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3 weeks ago | 
today.westlaw.com | Raphael Satter |William Mallard |Hugh Lawson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's purges and apparent acts of retribution aimed at top cyber officials put the nation's digital defenses at risk, a former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said in a post...
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3 weeks ago | 
today.westlaw.com | Karen Sloan |Leigh Jones |Hugh Lawson
(Reuters) - The American Bar Association sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday, claiming it illegally terminated federal grants in retaliation for the lawyer organization's public criticism of the Trump administration.
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1 month ago | 
gurutrade.com | Benoit Van Overstraeten |Hugh Lawson
PARIS, April 3 (Reuters) - France's dominant services sector contracted for the seventh consecutive month in March, marking its weakest quarterly performance since the fourth quarter of 2023, S&P Global reported on Thursday.
The HCOB France services PMI rose to 47.9 in March from 45.3 in February, indicating a slowdown in the contraction rate. Readings above 50.0 point to growth.
March's flash services PMI stood at of 46.6 points.
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1 month ago | 
gurutrade.com | Jonathan Cable |Hugh Lawson
LONDON, April 1 (Reuters) - The euro zone's long-suffering manufacturing industry showed initial signs of a meaningful recovery last month as output rose for the first time in two years, a survey showed on Tuesday, but the upswing could be hurt by U.S. trade tariffs.
HCOB's final euro zone manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index, compiled by S&P Global, bounced to 48.6 in March, just below a preliminary estimate for 48.7 but much closer to the 50 mark separating growth from contraction.
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1 month ago | 
gurutrade.com | Sudip Kar-Gupta |Hugh Lawson
PARIS, April 1 (Reuters) - The downturn in French manufacturing eased in March, a survey showed on Tuesday, although the outlook for the sector remains weak due to political uncertainty and weak orders.
The HCOB final purchasing managers index (PMI) for the French manufacturing sector, as compiled by S&P Global, stood at 48.5 points in March.
That marked a rise from 45.8 points in February and represented its highest level in 26 months.
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1 month ago | 
gurutrade.com | Jason Hovet |Hugh Lawson
PRAGUE, April 1 (Reuters) - The contraction in Czech manufacturing eased in March, creeping closer to levels showing stabilisation as falls in output and orders slowed, the S&P Global Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) showed on Tuesday.
Headline PMI rose to 48.3 in March from 47.7 in February, staying below the 50 mark that divides expansion from contraction.
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1 month ago | 
mining.com | Eric Onstad |Hugh Lawson
Intercontinental Exchange plans to launch derivatives in battery metals nickel, cobalt and lithium spodumene in London later this year, an executive said on Tuesday. “Our customer base is looking to us to provide products to hedge. Our role is to make sure there’s a broad product suite,” Chris Rhodes, president of ICE Futures Europe, told the FT Global Commodities Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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1 month ago | 
cp24.com | Stoyan Nenov |Angeliki Koutantou |Hugh Lawson
VITOSHA MOUNTAIN, Bulgaria - Blind Bulgarian ultramarathon runner Victor Asenov defied sleeplessness and exhaustion to repeatedly scale Vitosha mountain near Sofia non-stop for nearly two days last week, climbing the equivalent of the height of Mount Everest in one of the toughest challenges of its kind in the world.
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2 months ago | 
gurutrade.com | Graham Fahy |Hugh Lawson
DUBLIN, March 5 (Reuters) - Growth in Ireland's services sector eased slightly in February, with both total activity and new business expanding at the weakest rate for more than a year, a survey showed on Wednesday.
The AIB Global S&P Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) fell to 53.2 from 53.4 in January. The index has been above the 50 mark that separates growth from contraction since March 2021 but has slipped since recording a 19-month high of 58.3 in November.
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2 months ago | 
today.westlaw.com | Alan Charlish |Sharon Singleton |Pawel Florkiewicz |Hugh Lawson
WARSAW (Reuters) - Lech Walesa, the former Polish president and Solidarity trade union leader who played a leading role in the fall of Communism, signed a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump expressing "horror" at his argument with Ukraine's...
