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FinanceJapan’s Cabinet Approves Record Budget, Faces Tough Parliament Fight
Japan’s Cabinet Approves Record Budget, Faces Tough Parliament Fight
Date: December 27, 2024
By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s cabinet on Friday approved a record $730 billion budget for the next fiscal year, while limiting new bond issuance to the lowest in 17 years on the back of record tax revenue. However, Ishiba’s minority government faces a tough political battle with opposition parties to...
Moldova’s Parliament Passes 2025 Budget With Deficit at 4% of GDP
Date: December 26, 2024
KYIV (Reuters) – Moldova’s parliament approved the budget for 2025 with a deficit of 4.05% of gross domestic product (GDP) on Thursday. Budget revenues were put at 71.6 billion Moldovan lei ($3.9 billion), up by 6.8% compared with 2024, and the expenditures were put at 85.4 billion lei, up by 4.1%. The state debt is...
Italy’s Treasury, Asterion File Binding Bid for Telecom Italia Subsea Unit
Date: December 19, 2024
ROME (Reuters) – A consortium led by the Italian economy ministry has filed a 700 million euro ($733 million) binding offer for Telecom Italia’s (TIM) submarine cable unit Sparkle, the ministry said on Thursday. The ministry is bidding with Retelit, an Italian fibre network operator owned by Spanish infrastructure fund Asterion. The offer is valid...
Global Debt Surges Past $320 Trillion as Risk Appetite Returns- Iif
Date: December 3, 2024
By Libby George LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s debt stock surged by over $12 trillion in the first three quarters of 2024 to a fresh record of nearly $323 trillion, thanks to falling borrowing costs and rising risk appetite, a report by a banking trade group showed on Tuesday. Large government budget deficits suggest that...
Budget Woes Push French Borrowing Costs Above Crisis-Scarred Greece
Date: December 2, 2024
By Harry Robertson LONDON (Reuters) -French borrowing costs rose above those of Greece on Monday for the first time, as Michel Barnier’s government teetered on the brink of collapse, underlining a dramatic shift in how lenders view the creditworthiness of euro zone members. The far-right National Rally (RN) party on Monday said it was ready...
Italy Pushes Back Poste Stake Sale to 2025, Sources Say
Date: November 29, 2024
By Giuseppe Fonte, Elvira Pollina and Elisa Anzolin ROME/MILAN (Reuters) – Italy will postpone until next year the sale of up to a 14% stake in postal service Poste Italiane which was originally expected by early December, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Friday. State-controlled Poste said last month the approval of...