(Reuters) – Southwest Airlines expects an ongoing Boeing 737 MAX manufacturing problem to delay some plane deliveries this year, Southwest said Friday. “We are in discussions with Boeing to understand what that impact will be in 2023 and beyond,” the company said. The manufacturing problem involves fittings that were incorrectly installed on the fuselage made…
(Reuters) – Traders of futures tied to the Federal Reserve’s policy rate on Friday kept bets the U.S. central bank will increase its benchmark rate in May by another quarter-of-a-percentage point, even after a report showed overall retail sales dropped more than expected last month. U.S. short-term interest rate futures reflect the view that a…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. import prices fell more than expected in March, leading to the biggest year-on-year decline since mid-2020, further evidence that inflation pressures were subsiding. Import prices dropped 0.6% last month after slipping 0.2% in February, the Labor Department said on Friday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast import prices, which exclude tariffs,…
By Valentine Hilaire MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican investment firm JLL Capital, whose Honduran operation has been blocked since 2018 in a local dispute, is seeking some $380 million from the Central American country in arbitration proceedings, claiming that it violated foreign investment protections, documents reviewed by Reuters show. The case was triggered in January…
By Balazs Koranyi WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A growing number of European Central Bank policymakers are calling for the bank to stop reinvesting cash into its largest bond buying scheme, to help trim its balance sheet as part of efforts to tackle inflation, sources with direct knowledge said. The ECB is still sitting on 3.2 trillion…
By Howard Schneider (Reuters) – Despite a year of aggressive rate increases U.S. central bankers “haven’t made much progress” in returning inflation to their 2% target and need to move interest rates higher still, Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller said on Friday. Important measures of underlying inflation have “basically moved sideways with no apparent downward…
By Ahmad Ghaddar LONDON (Reuters) – European Union and G7 restrictions on Russian oil exports led to a global shift in oil flows, with Asian refiners soaking up discounted Russian crude, in part explaining the recent OPEC+ decision to curtail output further, the West’s energy watchdog said on Friday. With the arrival of over three…
(Reuters) – Loblaw Companies Ltd on Friday said it would spend C$2 billion ($1.50 billion) to expand its business in 2023 and create more than 6,000 new jobs in retail, supply chain, technology and construction in Canada. The Canadian retailer’s investment comes at a time when it is seeing strength in its pharmacy business, as…
MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s foreign exchange reserves jumped to $584.76 billion for the week ended April 7, the highest in nine months, the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) statistical supplement showed on Friday. That is an increase of $6.3 billion from the previous week. The central bank intervenes in the spot and forwards markets to…
BENGALURU (Reuters) -Reliance Industries Ltd’s Viacom18 will receive an investment of 43.06 billion rupees ($527.84 million) from Bodhi Tree, about 70% less than what was planned by the joint venture between James Murdoch and a former Star India executive. Viacom18 said in a statement late on Thursday that Reliance was now leading the investment in…
