Mark Carney: Now is not yet the time to raise interest rates

Bank of England Governor Mark Carney said on 19 January that he did not have a set timetable for raising British interest rates and wanted to see faster growth and stronger underlying inflation first. Carney said global and domestic growth had proved weaker than he had expected in the middle of the year, when he predicted that a decision on when to raise interest rates would have come into sharper relief by early 2016. Jan 19, 2016

Ted Cruz: Obamas proposal to allow Syrian refugees in the country as ‘indefensible’

Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz cited the arrest in Houston and Sacramento of two men from the Middle East as a reason to block Syrian refugees from resettling in the US. Two men who came to the United States as refugees more than three years ago were arrested on federal charges in California and Texas involving international terrorism, the US officials said on 7 January. Jan 8, 2016