Author Archives: Syndicated Content
ABN Amro considers share buyback as Q3 profit thumps expectations
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - ABN Amro said on Wednesday it was looking to buy back its shares, as the Dutch bank reported an unexpected 14% increase in third-quarter net profit helped by economic recovery an...
Nov 10, 2021
Credit Agricole beats expectations in Q3, confirms 2022 targets
PARIS (Reuters) - Credit Agricole SA posted on Wednesday a better-than-expected third-quarter profit, supported by lower pandemic-related provisions for bad loans and higher revenue in retail banking,...
Nov 10, 2021
Fintech funding in Southeast Asia triples to record $3.5 billion this yr – report
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Financial technology (fintech) funding in Southeast Asia jumped more than three times in the first nine months of this year compared with full-year 2020, reaching a record $3.5 b...
Nov 10, 2021
China’s Iran oil purchases rebound on lower prices, fresh quotas
By Chen Aizhu and Alex Lawler SINGAPORE/LONDON (Reuters) - China's imports of Iranian oil have held above half a million barrels per day on average for the last three months, traders and ship-tracking...
Nov 10, 2021
U.N. climate agency publishes draft of final Glasgow deal
(Reuters) - The United Nations climate agency on Wednesday published a first draft of the political decision countries will issue at the end of the COP26 summit. Negotiators from nearly 200 countries ...
Nov 10, 2021
How GE’s Larry Culp split the empire Jack Welch built
By Anirban Sen and Rajesh Kumar Singh (Reuters) - It was the break-up that eluded a generation of General Electric Co insiders. When Larry Culp, the first GE chief executive not to rise from within it...
Nov 10, 2021
Is your electric car as eco-friendly as you thought?
By Victoria Waldersee and Ally Levine BERLIN (Reuters) - Electric vehicles (EVs) are a powerful weapon in the world's battle to beat global warming, yet their impact varies hugely from nation-to-natio...
Nov 10, 2021
Factbox-Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus
(Reuters) - India could resume deliveries of COVID-19 shots to global vaccine-sharing platform COVAX in a few weeks for the first time since April, while Pfizer Inc sought approval from Japan to use C...
Nov 10, 2021
World’s top shoemaker Pou Chen faces Vietnam labour shortage
HANOI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Pou Chen Corp, the world's largest manufacturer of branded sports footwear, is facing a labour shortage and manufacturing disruption in Vietnam, threatening its plan to retu...
Nov 10, 2021
Paul Rudd jokes about being named ‘sexiest man alive’ by People magazine
(Reuters) - Paul Rudd, the affable actor best known for playing "Ant-Man," was named People magazine's sexiest man alive on Wednesday, joining the likes of Idris Elba, George Clooney and Bradley Coope...
Nov 10, 2021
