Bloomberg Sales of previously owned US homes fall in March to the lowest since June 2020 as historically low inventory paired with rising mortgage rates curbed purchases. Contract closings decreased 2.7% in March from the prior month to an annualised 5.77 million, figures from the National Association of Realtors showed. The figure was in line with estimates in a ...

  Bloomberg Billions of dollars in Argentine technology exports are going unreported as companies and freelance workers skirt currency controls, according to an industry group. About $2.2 billion of service exports from the country’s technology sector may go unreported in official data this year, according to Luis Galeazzi, executive director of Argencon, an advocacy group that published its semiannual report ...

  Bloomberg Canadian consumer price inflation shot past expectations in March, jumping to a new three-decade high and cementing expectations the Bank of Canada will continue with aggressive interest rate hikes in coming weeks. Annual inflation rises to 6.7% last month, up from 5.7% in February, Statistics Canada reported in Ottawa. That’s the highest since January 1991 and exceeds the ...