Alex Richardson

1 month ago | gurutrade.com | Stefano Rebaudo |Alex Richardson

May 16 (Reuters) - Sterling was on track for its fifth straight weekly rise against the euro on Friday, while hovering near its highest levels since early April. President Donald Trump's April 2 announcement of aggressive trade duties triggered a sharp but brief selloff in U.S. assets in the following days, supporting the single currency. The greenback fell on Friday, tracking U.S. Treasury yields, but was set for its fourth weekly rise versus the euro.

2 months ago | gurutrade.com | Sfundo Parakozov |Wendell Roelf |Alexander Winning |Alex Richardson

JOHANNESBURG, April 8 (Reuters) - South Africa's rand strengthened in early trade on Tuesday, recovering some of the ground it lost a day earlier, with the future of the country's multi-party government the main focus. At 0706 GMT, the rand traded at 19.44 against the dollar , 1% firmer on the day after falling about 2.7% on Monday.

2 months ago | insideretail.asia | Kantaro Komiya |Alex Richardson |Anil Prabha

Japan’s fast-food chain Sukiya will shut nearly all of its roughly 2000 stores nationwide for four days from Monday following recent incidents of customers finding a rodent in a bowl of miso soup and a bug in another meal, it said on its website on Saturday. Sukiya, the country’s biggest beef bowl chain owned by dining giant Zensho Holdings, last weekend apologised that miso soup served at one of its locations in western Japan in January had contained a rat.

Feb 28, 2025 | gurutrade.com | Rachel More |Kirsti Knolle |Alex Richardson

BERLIN, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The number of people out of work in Germany rose in February at a slower rate than expected, data showed on Friday, but the federal labour office warned that economic malaise was still putting pressure on the job market. The office said the number of people unemployed increased by 5,000, in seasonally adjusted terms, to 2.89 million. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected that figure to rise by 15,000.

Feb 4, 2025 | industryweek.com | Brad Holden |Alex Richardson

The challenge for smaller companies, those under $1 billion in sales, is a simpler business structure limiting ownership’s ability to test executives with different products, production, or market-facing challenges. Therefore, the path for succession planning is not well-honed or disciplined. In 2023, 57% of new S&P 1500 CEOs were promoted from COO or president roles, a jump from 43% in 2022, according to a report from Spencer Stuart.