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The Swiss National Bank said the country's economic outlook 'has deteriorated due to significantly higher US tariffs'

Business

Swiss central bank keeps zero-rate as tariffs take their toll

Switzerland’s central bank kept its policy rate at zero percent on Thursday, warning that massive US tariffs are weighing on the country’s export-dependent economy....

AFPSeptember 25, 2025

According to official figures, inflation -- which has several countries in Latin America and elsewhere in its grips -- reached 70 percent in import-dependent Cuba in 2021 and 39 percent in 2022

World

Soaring inflation wallops Cubans already battling shortages

Cuban retiree Xiomara Castellanos gets a monthly pension equivalent to $13.80. A carton of 30 eggs in the inflation-battered country costs $14.10 — almost...

AFPApril 3, 2023

World

Cuba gripped in dollar frenzy, peso under pressure

The US dollar, nigh impossible to obtain legally in communist-run Cuba, has become a coveted commodity raking in double the state-determined exchange rate on...

AFPFebruary 2, 2021

World

Dollar makes a comeback as Cuba readies currency devaluation

The US dollar is making a comeback as the favored currency in communist-run Cuba as the country prepares to devalue the peso to relieve...

AFPOctober 10, 2020

World

New Fed Chair Yellen keeps policy on track

New Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen kept the central bank firmly on the path set by predecessor Ben Bernanke Wednesday, shrugging off recent economic...

AFPMarch 19, 2014