LONDON (Reuters) – Almost one in three female workers in Britain expect to stop working before reaching their retirement age with many citing health and well-being issues including the menopause, according to a survey published on Wednesday. The British Standards Institution, which commissioned the survey, said the results showed the need for employers and the…
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever, financial markets columnist. The most important Asian economic indicator from a pretty packed calendar on Wednesday, and biggest potential market-mover, will be China’s services purchasing managers index report for June, which comes amid the latest ratcheting up of…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Chinese automaker BYD on Tuesday said it will invest 3 billion reais ($620.17 million) in a new industrial complex in northeastern Brazil, as it aims to boost local production to offer more competitive prices. The complex, made up of three plants, will be built in the Camacari industrial park in the…
(Reuters) – Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino on Tuesday tweeted a defense of the temporary cap announced July 1 on the number of tweets users can read in a day, and the company said advertising has been stable in the days since the step that drew heavy criticism from users and marketing professionals. Yaccarino wrote in…
By Natalie Grover LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices climbed 2% on Tuesday as markets weighed August supply cuts by top exporters Saudi Arabia and Russia against a weak global economic outlook. Saudi Arabia on Monday said it would extend its voluntary output cut of 1 million barrels per day (bpd) to August while Russia and Algeria…
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland intends to increase core public expenditure by 6.1% next year in an overall budget package of 6.4 billion euros ($6.98 billion), according to its Summer Economic Statement. Two years ago, the government said it would try to anchor expenditure growth to the growth rate of the economy, at around 5% per…
By Huw Jones and David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – British banks should have to serve a customer even if they disagree with his or her lawful political views, and should apply anti-money laundering checks proportionately, financial services minister Andrew Griffith said on Tuesday. Earlier on Tuesday Nigel Farage, the former Brexit Party leader, said British…
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan is set to begin pumping out more than a million tonnes of treated water from the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant this summer, a process that will take decades to complete. The water was distilled after being contaminated from contact with fuel rods at the reactor, destroyed in a 2011 earthquake….
By Echo Wang and Anirban Sen NEW YORK (Reuters) – China-founded online retailer Shein is working with at least three investment banks about a potential U.S. initial public offering, and has been in talks with the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, people familiar with the matter said. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase…
By Amruta Khandekar and Shreyashi Sanyal (Reuters) -European shares were steady in thin trading on Tuesday, with a lack of fresh economic data from the region and uncertainty around the direction of global interest rates keeping investors cautious. The pan-European STOXX 600 index inched 0.1% higher at the close, trading within a two-point range for…
