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UK shop prices rise at slowest pace since December 2021

UK shop prices rise at slowest pace since December 2021

LONDON (Reuters) – Prices in British shops rose at the slowest pace in more than two years in March, the British Retail Consorti..

Disney edges ahead in battle for board seats with activist investors

Disney edges ahead in battle for board seats with activist investors

Disney edges ahead in battle for board seats with activist investors By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Dawn Chmielewski NEW YORK (Reuters) &#..

UBS launches new $2bn share buyback

UBS launches new $2bn share buyback

UBS launches new $2bn share buyback ZURICH (Reuters) -UBS on Tuesday announced it was launching a new share buyback programme of up to..

BMW and India’s Tata Technologies to form JV for developing software

BMW and India’s Tata Technologies to form JV for developing software

BMW and India’s Tata Technologies to form JV for developing software BENGALURU (Reuters) -BMW Group and Tata Technologies will f..

King Charles greets well-wishers after Easter Sunday service

King Charles greets well-wishers after Easter Sunday service

King Charles greets well-wishers after Easter Sunday service By Hollie Adams WINDSOR, England (Reuters) -Britain’s King Charles ..

China believes France will provide fair business environment for Chinese firms, foreign ministry says

China believes France will provide fair business environment for Chinese firms, foreign ministry says

China believes France will provide fair business environment for Chinese firms, foreign ministry says BEIJING (Reuters) – China ..

Exclusive-Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny

Exclusive-Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny

Exclusive-Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Microsoft..

Xiaomi’s EV buyers face up to seven-month wait for car, app shows

Xiaomi’s EV buyers face up to seven-month wait for car, app shows

Xiaomi’s EV buyers face up to seven-month wait for car, app shows By Yelin Mo and Brenda Goh BEIJING (Reuters) -Xiaomi is advisi..

Stocks subdued, yen in focus, with inflation data on tap

Stocks subdued, yen in focus, with inflation data on tap

Stocks subdued, yen in focus, with inflation data on tap By Lewis Krauskopf and Amanda Cooper NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -A gauge of gl..

Hershey, Mondelez bet big on Easter as cocoa price crisis looms

Hershey, Mondelez bet big on Easter as cocoa price crisis looms

(This March 26 story has been refiled to correct the data source to ‘NielsenIQ’ from ‘Nielsen’ in paragraph 23..

Syngenta ditches multi-billion dollar China IPO bid

Syngenta ditches multi-billion dollar China IPO bid

Syngenta ditches multi-billion dollar China IPO bid BEIJING (Reuters) -Swiss agrichemicals and seeds group Syngenta on Friday withdrew..

India keen on trade deals with Britain, Oman early in Modi’s probable third term, sources say

India keen on trade deals with Britain, Oman early in Modi’s probable third term, sources say

India keen on trade deals with Britain, Oman early in Modi’s probable third term, sources say By Shivangi Acharya NEW DELHI (Reu..

UK’s Thames Water in crisis after shareholders refuse to pay up

UK’s Thames Water in crisis after shareholders refuse to pay up

By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) -Thames Water, Britain’s biggest water utility, said on Thursday its shareholders had refused to..

Mercedes partly loses class action case over diesel defeat devices

Mercedes partly loses class action case over diesel defeat devices

BERLIN (Reuters) – A German court ruled on Thursday partly in favour of consumers in a class action suit against Mercedes Benz o..

JD Sports’ January sales fall in ‘challenging’ market

JD Sports’ January sales fall in ‘challenging’ market

JD Sports’ January sales fall in ‘challenging’ market LONDON (Reuters) -British sportswear retailer JD Sports said t..

French company Valeo to use more Google Cloud AI tools

French company Valeo to use more Google Cloud AI tools

French company Valeo to use more Google Cloud AI tools PARIS (Reuters) – French car parts maker Valeo said on Thursday it would ..

BoE’s Haskel says rate cuts should be ‘a long way off’, FT reports

BoE’s Haskel says rate cuts should be ‘a long way off’, FT reports

BoE’s Haskel says rate cuts should be ‘a long way off’, FT reports (Reuters) -Bank of England (BoE) interest-rate se..

Analysis-Foreign firms’ losses from exiting Russia top $107 billion

Analysis-Foreign firms’ losses from exiting Russia top $107 billion

By Alessandro Parodi and Alexander Marrow (Reuters) – The corporate exodus from Russia since its 2022 invasion of Ukraine has co..

Climate change, AI in focus at Commonwealth’s Oct meet in Samoa

Climate change, AI in focus at Commonwealth’s Oct meet in Samoa

Climate change, AI in focus at Commonwealth’s Oct meet in Samoa By Cordelia Hsu SYDNEY (Reuters) -Climate change and efforts to ..

UK homeowners and businesses resilient to high interest rates, BoE says

UK homeowners and businesses resilient to high interest rates, BoE says

LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) – British mortgage holders and businesses are generally coping well with high interest rates and prob..

Analysis – Europe’s gas stocks point to healthy supply next winter

Analysis – Europe’s gas stocks point to healthy supply next winter

By Susanna Twidale, Marwa Rashad and Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) – The European Union will have plenty of gas in stock next..

Factbox-European companies cut jobs as economy sputters

Factbox-European companies cut jobs as economy sputters

(Reuters) – The highest inflation for decades and the impact of the war in Ukraine have forced companies across Europe into layo..

Big Oil’s climate planning not good enough, investor group says

Big Oil’s climate planning not good enough, investor group says

Big Oil’s climate planning not good enough, investor group says By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) -The current low-carbon transit..

Brazil, France launch $1.1 billion program to protect Amazon rainforest

Brazil, France launch $1.1 billion program to protect Amazon rainforest

Brazil, France launch $1.1 billion program to protect Amazon rainforest By Ueslei Marcelino BELEM, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazil and France..

UK’s ASOS posts 18% drop in first-half sales

UK’s ASOS posts 18% drop in first-half sales

UK’s ASOS posts 18% drop in first-half sales LONDON (Reuters) – Online fashion retailer ASOS posted an 18% drop in sales i..

German consumer sentiment stays on slow recovery path, finds GfK

German consumer sentiment stays on slow recovery path, finds GfK

German consumer sentiment stays on slow recovery path, finds GfK BERLIN (Reuters) – German consumer sentiment is expected to sta..

France’s Atos seeks debt restructuring plan by July after record losses

France’s Atos seeks debt restructuring plan by July after record losses

France’s Atos seeks debt restructuring plan by July after record losses By Augustin Turpin (Reuters) -French IT consulting firm ..

RiverRock and Horizon acquired from Ferrovial an 89.2% stake in Euroscut Azores, a Portuguese 93 km shadow toll road in the Azores

RiverRock and Horizon acquired from Ferrovial an 89.2% stake in Euroscut Azores, a Portuguese 93 km shadow toll road in the Azores

RiverRock and Horizon acquired from Ferrovial an 89.2% stake in Euroscut Azores, a Portuguese 93 km shadow toll road in the Azores Riv..

Home improvement retailer Kingfisher warns on profit outlook

Home improvement retailer Kingfisher warns on profit outlook

Home improvement retailer Kingfisher warns on profit outlook LONDON (Reuters) -European home improvement retailer Kingfisher warned on..

Talgo’s top shareholder in talks with Stadler over takeover bid, report says

Talgo’s top shareholder in talks with Stadler over takeover bid, report says

Talgo’s top shareholder in talks with Stadler over takeover bid, report says MADRID (Reuters) – Talgo’s top sharehol..

Analysis-Spain’s battle of the banks as BBVA narrows gap to Santander

Analysis-Spain’s battle of the banks as BBVA narrows gap to Santander

Analysis-Spain’s battle of the banks as BBVA narrows gap to Santander By Jesús Aguado MADRID (Reuters) – BBVA’s shar..

Analysis-Cocoa rally and market tumult hoist systematic hedge funds ahead of their peers

Analysis-Cocoa rally and market tumult hoist systematic hedge funds ahead of their peers

Analysis-Cocoa rally and market tumult hoist systematic hedge funds ahead of their peers By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Re..

Oil rises as heightened geopolitical risks exacerbate supply concerns

Oil rises as heightened geopolitical risks exacerbate supply concerns

Oil rises as heightened geopolitical risks exacerbate supply concerns By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices rose in earl..

Australia’s ANZ Group to settle credit cards class action for $37.4 million

Australia’s ANZ Group to settle credit cards class action for $37.4 million

(Reuters) – Australia’s ANZ Group said on Monday it had agreed to settle a class action suit related to interest charged o..

Thousands of Spanish bank staff strike to demand pay rise, union says

Thousands of Spanish bank staff strike to demand pay rise, union says

Thousands of Spanish bank staff strike to demand pay rise, union says MADRID (Reuters) – Around 60,000 banking employees across ..

Air Europa says customer data may have been compromised in October breach

Air Europa says customer data may have been compromised in October breach

Air Europa says customer data may have been compromised in October breach (Reuters) -Spanish airline Air Europa said on Friday persona..

Santander expects over 6 billion euros in dividends, buybacks on solid 2024 start

Santander expects over 6 billion euros in dividends, buybacks on solid 2024 start

Santander expects over 6 billion euros in dividends, buybacks on solid 2024 start By Jesús Aguado MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s Sant..