(Reuters) -PepsiCo Inc beat analysts’ estimates for quarterly revenue by more than $1 billion on Thursday, helped by higher prices and robust demand for its snacks and sodas. The company’s shares rose 1.4% in premarket trading, even as it forecast full-year earnings below estimates, signaling the impact from runaway cost inflation. PepsiCo, which raised prices…
PARIS (Reuters) -Shares in the world’s largest cosmetics company L’Oreal dropped on Thursday as higher marketing spending put pressure on profitability, overshadowing forecast-beating sales and gains in market share. The company’s spending on advertising and promotions, closely watched by investors, grew over the second half of the year. That weighed on the annual operating margin…
GENEVA (AP) — Credit Suisse on Thursday reported a fourth-quarter loss of 2 billion Swiss francs ($2.2 billion) as the top-drawer Swiss bank wrapped up “a year of challenges” marked by bad bets on a hedge fund, set asides for legal costs and accounting changes due to its acquisition of a U.S. investment bank over…
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Germany Siemens AG, global maker of big-ticket machines and industrial equipment and software, saw net profit rise 20% to 1.8 billion euros in the last three months of 2021 as the rebounding global economy increased orders for its goods, including a 1-billion euro order for high speed trains in Germany. The…
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union is seeing its economic emergence from the unprecedented COVID-19 slowdown hampered by coronavirus-induced staff shortages, supply bottlenecks, runaway energy prices and subsequent inflation surges. In its winter 2022 forecast, the European Commission said Thursday that even though the economy has rebounded from stunning losses at the height of the…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) on Thursday said Alphabet’s Google had breached antitrust law related to suspending and blocking accounts on YouTube. Google is waiting for the FAS’ full decision in order to review it, the TASS news agency reported. Google did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. (Reporting…
By Tommy Wilkes LONDON (Reuters) – The rebound in share prices took a pause on Thursday as investors geared up for crucial a U.S. inflation report that should offer new clues on the pace of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes. European stocks were mostly higher or unchanged on the day, while U.S. futures pointed to…
MOSCOW (AP) — Britain’s top diplomat urged Russia on Thursday to defuse tensions over Ukraine and take the path of diplomacy even as thousands of Russian troops engaged in sweeping maneuvers in Belarus as part of a military buildup near Ukraine that has fueled Western fears of an invasion. U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss again…
LONDON (AP) — AstraZeneca recorded a big jump in revenue on Thursday as it begins to take a profit from its coronavirus vaccine for the first time. The company recorded full-year revenues of $37.4 billion, an increase of 38% from the year before at constant exchange rates. Part of the boost came from $4 billion…
By Noah Browning LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices rose on Thursday after rallying on an unexpected drop in U.S. crude inventories in the previous session, as investors awaited the outcome of U.S.-Iran nuclear talks that could add crude supplies quickly to global markets. Brent crude futures rose 34 cents, or 0.4%, to $91.89 a barrel at…
