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(Bloomberg) -- Chile’s economy returned to growth in the third quarter as demand firmed, providing limited relief to President Gabriel Boric’s administration as it prepares to cut its forecast for expansion this year.Most Read from BloombergIn Cleveland, a Forgotten Streetcar Bridge Gets a Long-Awaited LiftParis to Replace Parking Spaces With TreesAmtrak Wins $300 Million to Fix Its Unreliable NJ-to-NYC ServiceA Bug’s Eye View of Mexico City’s Modernist ArchitectureNew York’s Transit Agency Appr

(Bloomberg) -- The energy trader seeking to buy UK gas assets from Shell Plc and Exxon Mobil Corp. was sued over allegations that he diverted money from an Iranian petrochemical company that was later banned from doing business in the US.Most Read from BloombergIn Cleveland, a Forgotten Streetcar Bridge Gets a Long-Awaited LiftAmtrak Wins $300 Million to Fix Its Unreliable NJ-to-NYC ServiceA Bug’s Eye View of Mexico City’s Modernist ArchitectureParis to Replace Parking Spaces With TreesNYC Conge

(Bloomberg) -- A Singapore court has sentenced oil tycoon Lim Oon Kuin to 17-and-half years in jail for cheating HSBC Holdings Plc and instigating forgery, in a case that has shaken the city-state’s commodity-trading community.Most Read from BloombergIn Cleveland, a Forgotten Streetcar Bridge Gets a Long-Awaited LiftAmtrak Wins $300 Million to Fix Its Unreliable NJ-to-NYC ServiceA Bug’s Eye View of Mexico City’s Modernist ArchitectureParis to Replace Parking Spaces With TreesNYC Congestion Prici

The U.S. Federal Reserve is no longer expected to cut interest rates at its December policy meeting, Nomura has said, making it the first global brokerage to signal a pause in the central bank's rate-cutting cycle in the wake of Donald Trump's election win. Nomura now expects the Fed to deliver only two 25-basis-point (bp) rate reductions at its March and June meetings in 2025, leaving the brokerage's Fed funds rate projection unchanged at 4.125% through next year. The Fed's benchmark overnight interest rate is currently in the 4.50%-4.75% range.

(Bloomberg) -- Australia’s monetary policy effect is no more potent than those of other advanced economies, even though its households carry a large stock of variable-rate mortgage debt, a senior Reserve Bank official said.Most Read from BloombergIn Cleveland, a Forgotten Streetcar Bridge Gets a Long-Awaited LiftAmtrak Wins $300 Million to Fix Its Unreliable NJ-to-NYC ServiceA Bug’s Eye View of Mexico City’s Modernist ArchitectureNYC Congestion Pricing Plan With $9 Toll to Start in JanuaryChicag

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President-elect Donald Trump has picked Brendan Carr, a critic of the Biden administration's telecom policies and Big Tech, as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, he said in a statement on Sunday. Carr, 45, is currently the top Republican on the FCC, the independent agency that regulates telecommunications. He has been a harsh critic of the FCC's decision not to finalize nearly $900 million in broadband subsidies for Elon Musk's SpaceX satellite internet unit Starlink, as well as the Commerce Department's $42 billion broadband infrastructure program and President Joe Biden's spectrum policy.

(Bloomberg) -- Gold will rally to a record next year on central-bank buying and US interest rate cuts, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which listed the metal among top commodity trades for 2025 and said prices could extend gains during Donald Trump’s presidency.Most Read from BloombergIn Cleveland, a Forgotten Streetcar Bridge Gets a Long-Awaited LiftAmtrak Wins $300 Million to Fix Its Unreliable NJ-to-NYC ServiceA Bug’s Eye View of Mexico City’s Modernist ArchitectureNYC Congestion Prici