Christian Smith: No bones about it. The midterm elections were a bad result for President Trump and the Republicans. Safe Republican seats flipped across the United States, leaving Trump facing two years of a lame duck presidency at a time of enormous change in geopolitics, with JD Vance blaming the loss on the war with…
By Damian Sanchez and Lizbeth Diaz TAPACHULA, Mexico, Nov 11 (Reuters) – More than a thousand migrants were walking northward on Wednesday in a caravan through southern Mexico, spurred by last week’s Democratic victory in US midterm elections, which raised hopes that US immigration policies could become more welcoming. The group, estimated by a Chiapas…
African telecoms heavyweight Vodacom has ruled out spinning off its financial services unit, its CEO Shameel Joosub told Semafor, rejecting a path taken by rivals seeking to extract more value from fast-growing mobile money businesses. Joosub’s stance potentially sets up a test of two competing strategies across Africa’s telecoms sector after Airtel Money’s London listing…
1. Economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa has remained broadly stable despite regional and domestic headwinds. Regional growth is projected to increase from 4.1% in 2025 to 4.3% in 2026, with growth projections upgraded for nearly three-quarters of countries in the region. 2. While growth is gradually strengthening, it remains insufficient to substantially reduce extreme poverty…
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The Mexican Peso (MXN) recovered some ground against the US Dollar (USD) on Wednesday after losing 0.45% in the previous week, following a US inflation report that was higher than expected, which increased the odds of further Federal Reserve (Fed) tightening. Source link
Christine Lagarde’s early exit as president of the European Central Bank will not hold up the digital euro, an ECB official said on Tuesday at the Web Summit in Lisbon, one of Europe’s largest technology conferences. Alessandro Giovannini, adviser to the programme manager of the digital euro project, pointed to the pilot starting next year…
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a large prisoner exchange during U.S.-mediated talks. However, no major breakthroughs were announced in efforts to end the war that began nearly five years
