron ore and coal prices tumbled, ... More »
FILE PHOTO: Gary Cohn walks through the lobby at Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 13, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly White House economic adviser Gary Cohn said in a private meeting with lawmakers that he supports a policy that could revamp ... More »
Workers work at a construction site in front of Shanghai’s financial district of Pudong in Shanghai, China March 27, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song A flurry of data in coming weeks is expected to show China posted solid economic growth in March, as President Xi Jinpin... More »
FILE PHOTO: A worker installs rubber onto the windows of the doors along a production line at a truck factory of Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Co. Ltd (JAC Motors) in Hefei, Anhui province May 5, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo Factories across much of Asia pos... More »
FILE PHOTO – A man works around a metal procession machine at a factory in Urayasu, east of Tokyo October 9, 2014. REUTERS/Issei Kato Japanese big manufacturers’ business confidence improved for a second straight quarter to hit a one-and-a-half year high in Ma... More »
Japanese manufacturing activity expanded in March at a slightly slower pace than the previous month as growth in new export orders and output slowed, a revised survey showed on Monday. More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Care at freestanding emergency departments may cost about 10 times more than similar treatment at urgent care cent More »
FILE PHOTO: A woman walks at the Bund in front of the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai March 5, 2015. REUTERS/Aly Song As China’s banks prepare for a rigorous quarterly inspection of their books by the central bank, the ructions in money markets and an... More »
Two passengers aboard a ferry look at the Sydney Harbour Bridge as they approach Circular Quay in Sydney, Australia, March 29, 2017. REUTERS/Steven Saphore Australian households saw their wealth balloon to a record A$11.7 trillion ($8.97 trillion) last quarter... More »
Lights are on as people work in their offices in a skyscraper in downtown Milan, February 17, 2015. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini/File Photo Businesses across the euro zone marked the end of the first quarter by ramping up activity at the fastest pace in almost s... More »
Lights are on as people work in their offices in a skyscraper in downtown Milan, February 17, 2015. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini/File Photo Businesses across the euro zone marked the end of the first quarter by ramping up activity at the fastest pace in almost s... More »
China’s debt risks are “very much under control”, but local governments must ensure that the increase in their debt spending this year is within stipulated limits, Vice Finance Minister Liu Wei said on Friday. More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Comfort care for advanced cancer patients is associated with fewer repeat hospitalizations and more hospice referr More »
File photo: A laborer works in a container area at a port in Tokyo, Japan, March 16, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Japan’s exports grew the most in more than two years in February, rebounding from a Lunar New Year slowdown in January, as a widening trade surplus wi... More »
FILE PHOTO: Containers are seen at an industrial port in Yokohama, Japan, January 16, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon Japan’s exports probably rose at the fastest pace in two years in February thanks to a softer yen and improving global demand, a Reuters poll sho... More »
By Carolyn Crist(Reuters Health) – Neighborhoods with a high proportion of black residents or high poverty tend to have the greatest density of store More »
China’s Premier Li Keqiang gestures as he arrives for a news conference after the closing ceremony of China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, March 15, 2017. REUTERS/Jason Lee China’s Premier Li Keqiang said ... More »
New Zealand’s economy, which surged in 2016’s third quarter, likely cooled in the final three months, as heavy spring rain cut dairy production and a deadly earthquake struck. More »
People wait in line to enter the Nassau County Mega Job Fair at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, U.S. October 7, 2014. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo U.S. job growth increased more than expected in February and wages rose steadil... More »
U.S. job growth increased more than expected in February and wages rose steadily, which could give the Federal Reserve the green light to raise interest rates next week despite slowing economic growth. More »
File photo: Flags of G20 countries are seen outside the G20 venue before the start of the G20 Summit of major world economies in Cannes November 3, 2011. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez Global efforts to create a market for growth-linked bonds that could help avert deb... More »
By Carolyn Crist(Reuters Health) – Women with access to free long-term birth control after an abortion are more likely to use it and avoid future pre More »
By Ronnie Cohen(Reuters Health) – Up to one-fourth of adults in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from chronic kidney disease and only a small fraction ever More »
FILE PHOTO: A worker works at a construction site in Shanghai, China March 3, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo Lin Wong More »
By Carolyn Crist(Reuters Health) – Even months after a stroke, survivors can make major strides in communication and quality of life with intensive s More »
File Photo: A trader speaks on the phone during a trading session on the trading floor of Frankfurt’s stock exchange, Germany, December 17, 2015. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski Investor sentiment in the euro zone improved more than expected in March, hitting its highe... More »
By Andrew M. Seaman(Reuters Health) – – Obese people in the U.S. may not receive the same kind of care at the end of their lives as people who are t More »
A man works at the assembly line in the truck production plant of truck and bus-maker MAN AG in Munich, Germany July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle Activity in euro zone businesses grew at its quickest pace in nearly six years in February and job creation re... More »
Businessmen are seen on the esplanade of La Defense, in the financial and business district in La Defense, west of Paris, September 19, 2014. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann Activity in the French private sector picked up in February to expand at a pace not seen si... More »
Loading cranes are seen at a shipping terminal in the harbour in Hamburg September 18, 2014. Picture taken September 18. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer Growth in Germany’s services sector accelerated in February after weakening to a four-month low at the start of the y... More »
People are seen at a market street in Tokyo, Japan, January 23, 2017. Picture taken on January 23, 2017. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon Japan’s core consumer prices rose for the first time in over a year in January thanks to a pickup in energy costs, but a slump in ho... More »
A basket vendor walks past red lanterns serving as decorations to celebrate the new year outside a shopping mall in Kunming, Yunnan province January 6, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer Activity in China’s services sector expanded at the slowest pace in four months in Fe... More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Skin cancers caused by indoor tanning are responsible for $343 million a year in direct medical costs for U.S. pat More »
A man works at the assembly line in the truck production plant of truck and bus-maker MAN AG in Munich, Germany July 30, 2015. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle Euro zone manufacturing growth accelerated to a six-year high in February as a weaker euro helped drive strong... More »
An employee works on an assembly line producing automobiles at a factory in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China, March 1, 2016. REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo Asian factories extended a global manufacturing revival as activity picked up steam in February, though th... More »
President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he arrives at the podium. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst President Donald Trump opened the door on Tuesday to a broad overhaul of the U.S. immigration system and vowed to pursue massive tax relief for the middle class in a spee... More »
A labourer cuts steel bars at a railway bridge construction site in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, China, September 12, 2015. REUTERS/China Daily China’s factory activity expanded faster than expected in February as domestic and export demand picked up, adding... More »
A shopper passes a ”Sale” sign at Quincy Market in downtown in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. January 11, 2017. REUTERS/Brian Snyder The U.S. economy is on track to grow at a 2.5 percent annualized pace in the first quarter following the latest data on home sales... More »
A factory floor of XCMG Group is seen in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, China August 14, 2015. REUTERS/Brenda Goh/File Photo Activity in China’s manufacturing sector likely grew modestly for the seventh month in a row in February as resources prices extended a rapi... More »
China for the first time became Germany’s most important trading partner in 2016, overtaking the United States, which fell back to third place behind France, data showed on Friday. More »
By Carolyn Crist(Reuters Health) – Consumers increasingly turn to commercial physician-rating websites, similar to those for restaurants and hotels, More »
People carry bags outside a shopping mall on the last day of Christmas shopping in Berlin December 23, 2014. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke The German economy quadrupled its growth rate to 0.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016 as higher state spending, rising p... More »
By Madeline Kennedy(Reuters Health) – As cancer drug costs rise, U.S. cancer patients are more likely than other medical patients to struggle with pa More »
A real estate sign advertising a new home for sale is pictured in Vienna, Virginia, U.S. October 20, 2014. REUTERS/Larry Downing/File Photo Refinancings’ share of U.S. mortgage applications shrank to its lowest level since late 2008 at the peak of the global c... More »
Workers walk to work during the morning rush hour in the financial district of Canary Wharf in London, Britain, January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh Britain’s economy accelerated at the end of 2016 but growth for the whole year was weaker than previously thou... More »
Employees work at Computed Tomography ‘CAT scan’ at the manufacturing plant of Siemens Healthineers in Forchheim near Nuremberg, Germany, October 7, 2016. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle German business morale brightened unexpectedly in February as managers’ assessment... More »
FILE PHOTO:A worker walks in the foundry at the Areva Creusot Forge site in Le Creusot, France, January 11, 2017. REUTERS/Robert Pratta/File Photo Euro zone inflation rose to an annual rate of 1.8 percent in January, the European Union statistics agency said o... More »
Employees use sewing machines as they work at the Royal Mer Bretagne factory, a specialist in French manufactured knitted clothes, in La Regrippiere, western France, November 28, 2016. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe Eurozone private sector and manufacturing growth unex... More »
Men walk toward the Bank of Japan (BOJ) building in Tokyo, Japan, September 21, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai The likelihood of more monetary stimulus in Japan is diminishing, according to a Reuters poll of economists who were largely split on the central bank’s ne... More »
Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos talks to European Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici (R) during a eurozone finance ministers meeting in Brussels, Belgium February 20, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir Greece and its international... More »
Newly manufactured vehicles await export at a port in Yokohama, Japan, January 16, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Japan’s exports are seen rising for the second straight month in January, supported by a global economic recovery and a soft yen while imports are expec... More »
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Urjit Patel smiles while attending a seminar during the Vibrant Gujarat investor summit in Gandhinagar, India, January 11, 2017. REUTERS/Amit Dave The governor of India’s central bank said it needs to look beyond recent... More »
FILE PHOTO – People look at job listings at the Careers and Jobs Live careers fair at the ExCeL centre in London April 19, 2009. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/File Photo British workers saw their pay grow more slowly than expected at the end of last year, official da... More »
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (L) welcomes European Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici at the Maximos Mansion in Athens, Greece February 15, 2017. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis European Economic and Financial Affairs Commissioner... More »
By Lisa Rapaport(Reuters Health) – Doctors may diagnose breast cancer later and be less likely to offer needed radiation for Hispanic immigrants than More »
FILE PHOTO – A woman pauses as she shops at a wholesale market in Yiwu, Zhejiang province January 11, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo China’s producer price inflation picked up more than expected in January to near six-year highs as prices of steel and ... More »
The Greek (L) and European Union flags are seen behind a stop sign in front of the Greek embassy in Vienna, Austria, February 25, 2016. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger Germany on Monday voiced support for Greece to stay in the euro zone and the European Commission dis... More »
People walk on a street at Tokyo’s Ginza shopping district, Japan, February 12, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai Japan’s economy grew for a fourth straight quarter in the final three months of last year as a weaker yen supported exports, but tepid private consumption ... More »
A Greek flag flutters in the wind as tourists visit the archaeological site of the Acropolis hill in Athens, Greece July 26, 2015. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun/File Photo Euro zone lenders and the International Monetary Fund have reached agreed between themselves to p... More »
FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, February 7, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/File Photo The euro zone must remain as one bloc, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday, urging members of the single c... More »
Christian Lindner, chairman of the liberal Free Democratic Party FDP addresses the media in Berlin, Germany, March 14, 2016. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay Greece should leave the euro zone and then be given debt relief, the head of Germany’s pro-business Free Democr... More »
Economic growth appears to be picking up in the United States, Japan, Germany and France, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said on Wednesday. More »
Workers walk to work during the morning rush hour in the financial district of Canary Wharf in London, Britain, January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh British employers expect to offer less generous pay deals this year compared with 2016 despite rising inflatio... More »
The dollar sign (R) is seen alongside the signs for other currencies above a currency exchange shop in Mongkok shopping district in Hong Kong, China, October 30, 2014. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj/File Photo China’s foreign exchange reserves unexpectedly fell below th... More »
By Lisa RapaportCash incentives may encourage new mothers to breastfeed until their infants are at least six months old, a small experiment suggests. More »
REFILE – CLARIFYING CAPTION A man rides his tricycle with placards as he takes part in a rally to show support for Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari in Abuja, Nigeria Febuary 6, 2017. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde Hundreds of Nigerians called for a change of gove... More »
A vendor waits for customers at his shop in a market in Beijing, February 18, 2016. REUTERS/Jason Lee China vowed on Tuesday to contain high company debt levels and further cut excess coal and steel capacity, as Beijing attempts to maintain solid and more bala... More »
A security guard keeps watch on the Bund in front of the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai, China October 19, 2016. REUTERS/Aly Song China’s economic growth in 2016 was expected to be around 6.7 percent, Xu Shaoshi, director of the National Development ... More »
Rolls of steel are stacked inside the China Steel Corporation factory, in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan August 26, 2016. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu/File Photo China’s factory activity picked up more than expected in December as demand accelerated, with output reaching a ... More »
Argentina declared $97.842 billion in assets by the completion of a second phase of a tax amnesty program that ended on Dec. 31, the government said on Monday. More »
By Andrew M. Seaman(Reuters Health) – Drugs recently approved around the world to fight cancer increased patients’ overall survival, but benefits va More »
