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  • USA TODAY

    Did you get a text about unpaid road tolls? It could be a 'smishing' scam, FBI says

    The FBI said it has received over 2,000 complaints reporting smishing texts representing road toll collection services in at least three states.

  • Reuters

    UK wage growth and services inflation too high for rate cut, BoE's Greene says

    Britain's latest wage growth and services price inflation data is too high for the Bank of England to consider cutting interest rates, BoE policymaker Megan Greene said on Thursday. "The numbers that we're seeing in terms of wage growth and services inflation just aren't consistent with a sustainable 2% (consumer price) inflation target," she said during a discussion hosted by the U.S. Atlantic Council think tank. Last week Greene wrote that interest rate cuts in Britain should remain "a way off" because of persistent inflation pressure, and that she expected the BoE to cut interest rates by less than the U.S. Federal Reserve would this year.

  • Reuters

    UPDATE 1-US to reduce licensing by 80% for UK, Australia to boost AUKUS

    The U.S. Commerce Department is scaling back export control requirements for Australia and the United Kingdom to foster defense trade under the three countries' AUKUS security pact, reducing licensing burdens for trade valued at more than $7.5 billion. Under a rule changed posted by Commerce on Thursday, U.S. export licensing for the UK and Australia will be nearly the same as Canada. The new rule allows Commerce-controlled military items, missile technology and hot engine items to be exported to Australia and the UK without a license, including certain satellite related items, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) said in a statement.