(Reuters) -Britain will think very carefully about retaliating if U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration hits the country with fresh tariffs, the country’s business and trade minister Jonathan Reynolds told the FT in an interview published on Friday. Trump has floated blanket tariffs of 10% 20% on virtually all imports when he returns to the …
ZURICH (Reuters) – Holcim will list shares in its North American business on the SIX Swiss stock exchange in addition to the planned New York flotation when it is spun off to shareholders next year, the Swiss building materials maker said on Friday. Holcim announced in January it was spinning off 100% of its North …
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A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Stella Qiu Risk sentiment took a hit in Asia on Friday from renewed political rumblings in South Korea, rattling investors’ nerves as they awaited a crucial U.S. nonfarm payrolls report that could alter the odds of a Federal Reserve rate cut this month. …
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By Mike Spector, Allison Lampert and David Shepardson (Reuters) -A U.S. judge on Thursday rejected Boeing’s agreement to plead guilty to fraud in the wake of two fatal 737 MAX crashes, faulting a diversity and inclusion provision in the deal. Boeing did not immediately comment. The U.S. Department of Justice, which brokered the plea bargain …
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(Reuters) – Work will continue on the BRICS settlement system despite U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to impose 100% import duties on countries that try to undermine the dollar, the RIA news agency cited a senior Russian official as saying on Friday. Trump last week demanded that BRICS member countries commit to not creating a …
By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) – Almost every night since pro-EU protests erupted in Georgia last week, young husband-and-wife duo Mamuka Matkava and Gogona Parkaia have been working flat out to feed their fellow demonstrators. Each night the couple, one a musician and the other an artist, spend three to four hours cooking dozens of …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italy believes there are no conditions for signing off on a trade deal between the European Union and South America’s Mercosur bloc, officials from Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s office said on Thursday. Rome’s government believes that signature can only take place on condition of adequate safeguards and compensation. European Commission President Ursula …
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By Amina Niasse and Manas Mishra NEW YORK (Reuters) – Health insurance companies are reassessing the risks for their top executives after the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday in Manhattan, with both UnitedHealth and rival CVS Health removing photos of their leadership teams from their websites after the shooting. UnitedHealthcare, part of …
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By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Timour Azhari AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) -Syrian rebels captured the city of Hama on Thursday, a major victory in a week-old lightning advance across northern Syria and a devastating new blow to President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies. After years locked behind frozen frontlines, the rebels have burst forth to …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin cancelled the option for buyers of Russian gas to convert currency into roubles at Gazprombank, a presidential decree showed on Thursday, complicating the payments process as buyers must now convert their currency elsewhere. U.S. sanctions on Gazprombank imposed last month mean Gazprombank cannot handle any new energy-related transactions that …
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