Author Archives: Syndicated Content
S&P 500 index seen climbing 5% by end of 2023: Reuters poll
By Sinad Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street's benchmark S&P 500 index is expected to advance about 5% from Tuesday's close by year-end although high interest rates and inflation have many strategi...
Feb 22, 2023
France eyes ‘unprecedented’ water curbs after driest winter since 1959
By Marine Strauss PARIS (Reuters) - France is preparing to introduce restrictions on water use in parts of the country from March, in an unprecedented move for the time of year following the driest wi...
Feb 22, 2023
U.S. mortgage interest rates jump to highest level since November – MBA
(Reuters) - The average interest rate on the most popular U.S. home loan rose last week to its highest since November as bond markets took fright that the Federal Reserve might have to continue tighte...
Feb 22, 2023
Death toll from Brazil downpours rises to 48
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The death toll from heavy rains that devastated coastal areas of Brazil's southeastern Sao Paulo state reached 48 people on Wednesday, official figures showed, climbing from 46 c...
Feb 22, 2023
Schoolteacher stabbed to death by pupil in southwest France
PARIS (Reuters) -A teacher was stabbed to death by a 16-year-old pupil on Wednesday at a Roman Catholic high school in the town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz in southwestern France, local officials said. Pupil...
Feb 22, 2023
EU antitrust regulators to decide on Google’s maths app buy by March 28
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU antitrust regulators have set a March 28 deadline for their decision on Alphabet unit Google's acquisition of Croatian maths app Photomath, according to a European Commission f...
Feb 22, 2023
Eyes on Israel central bank as judicial push keeps shekel tumbling vs dollar
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's shekel fell 1.5% versus the dollar on Wednesday amid a plan to overhaul the country's judiciary, continuing a rapid decline that could prompt central ba...
Feb 22, 2023
Ukraine wants one-year grain deal extension to include new ports
By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine will ask Turkey and the United Nations this week to start talks to roll over the Black Sea grain deal, seeking an extension of at least one year that would i...
Feb 22, 2023
Accused Colorado LGBTQ club shooter back in court for preliminary hearing
By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - The individual accused of fatally shooting five people inside a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub last year was due in court on Wednesday for a preliminary hearing in which ...
Feb 22, 2023
Blackstone’s Ike leaves to start new investment firm
By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK (Reuters) - Melvin Ike, a managing director in Blackstone Inc's tactical opportunities group, has resigned to start his own investment firm, the private equity firm told Reut...
Feb 22, 2023
