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"It's probably too much," said former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge of the federal government's new affordability measures. "But the structure of providing essentially lump sum transfers to lower income people is probably the least...

It could take months to counter the downward effects of the coronavirus, says Gareth Watson, a wealth adviser with Richardson GMP.

Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell said the U.S. Central bank will not predict the economy's fate until it knows what policies the next trump government will impose. The fed did not react in this way to the 2016 election of Donald...

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves discusses the state of the nation's economy following her spring statement in the House of Commons in London on Wednesday. She also talks about extra tariffs planned by US President Donald...

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves will blame global economic headwinds as she slashes government spending by billions of pounds in her Spring statement today. "Our task is to secure Britain's future in a world that is changing...

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivered her spring statement in the House of Commons in London on Wednesday. In the speech, she commented on fiscal headroom, headwinds facing the global economy, the Office for Budget...

UK Economic Secretary to the Treasury Emma Reynolds discusses Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves' spring statement. "We are a responsible government, we promised people change, but we also promised people that we would restore...

UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves said the UK would be £4.1 billion ($5.3 billion) in deficit in 2029/30 had she not taken new measures in her spring economic update. After her cuts, the headroom was fully restored to £9.9...

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves says the Office for Budget Responsibility has revised down its growth forecast for the UK in 2025 and now sees it at 1%, down from the 2% predicted in the autumn. She made the comments during her...

The Office for Budget Responsibility said the UK's planning reforms will permanently increase the level of real GDP by 0.2% in 2029/30 and "by 0.4% of GDP within 10 years," Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves told the House of...

HSBC Global Head Of Markets & Securities Services Patrick George discusses growth amid trade and tariff rebalancing. Patrick speaks exclusively to Bloomberg's David Ingles on the sidelines of the 'HSBC Global Investment Summit' in Hong Kong

Ifo President Clemens Fuest discusses the institute's latest reading on German business confidence which rose to the highest level since June 2024 as Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz readies hundreds of billions of euros of spending...

Seema Shah, chief global strategist at Principal Asset Management, says the optimism on international equities could see a bit of a step back in the near term as the reality of tariffs sets in, but "the world is a bigger place now" with...

Guggenheim Securities co-Chair James Millstein says the Federal Reserve is "frozen" until there is more clarity on the Trump administration's tariff policy. Speaking on "Bloomberg Open Interest," Millstein also comments on US fiscal...

Aidan Yao of Amundi Investment Institute says "China represents a more formidable challenge to the US exceptionalism story." According to Yao, China's leadership in some areas of AI development, in particular the rise of DeepSeek, "is...

David Rosenberg, founder and president of Rosenberg Research, says Canada can't win a tit-for-tat tariff war with the US. He says Canadian politicians should not even be talking about President Donald Trump. He speaks with BNN...

How have fared countries fared five years after they took differing approaches to restrict their activities? Senior fellow at the Cato Institute Johan Norberg talks about Sweden's "less restrictive approach" and its surprisingly low...

Canada's finance minister Dominic LeBlanc tells BNN Bloomberg Television that "the continued significant spending in a bunch of areas has to be ratcheted down." LeBlanc says the size of government needs to be reviewed as the country...

Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Chang-yong pushed back against mounting speculation of an interest-rate cut later this month as he emphasized the role of fiscal stimulus in shoring up an economy threatened by Donald Trump's tariffs. He...

German private-sector activity stabilized in January after six months in decline, an unexpected improvement that'll be welcomed by politicians before snap elections next month. Economists had expected the gauge to keep pointing to...

Bill Dudley, a Bloomberg Opinion columnist and former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, discusses the potential economic impact of President Donald Trump's tariff policies. Speaking on "Bloomberg The Close," Dudley also...

Paul Ryan, Former US House Speaker, comments on US trade, deficit, and US growth speaking on Bloomberg Television at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.