(Reuters) – Telix Pharmaceuticals rose over 3% on Thursday to hit an all-time high, after the radiopharma company said it would acquire UK-based medical device firm Lightpoint Medical. Telix had entered an agreement to buy Lightpoint and its radio-guided surgery business SENSEI, which specialises in intra-operative detection of cancer in real time, the company said…
(Corrects story to delete extraneous word in bullet point, fix abbreviation in paragraph 4.) By Kevin Yao and Ziyi Tang BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s central bank is likely to cut lending rates further in a bid to revive the economy but reluctance among private firms and households to borrow means continued policy easing could end…
(Corrects story to delete extraneous word in bullet point, fix abbreviation in paragraph 4.) By Kevin Yao and Ziyi Tang BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s central bank is likely to cut lending rates further in a bid to revive the economy but reluctance among private firms and households to borrow means continued policy easing could end…
By Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – The Panama Canal will expand restrictions on the largest ships crossing the waterway, one of the world’s busiest trade passages, the canal authority’s administrator said on Wednesday, citing shallower waters due to drought. The measure follows a series of depth restrictions in the 50-mile (80 km) canal since…
By Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will welcome Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a White House decorated with peacocks and lotus blooms on Thursday, hosting a vegetarian dinner but no specialties from Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Modi, a strict Hindu who follows…
By Elida Moreno PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – The Panama Canal will expand restrictions on the largest ships crossing the waterway, one of the world’s busiest trade passages, the canal authority’s administrator said on Wednesday, citing shallower waters due to drought. The measure follows a series of depth restrictions in the 50-mile (80 km) canal since…
By Joseph Ax and Steve Gorman (Reuters) -Rescuers searching for a missing submersible near the wreck of the Titanic focused on Wednesday on a remote patch of the North Atlantic where undersea noises were detected, although officials cautioned the sounds may not have originated from the vessel. With the submersible’s air supply expected to run…
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) -The head of Australia’s central bank will find out in July whether he will be reappointed to a second term, as customary, or be passed over for a new leader as part of the biggest shake-up of the institution in decades. Treasurer Jim Chalmers told reporters on Thursday he would…
(Reuters) – The Caribbean islands of St. Lucia and Martinique will shut down schools and nurseries tomorrow ahead of the arrival of one of the season’s first tropical storms, officials said on Wednesday. The storm is forecast to move across the area late on Thursday. “After 21 days into the hurricane season an unusually early…
HOUSTON (Reuters) – A fire on a reformer at Exxon Mobil Corp’s 564,440 barrel-per-day (bpd) Baytown, Texas, refinery was quickly extinguished on Wednesday, said people familiar with plant operations. The fire was put out a few minutes after it began on Wednesday afternoon on the 65,000-bpd Hydroformer 4, the sources said. No injuries were reported….
