NEW YORK (AP) — The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will get some high-powered help this week to reach its $18 billion goal to fund another three years to slow the spread of these diseases. President Joe Biden will host The Global Fund’s Seventh Replenishment Conference, the public health partnership’s fundraising campaign,…
By Hari Kishan BENGALURU (Reuters) – The latest turmoil in major sovereign debt markets is far from over as bond strategists in a Reuters poll expected yields to stay elevated well into next year, with risks firmly skewed towards their moving higher than currently predicted. More than a decade of rock-bottom sovereign bond yields came…
(Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures fell on Tuesday as investors positioned themselves for new economic projections and another large interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve this week to quell decades-high inflation. All the three major indexes ended a choppier session higher on Monday led by gains in beaten down industrial shares and some…
BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungary needs time and is urging its European Union partners to be “tolerant,” the country’s justice minister said Tuesday, after the bloc’s executive branch recommended suspending billions of euros in funding over concerns about democratic backsliding and the possible mismanagement of EU money. Justice Minister Judit Varga said that Hungary has proposed…
BERLIN (AP) — Natural gas supplier Uniper said Tuesday that it’s in “final discussions” for Germany to nationalize the company, ramping up the government’s intervention in the gas and oil industry as Russia’s war in Ukraine provokes an energy crisis. The expansion of Uniper’s July rescue deal would feature a capital increase of 8 billion…
MILAN (AP) — Giambarini Group’s plants in northern Italy must keep zinc baths that rustproof steel and iron parts super-heated around the clock, seven days a week, an energy-intensive process that has grown exponentially more costly as natural gas prices spike. Methane to create molten zinc that forms a protective coating over high-rise support beams…
By Kane Wu and Anshuman Daga HONG KONG/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -U.S. private equity firm TPG Inc is set to reach first-close of its new Asia-focused fund at more than $3 billion, two people with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. TPG kicked off fundraising of its eighth private equity fund for the region in January,…
TURIN, Italy (Reuters) – Stellantis signed an agreement with its partner Punch Powertrain to increase production in Italy of electrified dual-clutch transmissions (eDCT) for hybrid and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, the carmaker said on Tuesday. The upgraded facility will be developed within Mirafiori, Stellantis’ main plant in Turin, northern Italy, and it will complement the…
BERLIN (Reuters) – The books for Volkswagen’s hotly anticipated initial public offering of Porsche AG are covered multiple times on the full size of the deal, a bookrunner involved in the listing said on Tuesday. Indicated demand for the listing, due to take place on September 29 at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, exceeds the full…
TOKYO (AP) — Asian shares mostly rose Tuesday, after Wall Street closed higher on a late buying spree following recent losses as investors await another interest rate increase by the U.S. Federal Reserve. Markets have been jittery over whether the Fed’s plan to cool the hottest U.S. inflation in four decades might be too aggressive…
