WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Production at U.S. factories unexpectedly fell in June, but rebounded in the second quarter as motor vehicle output accelerated after two straight quarterly declines. Manufacturing output dropped 0.3% last month, the Federal Reserve said on Tuesday. Data for May was revised down to show production at factories falling 0.2% instead of edging…
By Safiyah Riddle (Reuters) – U.S. home builder sentiment hit a 13-month high in July as limited housing stock continued to drive demand for new houses, according to a survey on Tuesday, but the report also hinted at increasing challenges from tightening credit conditions in the months to come. The National Association of Home Builders/Wells…
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) – Blackstone Group LP is to invest $150 million in London-based Astaris Capital Management which will be split between the firm’s existing hedge fund and a new pool of capital with a drawdown structure, two sources said. Astaris specializes in event-driven credit and equity investments in Europe and was…
(Reuters) – Canada’s annual inflation rate slowed to 2.8% in June on lower prices for gasoline as a result of the base-year effect, while food and mortgage interest costs remain high, Statistics Canada said on Tuesday. This beat analysts’ expectations for annual inflation to fall to 3.0%, down from 3.4% in May. STORIES: Market reaction:…
TORONTO (Reuters) – Canadian housing starts rose 41% in June compared with the previous month, the largest increase in the last 10 years, led by groundbreaking on multiple unit urban homes, data from the national housing agency showed on Tuesday. The seasonally adjusted annualized rate of housing starts rose to 281,373 units in June from…
(Reuters) – PNC Financial Services Group on Tuesday cut its forecast for full-year net interest income (NII), casting a shadow over the lender’s second-quarter earnings beat. Shares of the bank fell nearly 3.5% in premarket trading as it estimated NII to rise 5% to 6% in 2023 from last year, compared to its previous forecast…
(This July 16 story has been corrected to show that 25% is not the tax rate, but the share of corporate profit that would be taxed, in paragraphs 4 and 9) By Shivangi Acharya, Sarita Chaganti Singh and Nikunj Ohri NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India will push its Group of 20 partners at a meeting…
GANDHINAGAR, India (Reuters) – Global economic activity is slowing, especially in the manufacturing sector, and medium-term growth prospects remain weak, the chief of the International Monetary Fund told financial leaders of the Group of 20 nations on Tuesday. IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva, speaking to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in the western Indian…
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…
