Author Archives: Syndicated Content
UK retail sales fall unexpectedly in September
By David Milliken and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) -British retail sales dropped by 0.2% September, official figures showed on Friday, adding to signs of weakness in the recovery from COVID-19 and buck...
Oct 22, 2021
Sainsbury’s ends talks on selling banking operation
LONDON (Reuters) - British supermarket Sainsbury's said on Friday it had ended talks about selling its banking operation after concluding that approaches it first received in November 2020 did not off...
Oct 22, 2021
Tissue maker Essity’s profit grows more than expected on increasing hygiene awareness
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Hygiene products maker Essity reported a higher-than-expected rise in quarterly profit on Friday, thanks to better market conditions and growing awareness of the importance of hy...
Oct 22, 2021
Electrified cars hit almost a fifth of EU Q3 vehicle sales
By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly one in five vehicles sold in the European Union in the third quarter was an electrified model as sales continued to soar while fossil-fuel cars slumped, accordi...
Oct 22, 2021
Factbox – Latest on the worldwide spread of the coronavirus
(Reuters) - Melbourne residents flocked to the city's pubs, restaurants and hair salons in the early hours of Friday after the world's most locked-down city emerged from its latest spate of restrictio...
Oct 22, 2021
APEC finance ministers agree to step up vaccine efforts
(Reuters) - Finance ministers from the Asia-Pacific trade group APEC met on Friday and agreed to step up efforts to expand vaccine manufacture and supply, and support global vaccine sharing, the host ...
Oct 22, 2021
Remy Q2 sales beat forecasts, eyes “exceptional” H1 profit growth
PARIS (Reuters) - Remy Cointreau said it would deliver "exceptional" current operating growth in the first half of its 2021/2022 fiscal year after its sales rose by a stronger-than-expected 23.7% in t...
Oct 22, 2021
Renault says chip crunch will lower production more than forecast
LONDON (Reuters) - French carmaker Renault said on Friday its production losses in 2021 because of a global semiconductor chip shortage would be far larger than previously forecast, but maintained its...
Oct 22, 2021
China coal prices dive as govt plans intervention to ease power crunch
By Shivani Singh BEIJING (Reuters) -China's thermal coal futures sank about 13% on Friday, extending their losses since Tuesday when Beijing said it would intervene to cool surging prices https://www....
Oct 22, 2021
Canada oil producers grapple with Trudeau’s demand for faster emissions cuts
By Rod Nickel WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - Canada's oil producers face new pressure from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to reduce emissions in just three years, a sudden acceleration of their plans t...
Oct 22, 2021
