LIMA (Reuters) -Police used tear gas to disperse protesters trying to approach Peru’s Congress headquarters on Wednesday, as thousands took to the streets two weeks after a wave of deadly protests over the ousting of former President Pedro Castillo. By early evening, there were no reports of clashes with police, who closed off access to …
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By Leika Kihara and Takahiko Wada TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan is putting more emphasis on an inflation gauge that excludes fuel costs, and will likely raise its projections for the index’s growth in quarterly forecasts due this month, said three sources familiar with its thinking. The upgrade would underscore the central bank’s …
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By Melanie Burton MELBOURNE (Reuters) – International investors with $2.2 trillion in assets will ask commodity giant Glencore Plc to show how its development of thermal coal mines meets the goals of the Paris climate accord to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees. Glencore is one of the world’s largest producers and traders of the …
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By Mei Mei Chu KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s palm oil inventories at end-December likely shrank to the lowest in four months as production and exports slowed, a Reuters survey showed on Thursday. Stockpiles fell 5.3% from the month before to 2.17 million tonnes, the lowest since August, according to the median estimate of nine …
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(Reuters) – Eight people including five minors were found dead of gunshot wounds on Wednesday at a home in Enoch, Utah, city officials said in a press release. Police summoned to the home for a welfare check found the bodies of three adults and five minors, the statement said. “Each appeared to have sustained gunshot …
By Sharon Bernstein and Steve Gorman SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) -Emergency crews braced for the latest bout of high winds and torrential rains sweeping California on Wednesday, renewing the threat of power outages and deadly flooding that gripped parts of San Francisco Bay and Sacramento over New Year’s weekend. The “atmospheric river” – an airborne current …
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By Neil Jerome Morales and Enrico Dela Cruz MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine annual inflation in December accelerated to the fastest pace since 2008 on higher food and energy prices, data showed on Thursday, supporting expectations of more interest rate hikes by the central bank this year. Last month’s inflation figure was slightly below the 8.2% …
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By Sabrina Valle (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp on Wednesday signaled another strong operational profit of about $15.4 billion in its fourth quarter, pushing it toward a record take for all of 2022. The largest U.S. oil producer indicated in a securities filing a cooling from its massive profits from the prior quarters. But preliminary …
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By Scott Murdoch SYDNEY (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s government has raised $5.8 billion in dollar, euro and offshore yuan green bonds, according to term sheets reviewed by Reuters on Thursday, with investor demand stronger than expected. There was $3 billion raised in four dollar tranches of 3-, 5- 10- and 30-years, the term sheets showed. …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Hong Kong residents have swamped clinics to get vaccinated against COVID-19 ahead of the expected reopening of the city’s border with mainland China, which some people fear will bring a surge of infections to the financial hub. City government centres providing shots produced by BioNTech have in recent days been mostly …
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