DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – European Union leaders are unlikely to strike a deal on an oil embargo against Russia at their summit on Monday and Tuesday, head of the blocs executive Ursula von der Leyen said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Fed‘s holdings of Treasury bonds and mortgage backed securities is projected to decline by roughly $2.5 trillion by mid-2025 to roughly $5.9 trillion, when the central bank’s run-off of assets is likely to be halted to maintain an adequate level of bank
By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) – A group of Peruvian indigenous communities that have been protesting MMG Ltds huge Las Bambas copper mine will meet with President Pedro Castillo on Tuesday in Lima in a new bid to defuse the crisis, a community leader told Reuters.
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sales of new U.S. single-family homes tumbled to a two-year low in April likely as higher mortgage rates and soaring prices squeezed first-time buyers and those in search of entry-level properties out of the housing market.
By Pavel Polityuk and Silvia Aloisi KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine is seeking ways to get grain and vegetable oils out of the country by breaking a months-long blockade of the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea by the Russian navy and moving more by land.
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lankas new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Tuesday he will present an interim budget within six weeks, slashing down on infrastructure projects and re-routing funds into a two-year relief programme for the crisis-hit island nation.
By Dmitry Zhdannikov DAVOS (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia is finalising the extension of the kingdoms $3 billion deposit to Pakistan, Saudi Minister of Finance Mohammed al-Jadaan told Reuters.
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – The EU‘s proposed new sanctions including an oil embargo against Russia should not be discussed at next week’s summit of EU leaders, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban wrote to the President of the European Council in a letter.
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Relocating clearing of euro derivatives from London must find a “workable balance” that avoids business going to the United States or elsewhere rather than the European Union, the blocs securities watchdog said on Tuesday.
(Reuters) – The number of births in the United States grew 1% in 2021 from a pandemic-related low in 2020, marking the first increase since 2014, according to a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia does not expect an immediate shortage of oil and only a certain shortage of oil products, the countrys foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said on Tuesday when asked why Riyadh has rebuffed U.S. calls to raise production.
By Sabine Siebold DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday called for talks with Moscow on unlocking wheat exports that are trapped in Ukraine as a result of a Russian sea blockade.
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A California state judge has rejected Tesla Inc‘s bid to send a lawsuit alleging widespread sexual harassment at the company’s flagship assembly plant to private arbitration, allowing it to move forward in court.
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. bank profits dropped 6.5% in the first quarter of 2022 to $59.7 billion, as larger firms grew their loan loss provisions in response to heightened economic and geopolitical uncertainty, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation reported Tuesday.
DUBAI (Reuters) – Iraqi Kurdish Prime Minister Masrour Barzani said on Tuesday that the semi-autonomous region rejected a federal court ruling on its oil and gas activities as “political” and not constitutional.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators are set to approve without conditions U.S. business software maker Oracle Corps $28.3 billion acquisition of U.S. healthcare IT company Cerner Corp, people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
By Caroline Pailliez OTTMARSHEIM, France (Reuters) – When its employees started leaving in droves for better-paying jobs across the border in Switzerland, family-run French window maker Fligitter knew it needed to do something to retain staff.
MILAN (Reuters) – Italy‘s Exor has appointed Hermes CEO Axel Dumas as a non-executive board member, the Agnelli family’s holding company said on Tuesday, in a move marking its latest step in the luxury space.
By Francesco Guarascio and Jan Strupczewski
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. business activity slowed moderately in May as higher prices cooled demand for services while renewed supply constraints because of COVID-19 lockdowns in China and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine hampered production at factories.