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Jun 17, 2024 | 
ca.marketscreener.com | Sharon Singleton
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from MikeDolanWall Street stocks and bonds remained relatively buoyant afterlast week's action-packed macro week with world markets drawnmore to French political uncertainty and the deepening Chinesehome price bust. With trouble brewing overseas, Wall Street stock futuresheld the line close to last week's new records on Mondayas Goldman Sachs raised its 2024 year-end S&P500 targetto 5,600 from 5,200 earlier and Friday's 5,431 close.
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May 28, 2024 | 
newsfounded.com | Felix Njini |Clara Denina |Sharon Singleton
BHP and Anglo are digging in even as the deadline for takeover talks nears, sources say, The deadline for BHP to make a binding Anglo American offer is looming No new concessions are emerging in the talks, the sources said BHP wants Anglo to divest some South African assets Anglo said the proposed deal structure would be too difficult to implement By Felix Njini and Clara Denina JOHANNESBURG/LONDON, May 28 (Reuters) –BHP BHP.AX is struggling to find common ground in Anglo American AAL.L on...
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
yournews.com | Jonathan Saul |Sharon Singleton |Andrew Cawthorne
LONDON, March 7 (Reuters) – India’s navy evacuated all 20 crew from a stricken vessel in the Red Sea on Thursday, after a Houthi attack killed three seafarers in the first civilian fatalities from the Yemeni group’s campaign against the key shipping route. The Iran-aligned militants fired a missile at the Barbados-flagged, Greek-operated True Confidence on Wednesday about 50 nautical miles off the port of Aden, setting it ablaze.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
kitco.com | Ariba Shahid |Swati Bhat |Sharon Singleton
KARACHI, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Pakistan's central bank is expected to hold its key rate steady at a fourth straight policy meeting on Tuesday, with inflation forecast to start easing in coming months paving the way for rate cuts to boost the economy, analysts said.
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Dec 3, 2023 | 
pressnewsagency.org | Nilutpal Timsina |Sharon Singleton
Dec 3 (Reuters) – British International Secretary David Cameron will journey to Washington D.C. on Wednesday, Dec. 6, the UK’s International, Commonwealth & Growth Workplace (FCDO) mentioned on Sunday in his first go to to the U.S. since taking over the place final month. Cameron will undertake a programme of bilateral conferences with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in addition to meet Republican and Democratic members of Congress, the FCDO assertion mentioned.
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Nov 14, 2023 | 
shareandstocks.com | Lefteris Papadimas |Louise Heavens |Sharon Singleton
ATHENS, Nov 15 (Reuters) – Demand for a 20% stake in Greece’s National Bank (NBG) held by the country’s bank bailout fund was covered by more than six times on Tuesday, in the first day of a book-building process which ends later this week, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. “Demand covered 6.2 times the shares offered,” the source involved in the process said on condition of anonymity.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
yournews.com | Yuliia Dysa |Lidia Kelly |Sharon Singleton |Lincoln Feast
Nov 14 (Reuters) – A Ukrainian lawmaker who was formally notified this week that he was suspected of treason for allegedly cooperating with Russia’s military intelligence said on Wednesday a Kyiv court had ordered him detained for 60 days. Oleksandr Dubinsky, who is on a U.S. sanctions list, was told on Monday he was also suspected of spreading misinformation about Ukraine’s political leadership, officials said.
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
thestarnewstoday.com | Nqobile Dludla |Sharon Singleton
JOHANNESBURG, Nov 10 (Reuters) – Fashion retailer TFG (TFGJ.J) reported a 15.3% fall in half-year earnings affected by increased levels of power cuts, higher interest rates and inflation but said retail turnover growth in the second half is expected to be higher than last year. The owner of the Foschini and Markham clothing brands said headline earnings per share for the six months ended Sept.30, fell to 393.6 cents from 464.6 cents in the same period last year.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
kitco.com | John Revill |Sharon Singleton
ZURICH, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Slowing deposit withdrawals and better preparation of collateral will be crucial in handling future bank crises, said SNB vice chairman Martin Schlegel, after the biggest-ever cash injection into a bank was needed to engineer the rescue of Credit Suisse.
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
yournews.com | Kate Holton |Elizabeth Piper |Sharon Singleton
LONDON, Nov 9 (Reuters) – Britain’s government escalated its row with London’s police chief on Thursday over the handling of a pro-Palestinian march this weekend, accusing his officers of taking a softer stance towards left-wing causes. Plans for a demonstration in London on Saturday’s Armistice Day has sparked a row between government and police, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak saying he would hold the force accountable for any trouble after it said there was not enough reason to ban it.
