Stocks gain as European shares hit new highs, dollar slips
By Herbert Lash and Marc Jones NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – World stocks edged higher on Thursday, helped by surging European sto..
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Europe’s rush for rate cuts shifts global market power away from US
By Naomi Rovnick and Yoruk Bahceli LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England has sent a new signal that borrowing costs will fall e..
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Telefonica tops forecast with 79% surge in Q1 profit
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s Telefonica beat forecasts with a 79% surge in first-quarter net profit on Thursday as higher fe..
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Brembo Q1 operating profit rises on record sales
(Reuters) – Italian premium brake maker Brembo posted on Thursday an 8.5% yearly increase in first-quarter operating profit as r..
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Stocks stall near record highs, pound poised for BoE
LONDON (Reuters) – World stocks were taking a well-earned breather on Thursday after a strong few weeks and ahead of a Bank of E..
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Spain’s BBVA turns hostile with $13 billion takeover bid for Sabadell
By Jesús Aguado MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish bank BBVA presented a 12.23 billion euro ($13.11 billion) takeover offer for rival Sabadell ..
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ITV forecasts 12% jump in Q2 ad revenue on Euros demand
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s ITV said its advertising revenue would jump by around 12% in the second quarter, four times t..
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TIM CEO sees potential benefits of almost 5 billion euros from new business plan – paper
ROME (Reuters) – The CEO of Telecom Italia (TIM) said in an interview on Thursday he sees potential additional benefits of almos..
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Platinum set for biggest deficit in a decade in 2024, says Johnson Matthey
By Brijesh Patel (Reuters) – The platinum market faces its largest supply shortfall in 10 years in 2024 as shipments from Russia..
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FTSE 100 hits record high, pound slips ahead of BoE verdict
By Pranav Kashyap, Shubham Batra and Khushi Singh (Reuters) -The UK’s FTSE 100 benchmark stock index scaled new highs on Wednesd..
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Puma upbeat on growing demand, shares jump
By Linda Pasquini and Helen Reid (Reuters) -A return to growth in the Americas helped Puma meet first-quarter sales forecasts and its ..
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Uber shares tumble as weaker ride-share demand hurts Q2 forecast
By Yuvraj Malik (Reuters) -Uber posted a surprise quarterly loss and forecast gross bookings below Wall Street expectations, sending i..
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Oil prices rise after US crude stocks fall more than expected
By Nicole Jao NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices edged higher on Wednesday after U.S. oil storage data showed a larger-than-expected draw ..
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Olympics-Flame arrives in Marseille amid tight security
By Clotaire Achi and Julien Pretot MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) – The Olympic flame landed on French soil amid tight security on ..
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UK tells tech firms to ‘tame algorithms’ to protect children
By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and TikTok will have to “tame” the..
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British pub group JD Wetherspoon expects profit at upper end of market forecast
(Reuters) – British pub group J D Wetherspoon on Wednesday forecast its profit to be towards the upper end of market expectation..
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Alstom to ask shareholders for $1 billion in rights issue to slash debt
(Reuters) – French train maker Alstom on Wednesday said it would ask shareholders for around 1 billion euros ($1 billion) throug..
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Munich Re Q1 net profit up 68%, in line with preliminary figures
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The German reinsurer Munich Re on Wednesday posted a 68% rise in the first quarter net profit, a level tha..
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Exclusive-Amazon breaks into Europe 5G networks with Telefonica cloud deal
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Telefonica Germany will move one million 5G customers to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud later this month,..
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Stocks rally anew on US rate cut hopes; dollar steady
NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -Global shares traded close to one-month highs on Tuesday, boosted by revived optimism that the Federal Rese..
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Meta to expand AI image generation offerings for ads
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said on Tuesday it was expanding its suite of..
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UK’s FTSE 100 notches record closing high in broad rally
(Reuters) -The UK’s FTSE 100 notched a record closing high on Tuesday in a broad rally as traders returned from a long weekend t..
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Race for Europe’s first ‘real-time’ stock trade tape heats up
LONDON (Reuters) – Banks and asset managers are vying with Europe’s exchanges to develop technology that can deepen the pool o..
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US dollar edges lower but up against yen, Aussie
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar slipped on Tuesday but strengthened against the Japanese yen as expectations of large inter..
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Apple unveils new AI-focused chip in upgraded iPad Pro
By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) -Apple unveiled its latest iPad Pro on Tuesday with a new chip for artificial intelligence computing as..
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‘Livestream’ shopping thwarts some high-tech tools to stop fake merch
By Arriana McLymore NEW YORK (Reuters) – Livestream shopping where buyers and sellers transact in real-time video is growing in ..
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UK construction growth hits 14-month high in April, PMI survey shows
(Reuters) – British construction companies enjoyed their fastest expansion in more than a year during April, despite a further d..
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UBS shares soar as profit smashes forecasts, share buyback plans affirmed
By Noele Illien ZURICH (Reuters) – UBS on Tuesday reported first-quarter profit that trounced forecasts and said it was sticking..
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Saudi Aramco maintains $31 billion dividend despite lower Q1 net income
By Hadeel Al Sayegh DUBAI (Reuters) -Saudi Arabian state-owned oil giant Aramco expects to pay $31 billion in dividends to the Saudi g..
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People with two copies of a risk gene have genetic form of Alzheimer’s, scientists say
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) -People who carry two copies of the APOE4 gene are virtually guaranteed to develop Alzheimer..
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European shares close at highest in a week; Indra surges
By Ankika Biswas and Johann M Cherian (Reuters) -European shares closed at their highest levels in one week on Monday, with investor o..
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Microsoft readies new AI model to compete with Google, OpenAI, The Information reports
(Reuters) -Microsoft is training a new, in-house AI language model large enough to compete with those from Alphabet’s Google and..
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Dollar weaker on renewed Fed rate cut hopes; yen wobbles
By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) -The dollar index was lower on Monday for a fourth straight session as a softer-than-expected ..
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Global shares gain on rate cut bets; yen weakens
By Herbert Lash and Nell Mackenzie NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -A gauge of global stock markets rose on Monday on optimism that major ce..
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ECB grows more confident about cutting rates, policymakers say
By Balazs Koranyi and Francesco Canepa VILNIUS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) -The European Central Bank is growing more confident about cutting ..
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Swedish central bank to cut key rate this week, Reuters poll shows
By Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s central bank will cut its key interest rate this week by a quarter percent..
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Swiss National Bank exploring ways to tokenise financial assets
ZURICH (Reuters) – The Swiss National Bank is examining the best way that financial assets can be digitally tokenised as a way o..
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