(Reuters) -India’s fuel consumption jumped to a record high in March, data showed on Monday, fuelled by robust economic activity in the world’s third biggest oil consumer. Consumption of fuel, a proxy for oil demand, rose by 5% from a year earlier to 4.83 million barrels per day (20.5 million tonnes), the highest recorded in …
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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – A 23-year-old bank employee armed with a rifle shot dead five colleagues and wounded nine other people at his workplace in Louisville on Monday while livestreaming the attack on social media, police said. The gunman was fatally shot at the scene, Louisville police said. It was unclear whether he was …
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By Marwa Rashad and Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) -Europe has not made enough progress in locking in long-term contracts for liquefied natural gas (LNG) as an alternative to Russian pipeline supply, which may prove costly next winter as a rebound in Chinese demand could sharply tighten the market. Buying LNG to replace curtailed Russian flows …
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(Reuters) – In a further attempt to rein in the increasing number of women defying Iran’s compulsory dress code, authorities are installing cameras in public places and thoroughfares to identify and penalise unveiled women, the police announced on Saturday. After they have been identified, violators will receive “warning text messages as to the consequences”, police …
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(Reuters) – The Good Friday Agreement largely ended the “Troubles”, three decades of violence that had racked Northern Ireland since the late 1960s. It was signed on April 10, 1998 – which fell that year on Good Friday in the Christian Easter holiday. WHAT WERE THE ‘TROUBLES’? After the partition of Ireland in the 1920s, …
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By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stock indexes clawed back from steep losses to a mixed close on Monday as investors digested Friday’s employment report and prepared for an eventful week of inflation data and bank earnings. Megacap momentum stocks dragged the tech-heavy Nasdaq slightly lower, while industrials helped boost the blue-chip Dow …
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By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. stocks closed mostly flat and the dollar rose on Monday after strong jobs data last week pointed to the Federal Reserve hiking interest rates in May, while the yen eased after Japan’s new central bank governor vowed to maintain ultra-loose policy. Gold prices slipped below the key $2,000 …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Sunday she wants Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be impeached and his advisers probed after a media report described luxury trips he has taken over decades, funded by a Republican donor. “It is the House’s responsibility to pursue that investigation in …
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By Karen Brettell NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar firmed on Monday after Friday’s solid jobs report boosted expectations for a U.S. interest rate hike in May, while the yen weakened as new Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda signaled no hurry to dial back its massive stimulus. U.S. employers hired at a strong pace …
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By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) -Oil prices settled lower on Monday, after rising for three straight weeks, as concern about further interest rate hikes that could curb demand balanced the prospect of a tighter market due to supply cuts from OPEC+ producers. The U.S. dollar rose after U.S. jobs data pointed to a tight labor market, …
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