CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Parliament passed bilateral free trade agreements with India and Britain on Tuesday, leaving those partner nations to bring the deals into force. The deals are crucial for Australia to diversify its exports from the troubled Chinese market to India and to Britain’s need to forge new bilateral trade relations since…
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Alphabet’s Google faces a second fine of 5-10% of its turnover in Russia for what the state communications regulator said on Wednesday was a repeated failure to delete banned content, including “misleading information” on YouTube about events in Ukraine. Russian bailiffs in May seized more than 7.7 billion roubles ($143 million) from Google…
By Mahamat Ramadane and Sabrina Valle N’DJAMENA (Reuters) -Chad may ask its courts to block Savannah Energy’s purchase of Exxon Mobil Corp’s assets in the country, saying the final terms of the deal were substantially different from what had been presented to it a year ago. Exxon Mobil closed the $407 million sale of its…
By Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) -German inflation fell in July, resuming the decline since the start of the year that was interrupted the previous month due to the base effects in June’s data. German consumer prices, harmonised to compare with other European Union countries, rose by 6.5% on the year in July, preliminary data from…
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares slipped on Monday ahead of a week packed with central bank meetings and U.S. inflation data, while the euro eked out a gain on relief the far right did not win the first round of the French presidential elections. French leader Emmanuel Macron and far right challenger…
(Drops inaccurate reference to Crescent Point being an oil sands company in last paragraph) By Shariq Khan (Reuters) – Canadian oil and gas producer Crescent Point Energy Corp is looking to sell some of its assets in Alberta and Saskatchewan that could fetch around C$500 million ($394 million), according to an industry source and marketing…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China will strengthen the coordination of various policies to boost growth and meet this year’s economic target, according to a cabinet meeting cited by state media on Wednesday. The meeting held on Wednesday comes amid China’s mounting economic woes with a prolonged property crisis, deflationary pressure and slower growth in retail sales…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. on Friday imposed new sanctions on four Russians linked to financial and investment conglomerate Alfa Group and a Russian business association, the latest measures targeting Moscow’s financial elite over the war in Ukraine. The Treasury Department said it was targeting four men who have served on Alfa’s supervisory board – Petr…
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A fresh push for a bipartisan immigration overhaul, coupled with enhanced border security, is emerging in the U.S. Congress, as thousands of migrants amass across the border in Mexico ahead of the end of COVID-era border restrictions next week. The latest among those efforts is a last-minute legislative push…
(Reuters) – Chinese gaming and social media company Tencent Holdings Ltd on Wednesday sold a stake worth $3.01 billion in Singapore-based gaming and e-commerce firm Sea Ltd. Tencent sold 14.5 million shares in Sea Ltd at $208 each in a block trade, according to a term sheet reviewed by Reuters. It had said on Tuesday…
