Inflation and Deflation

By Caroline Stauffer and Silvio Cascione SALTO, Brazil, May 3 (Reuters) - Brazil, an up-and-coming agricultural superpower with abundant fertile land, is struggling to provide consistently affordable food for its population. To understand how,...

SALTO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil, an up-and-coming agricultural superpower with abundant fertile land, is struggling to provide consistently affordable food for its population. To understand how, consider the tomato. Prices of the red fruit shot up...

RICHMOND, Virginia (Reuters) - Stronger U.S. job creation in April reinforces the argument to scale back Federal Reserve bond purchases, one of the central bank's most hawkish policy-makers said on Friday, after better than expected data eased concern the...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's central bank cut interest rates on Friday by a quarter point for the third time since January but said there is little room for further policy easing, disappointing investors and putting the onus on the government to revive a...

By Gerard Wynn LONDON, May 3 (Reuters) - Policymakers around the world are turning to the private sector to finance a massive expansion of electric grids and Britain's experience in funding offshore wind projects holds lessons on consumers over-paying as...

By Mike Dolan LONDON, May 3 (Reuters) - For all the trillions of dollars-worth in new money that central banks are printing, financial markets seem to be signalling that fears of rampant global inflation are unfounded. Over the past month, investors...

WASHINGTON -- For most Americans, Europe is out of sight and out of mind. We figure that the worst of its debt crisis has passed. Italy has a new government. To mute social unrest, some countries are slightly relaxing austerity policies. The European...

By Suvashree Dey Choudhury and Tony Munroe MUMBAI, May 3 (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of India is expected to cut its policy interest rate by a quarter point on Friday for the third time this year as it looks to bolster an economy growing at a decade low...

BRATISLAVA, May 2 (Reuters) - Extended weak economic activity and tame inflation persuaded the European Central Bank to cut interest rates, ECB President Mario Draghi said on Thursday. In the past month, confidence indicators have slumped, triggering...

BRATISLAVA, May 2 (Reuters) - - The European Central Bank made its first interest rate cut in 10 months on Thursday, taking its main rate to a record low 0.50 percent in response to a sharp drop in inflation and rising unemployment. Following is the text...

The U.S. Federal Reserve, which described the economy as "expanding moderately," said Wednesday it will continue to buy $85 billion in bonds each month to push down borrowing costs and prop up the economy. Fed officials said there was continued...

(James Saft is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are his own) By James Saft May 2 (Reuters) - Put away the sunblock and beach towels, for central bankers this is going to be yet another summer of extraordinary measures. Major central banks...