By Mathieu Rosemain and Matthieu Protard PARIS (Reuters) -BNP Paribas’s first-quarter sales beat market expectations as trading business at the eurozone’s biggest bank outperformed most of[...]
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May 3, 2023
Analysis-Investors see big Novo Nordisk stock boost if obesity drug shows heart benefit
By Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) – Positive trial data showing Novo Nordisk’s obesity drug helps save and extend lives, not just lose weight, could propel Europe’s best-performing stock eve[...]
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Analysis-From tea to ketchup, some shelves lie empty as retailers struggle to predict demand
By Richa Naidu and Helen Reid LONDON/BARCELONA (Reuters) – A “salad crisis” affecting British supermarkets hit headlines earlier this year but shoppers across Europe and the Middle E[...]
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Lufthansa sees earnings boost from strong summer travel
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -German airline group Deutsche Lufthansa said it expected strong demand for holiday travel this summer to fill seats on its planes and help it reach its full-year targets. “T[...]
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Analysis-Banking mess, Fed among worries threatening calm stretch in US stocks
By Lewis Krauskopf, Saqib Iqbal Ahmed and Laura Matthews NEW YORK (Reuters) – The calm that has prevailed in the U.S. equity market may be starting to snap, as a range of worries bolster the cas[...]
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Australia central bank surprised by rapid recovery in population growth -official
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s central bank said on Wednesday that a rapid recovery in population growth was a big surprise for the bank’s economic forecasts, pushing up rents and le[...]
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Marketmind: Deja vu for Powell, as bank and debt fears revive
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee For the second time this year, Fed Chair Jerome Powell will take the stage in the wake of a bank failure (that’s three[...]
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U.S. SEC to vote on boosting disclosures by private funds, hedge funds
(This May 2 story has been corrected to attribute 2022 SEC proposal following post-publication review in paragraphs 6 and 7) By John McCrank (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commissi[...]
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Japan, S.Korea revive stalled economic talks as global risks rise
By Leika Kihara and Jihoon Lee INCHEON, South Korea (Reuters) -Japan and South Korea held their first finance leaders’ meeting in seven years on Tuesday and agreed to resume regular dialogue as[...]
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