FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Siemens Energy has fixed quality issues at onshore wind turbines it is currently selling to customers, the CEO of the group’s wind division Siemens Gamesa said on Friday, adding the group had made progress with its turnaround. The comments by Jochen Eickholt come after Siemens Energy this week unveiled 2.2 billion euros…
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poles will vote on whether they support the privatisation of state companies, Poland’s ruling party leader said on Friday, as he announced the first question in a number of referendums likely to be held on the same day as parliamentary elections. Ruling nationalists Law and Justice (PiS) had initially said they would…
(Reuters) -Spanish national consumer prices rose 2.3% in the 12 months through July, final data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) showed on Friday. The final reading confirmed both the flash estimate released by INE two weeks ago and the average estimate by analysts polled by Reuters. The year-on-year increase was mainly due to the…
By Andy Bruce and David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s economy eked out unexpected growth in the second quarter, laying the ground for more interest rate hikes from the Bank of England, but it remained the only big advanced economy yet to regain its pre-COVID, late-2019 level. Official data on Friday showed the economy grew 0.2%…
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) -One dead suspect and six others arrested in the assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio are Colombians, Ecuadorean police said on Thursday, and the government said it was pursuing the “intellectual authors” of the murder. The fatal shooting on Wednesday night, less than two weeks before the election, has…
By Jason Xue and Tom Westbrook SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A growing number of healthcare companies in China are shelving their initial public offering (IPO) plans as its stock exchanges have stepped up scrutiny of the pharmaceutical industry’s business practices amid an escalating anti-corruption drive. Healthcare stocks have already slumped in China since the government…
PARIS (Reuters) – French annual inflation reached 5.0% in July, in line with preliminary figure and down from 5.3% in June, dragged down by lower energy, food and manufacturing prices, according to final figures from the INSEE statistics body on Friday. The inflation figure, on an EU-harmonised basis, stood at 5.1%, slightly up from initial,…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Virgin Galactic on Thursday blasted three tourists to the edge of space aboard its air-launched VSS Unity spaceplane, a live stream showed, the Richard Branson-founded company’s second commercial mission as it starts routine flights. The rocket-powered VSS Unity craft dropped from the carrier plane over New Mexico around 9:20 a.m. local time…
By Nicolás Misculin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina will hold primary elections on Sunday, a nationwide ballot that will act as a giant voter poll ahead of general elections in October, with many people angry or apathetic over triple-digit inflation and rising poverty. The primary – an open and mandatory vote – will decide a…
(Reuters) – Outgoing Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has unveiled a list of people expected to feature in a new cabinet, including several sons and daughters of close allies and serving ministers. Hun Sen, who has ruled Cambodia for nearly four decades, is in the process of handing over power to his son, Hun Manet,…
