NEW YORK-- Brookfield Office Properties Inc. said Friday that its fourth-quarter funds from operations rose 5 percent, beating Wall Street predictions, and issued a better-than-expected outlook for 2013..
WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK, Feb 1- Two top Federal Reserve officials painted a picture of cautious optimism on Friday for the U.S. economy in 2013, helped by stronger global growth as the central bank aggressively prints money to curb the nation's lofty rate of unemployment. But New York Federal Reserve President William Dudley and St.
ROME, Feb 1- Giuseppe Mussari, former chairman of Monte dei Paschi, has few friends these days as a scandal swamps the bank. A 50- year-old lawyer from Calabria with a passing resemblance to the late screen legend Marcello Mastroianni, Mussari had not sought a new term as Monte dei Paschi chairman and left the bank on April 27, 2012.
WASHINGTON, Feb 1- The U.S. economy is on track for a better performance this year and improving growth will put the Federal Reserve in a position to slow or halt its massive bond-buying program, a top central bank official said on Friday.
*One dissenter to January rate cut signal. MEXICO CITY, Feb 1- Mexico's central bankers disagreed over whether to send a signal that they might cut interest rates if inflation keeps cooling, according to minutes of their January discussions, released on Friday.