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1 week ago | 
gurutrade.com | Tannur Anders |Bhargav Acharya |Jamie Freed |Helen Popper
JOHANNESBURG, April 17 (Reuters) - South Africa's rand firmed on Thursday, as markets awaited clarity on U.S. tariffs and local investors looked for news on the future of the coalition government due to a lingering budget stand-off.
At 1355 GMT, the rand traded at 18.775 against the U.S. dollar , about 0.3% stronger than its previous close.
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2 months ago | 
gurutrade.com | Graham Fahy |Helen Popper
DUBLIN, Feb 20 (Reuters) - Ireland's policy of capping residential rents to slow runaway housing costs has choked the supply of properties, the country's top private landlord said on Thursday, as the government considers introducing an alternative system of reference rents.
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2 months ago | 
gurutrade.com | Tom Westbrook |Vidya Ranganathan |Helen Popper
Surge in Chinese tech stocks captures analysts' imagination
Catchy monikers rival 'Magnificent Seven' in the US
AI startup DeepSeek fuels buzz around technology companies
SINGAPORE/SHANGHAI, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Six Little Dragons, Seven Sisters and the Terrific Ten. These are some of the nicknames being bestowed on China's cast of home-grown heroes as they take on the U.S. tech goliaths, known as the Magnificent Seven.
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2 months ago | 
gurutrade.com | Wen-Yee Lee |Ben Blanchard |Helen Popper
TAIPEI, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Taiwanese electronics companies are planning more investments in the U.S. state of Texas, with announcements possible in May to coincide with President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office, the head of an industry body said on Tuesday.
Trump, who took office on Jan.
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2 months ago | 
today.westlaw.com | Kate Abnett |Simon Jessop |Helen Popper |Richa Naidu
LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The U.S. paper and pulp industry is lobbying President Donald Trump's administration to ask the EU to declare the United States deforestation-free, a step that could make it easier for exporters to meet the bloc's new...
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
today.westlaw.com | Clarence Fernandez |Joanna Plucinska |Helen Popper
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Air passengers numbers are projected to more than double by 2050, boosting fuel demand and undermining the aviation industry's efforts to cut emissions, a study by climate advocacy group Transport and Environment suggested on...
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
today.westlaw.com | Stanley Widianto |Bernadette Christina |Helen Popper
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by an Indigenous community that sought to cancel a permit for a palm oil concession on thousands of hectares of rainforest it claimed as ancestral land, legal documents showed on...
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
gurutrade.com | Christina Fincher |Helen Popper
SHANGHAI, Oct 31 (Reuters) - China's central bank has injected 500 billion yuan ($70.24 billion) into its banking system during October through a new reverse repurchase tool announced earlier this week, the bank said on Thursday.
The People's Bank of China (PBOC) said the repo operations aimed to "keep banking system liquidity reasonably ample". The tenor of the repos for the month was six months.
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
gurutrade.com | Miranda Murray |Helen Popper
Sentiment index rises more than expected
Reaches highest level since April 2022
Economic expectations register third straight fall
BERLIN, Oct 29 (Reuters) - German consumer sentiment is set to continue to recover heading into November as households are more optimistic about their income prospects, though high prices and bad job market news are diluting those positive factors, a survey showed on Tuesday.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
mining.com | Felix Njini |Helen Popper
Reuters | August 29, 2024 | 9:57 am Top Companies Africa Platinum Impala Platinum sees little prospect of new platinum mines being built in South Africa as the industry struggles with a price slump, its chief executive Nico Muller said on Thursday. Johannesburg-based Impala said projects it had halted in South Africa and Zimbabwe were unlikely to be revived due to the growing market for electric vehicles – which don’t need platinum-group catalysts in their engines.
