(Reuters) – Shares of WW International Inc, also known as WeightWatchers, slumped more than 12% before the bell on Thursday after the weight-loss program operator said its top shareholder Artal Group S.A. had sold its remaining stake in the company in a block trade. Market sources told Reuters late on Wednesday that a block of…
GENEVA (Reuters) – The number of internally displaced people (IDPs) reached a record 71.1 million worldwide last year due to conflicts such as the war in Ukraine and climate calamities like the monsoon floods in Pakistan, according to data published on Thursday. The Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) said that figure represented a 20%…
By Andrea Shalal NIIGATA, Japan (Reuters) -U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday urged Congress to raise the $31.4 trillion federal debt limit and avert an unprecedented default that would trigger a global economic downturn and risk undermining U.S. global economic leadership. Yellen issued the latest in a series of increasingly stark warnings in remarks…
By Evan Garcia HOUSTON, Texas (Reuters) – In Houston, Texas, a nonprofit group has been in a stand-off with local authorities over their feeding of homeless people in front of the city’s library. The Houston chapter of Food Not Bombs, an international organization which promotes sharing vegetarian food with others, has been issued tickets by…
TBILISI (Reuters) -Armenia and Azerbaijan blamed each other for an exchange of fire in a border area on Thursday in which Azerbaijan said one of its soldiers was killed. The clashes come amid an intensification of diplomatic talks between the two South Caucasus rivals aimed at bringing them back from the brink of another all-out…
By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Drug and pesticide maker Bayer said its 2023 results would likely come in at the lower end of its targeted range, hurt by cost inflation and a slump in prices of glyphosate-based weedkillers from last year’s highs. Bayer saw herbicide sales jump 44% in 2022 after Hurricane Ida damaged rival…
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Investor relief that ongoing U.S. disinflation takes pressure off the Federal Reserve to resume its 14-month interest rate rise campaign remains tempered by debt ceiling anxiety. While economists argue back and forth about the runes of April’s U.S. consumer price report,…
By Winni Zhou and Tom Westbrook SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China’s increasingly urgent efforts to tip its mountain of savings into the economy are running up against depositors shy of all but the safest investments, in the latest sign that weak confidence is holding back post-pandemic spending and growth. The latest move — prodding the “big…
By Foo Yun Chee, Martin Coulter and Supantha Mukherjee (Reuters) -European lawmakers came a step closer to passing new rules regulating artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, following a crunch vote on Thursday where they agreed tougher draft legislation. The European Union’s highly anticipated AI Act looks set to be the world’s first comprehensive legislation…
OSLO (Reuters) -Norway’s centre-left government said on Thursday it plans to spend an extra 56 billion Norwegian crowns ($5.3 billion) from its sovereign wealth fund in 2023 to compensate for soaring inflation and pay for aid to Ukraine. Cash spending from the $1.4 trillion fund is now expected to reach 372.6 billion crowns this year,…
