Ros Russell

London

Global Desk Editor at Reuters

Global News Desk Editor @Reuters 🌍 Author of ‘The End of Where We Begin’ & ‘Burma’s Spring’ 📚Winner of the 2021 Moore Prize ✍️

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Articles

Oil price outlook weakens on OPEC+ hikes, lingering trade concerns: poll

1 week ago | cp24.com | Sarah Qureshi |Kavya Balaraman |Ros Russell

Analysts have revised down their oil price forecasts for the third consecutive month as swelling OPEC+ supply and lingering uncertainty around the impact of trade disputes on fuel demand weigh on prices, a Reuters poll showed. A survey of 40 economists and analysts in May forecasts Brent crude will average US$66.98 per barrel in 2025, down from April's $68.98 forecast, while U.S. crude is seen at $63.35, below last month's $65.08 estimate.
Plummeting US Core Capital Goods Orders Point to Weak Business Spending

1 week ago | gurutrade.com | Lucia Mutikani |Ros Russell |Andrea Ricci

Core capital goods orders dive 1.3% in April Shipments of core capital goods dip 0.1% Durable goods orders decline 6.3% WASHINGTON, May 27 (Reuters) - New orders for key U.S.-manufactured capital goods plunged in April amid mounting uncertainty over the economy because of tariffs, suggesting business spending on equipment weakened at the start of the second quarter. The report from the Commerce Department on Tuesday also showed shipments of these goods falling last month.
WHO members adopt global pandemic accord, but US absence casts doubts

2 weeks ago | today.westlaw.com | Rachel More |Jan Lopatka |Ros Russell |Alex Richardson

GENEVA (Reuters) -Members of the World Health Organization adopted an agreement on Tuesday intended to improve preparedness for future pandemics following the disjointed global response to COVID-19, but the absence of the U.S. cast doubt on the...
UK strikes EU trade and defence reset in 'new era' for relations

2 weeks ago | today.westlaw.com | Aidan Lewis |Ros Russell |Andrew Heavens |Kate Holton

LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain agreed the most significant reset of defence and trade ties with the European Union since Brexit on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump's upending of the global order pushed the two sides to move on from their...
Trump wraps up Gulf tour with AI and energy deals in UAE

3 weeks ago | today.westlaw.com | Ros Russell |Timothy Heritage |Michael Georgy |Nayera Abdallah

DUBAI (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Friday on his last stop on a Gulf tour focused on business deals that the United Arab Emirates and the United States had agreed a path for the Gulf country to buy advanced AI semiconductors from U.S....
Trump says US close to a nuclear deal with Iran

3 weeks ago | tbsnews.net | Nayera Abdallah |Tala Ramadan |Michael Georgy |Ros Russell

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday (15 May) that the United States was getting very close to securing a nuclear deal with Iran, and Tehran had "sort of" agreed to the terms. "We're in very serious negotiations with Iran for long-term peace," Trump said on a tour of the Gulf, according to a shared pool report by AFP. "We're getting close to maybe doing a deal without having to do this...
US customers should get Chinese rare earth permits more easily after trade truce, say sources

3 weeks ago | today.westlaw.com | Ros Russell |Lewis Jackson

BEIJING (Reuters) -Rare earth export permits for U.S. customers are likely to have an easier time getting approval from Beijing after Monday's trade war truce, however a complete removal of the restrictions is unlikely, according to two sources in...
Poisonous rumors and pink smoke

1 month ago | cp24.com | Crispian Balmer |Ros Russell

VATICAN CITY - Throughout history, there has been no shortage of outside attempts to influence the outcome of a conclave to elect a new pope, either by European monarchs, Italy's noble families or even Romans who rioted in the streets to stand by their man. Today's influencers use social media, television and newspaper interviews, news conferences, open letters, and even puffs of pink smoke.
King Charles and royals to mark Victory in Europe Day with military parade

1 month ago | cp24.com | Michael Holden |Ros Russell

LONDON - Britain's King Charles and other senior royals are due to join veterans and crowds to watch a grand military parade and flypast at the start of four days of commemorations marking the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day. The government has planned a series of events in the run-up to the anniversary of Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender that took effect on May 8, 1945. It is observed around that date in many countries, including France, the United States and Russia.
Kim Kardashian jewel heist trial starts in Paris

1 month ago | today.westlaw.com | Makini Brice |Ros Russell |Elizabeth Pineau |Richard Lough

PARIS (Reuters) -A group of men dubbed the "grandpa gang" were among ten suspects who went on trial on Monday on charges of robbing reality TV star Kim Kardashian at gunpoint and stealing jewelry worth millions of dollars during Paris Fashion Week in...