By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) -Oil prices settled higher on Friday but posted their fourth straight quarterly loss as investors worried that sluggish global economic activity could crimp fuel demand. Be[...]
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Cyanide maker Draslovka mulls equity raise to drive new mining technology
By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE (Reuters) – Cyanide maker Draslovka is considering an equity fundraising worth hundreds of millions of dollars support the roll out of new technology that could help miners[...]
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European shares crawl higher in Q2
By Amruta Khandekar, Matteo Allievi and Bansari Mayur Kamdar (Reuters) – European shares rose on Friday as lacklustre data on China’s factory activity spurred hopes of more policy stimulus[...]
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Ferragamo’s CFO Alessandro Corsi resigns
MILAN (Reuters) – Italian luxury group Salvatore Ferragamo said on Friday that its Chief Financial Officer Alessandro Corsi would resign with effect from Sept.30 to take on “a new professi[...]
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UK regulator may refer Adobe’s $20 billion Figma deal to deeper probe
(Reuters) -Britain’s competition regulator said on Friday that Photoshop owner Adobe’s $20 billion buyout of cloud-based designer platform Figma may be referred to a deeper investigation a[...]
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As the Libor era ends, market participants hope for ‘crickets’
By John McCrank and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) – The last rates based on the tarnished London Interbank Offer Rate, or Libor, were published on Friday, marking a mostly quiet en[...]
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HSBC blocking of Hong Konger pensions matter of ‘deep concern’, say US, UK lawmakers
LONDON (Reuters) – Two influential lawmakers in the United States and Britain accused HSBC on Friday of contributing to the oppression of people in Hong Kong by thwarting their attempts to acces[...]
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EU Commission demands Uniper dispose of Dutch business – Handelsblatt
BRUSSELS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Commission has demanded that German gas importer Uniper divest its Dutch business to obtain regulatory approval for a rescue deal, German daily Handel[...]
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Consumers, food-makers face choice as WHO cancer agency set to warn on aspartame sweeteners (June 29)
(Corrects June 29 story to remove reference to aspartame in Weight Watchers yoghurts in paragraph 6) By Richa Naidu and Savyata Mishra LONDON (Reuters) -Consumers, food companies, retailers and restau[...]
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