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Federal Labor is being pushed to deliver on a budget promise for a "meaningful and substantial package" of grants and cheap loans for electrification, as power bills soar.Saul Griffith, co-founder of community organisation Rewiring…

The Alberta government may have to return $130 million in leftover funding to the federal government after not spending the money to clean up old oil and gas wells.The cash is part of the federal government's $1.7-billion program in 2020…

President Biden's order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 was blocked Thursday by a federal appeals court. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans rejected arguments that Mr. Biden, as the…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size U.S. President Joe Biden’s order that federal employees get vaccinated against COVID-19 was blocked Thursday by a…

NEW DELHI: The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday, but indicated it was on the verge of pausing further increases in borrowing costs amid recent turmoil in financial markets spurred by…

Crisis is a great teacher — for central bankers and for the rest of us.Canadians who thought money was an unchanging unit for earning, saving and spending learned their lesson from a year of inflation.And anyone who thought banks were…

The Full Federal Court has dismissed appeals from both Mazda and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) concerning a ruling it made in November 2021.The ACCC had appealed the ruling, arguing Mazda did in fact engage in…

Powell acknowledged that some banks may reduce their pace of lending at a time of high anxiety in the financial system. Any such pullback in lending, he said, could slow the economy and possibly act as the equivalent of an additional…

Despite the crisis in banking which many have put down to interest rate rises, they’re still going up. The US Federal Reserve raised its benchmark lending rate on Wednesday, as it sought to strike a balance between curbing high inflation…

It would also amplify what has effectively been a tightening of financial conditions in the US because of the destabilisation of the regional banks, which provide about half of all commercial lending, 60 per cent of lending for…