By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) – Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) and Morgan Stanley said on Tuesday they will deepen their 15-year old alliance by combining some operations at their Japanese brokerage joint ventures. The cooperation, to be implemented in the first half of 2024, builds on a partnership that started with MUFG’s $9 billion…
By Ludwig Burger FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Novartis on Tuesday raised its full-year earnings forecast for the second time on strong drug sales and mapped out the planned separation and stock market debut of its generic medicines division Sandoz for early October. The Swiss drugmaker said in a statement it expected group core operating income to grow…
(Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said a cooling — but not faltering — labor market is playing a leading role in helping slow inflation, among a raft of factors imposing disinflationary pressures, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. Yellen also told Bloomberg in an interview on Monday that the United States was making good…
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The European Central Bank (ECB) will look closely for signs of inflation cooling down in the coming months to avoid taking rate hikes too far, governing council member Klaas Knot said in an interview on Tuesday. Referring to the possibility of further rate hikes, Knot said: “For July it is a necessity,…
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Chinese car maker Geely will invest $10 billion to develop Malaysia’s main auto-making hub, state news agency Bernama quoted Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim as saying on Tuesday,. Anwar said the plan was conveyed to him in a letter from Geely, which also owns 49.9% of Malaysian car maker Proton, Bernama reported….
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc must face a California lawsuit claiming it should have covered UberEats drivers’ work-related expenses, the state’s top court said on Monday, in what could be a major blow to companies in the largest U.S. state and a win for labor advocates. The California Supreme Court in a…
(Reuters) – Bank of New York Mellon Corp beat Wall Street targets for second-quarter profit on Tuesday as the U.S. Federal Reserve’s aggressive policy tightening boosted income earned from interest payments on loans. Higher rates have helped several big U.S. banks post strong profit for the quarter and signal a resilient economy, but a pullback…
LONDON (Reuters) – England and Wales are on track for the highest quarterly number of company insolvencies since early 2009, as businesses struggle to repay COVID-19 loans against a tough economic backdrop, government figures showed on Tuesday. The Insolvency Service, a government agency, said 2,163 companies were declared insolvent in June, up 27% on a…
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan The benign July investment environment gets tested on Tuesday by updates on U.S. retail sales and housing while the corporate earnings season kicks back into gear with another sweep of bank reports. Wall St ended in positive territory on Monday after…
BERLIN (Reuters) -German media group ProSiebenSat.1 will cut 400 full-time positions, the company said on Tuesday, as part of restructuring measures focusing on its entertainment activities. “The aim is to achieve a more efficient structure, a competitive cost base, and processes clearly geared to digital transformation,” the company said in a statement. ProSiebenSat.1 said the…
