By Lefteris Papadimas and Howard Schneider ATHENS/WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Governor Stephen Miran said on Wednesday comments from foreign central banks in defense of U.S. central bank chief Jerome Powell were inappropriate, a remark that stood in contrast to an outpouring of public support for Powell, including from other Fed policymakers, after…

LONDON, Jan 13 (Reuters) – The Trump administration’s decision to open a criminal investigation into the head of the Federal Reserve has intensified fears about the independence of the U.S. central bank, the top policymaking body for the world’s biggest economy. President Donald Trump has criticised the Fed and its chair, Jerome Powell, for not…

By Sheila Dang and Jarrett Renshaw Jan 9 (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods said on Friday the U.S. oil major is ready to evaluate a potential return to Venezuela in what would be a stunning development after its assets in the South American country were nationalized nearly 20 years ago. Woods, however, said Venezuela…

Jan 9 (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government has begun exploring the potential to expand diplomatic ties with the United States, with U.S. State Department officials traveling to Caracas for technical and logistical assessments, it said in a statement on Friday. The State Department separately said the U.S. officials were assessing a “potential phased resumption” of embassy…

By Ted Hesson and Kristina Cooke WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown increasingly is sparking violent confrontations with both migrants and U.S. citizens, a development grimly underscored by an ICE officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman this week. Under Trump’s orders to ramp up deportations, masked immigration officers…

(Corrects paragraph 4 to say Democratic Progressive Party, not Democratic People’s Party) By Greg Torode and Yimou Lee HONG KONG/TAIPEI, Jan 9 (Reuters) – Some Chinese online users are calling for a lightning Venezuela-style snatch of Taiwan’s leaders in a prelude to taking over the island, but analysts, scholars and security officials say China’s modernising…

By Dmitry Zhdannikov, Shariq Khan and Robert Harvey LONDON/NEW YORK, Jan 8 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has invited the bosses of commodity trading houses Vitol and Trafigura to the White House on Friday for talks on marketing Venezuelan oil, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. European trading houses have traditionally…

By Niket Nishant and Pranav Kashyap Jan 9 (Reuters) – European shares ended Friday at a record high, powered by a surge in Glencore that helped put the STOXX 600 on its longest weekly winning streak since May. After two straight losing sessions, the rebound underscored investors’ resilience, even as a run of weak earnings…

Meet America’s Newest B Unicorn Today’s Breaking News ⏳ The “Skim Codes” That Helped Make $274 Million [sponsor] US single-family housing starts rebound in October, building permits dip Single-family housing starts, which account for the bulk of homebuilding, increased 5.4% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 874,000 units in October, the Commerce Department’s Census Bureau…