By Neil Jerome Morales and Enrico Dela Cruz MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippine central bank kept its benchmark interest rate steady at 6.25% for a second straight meeting on Thursday, and its governor hinted the rate could stay there longer with inflation on an easing trend. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) Governor Felipe Medalla said…
OAKLAND, California (Reuters) – U.S. memory chip firm Micron Technology, Inc said on Thursday it would invest up to $825 million in a new chip assembly and test facility in Gujarat, India, its first factory in the country. Micron said that with support from the Indian central government and from the state of Gujarat, the…
LONDON (Reuters) – A spokesperson for Amazon declined to comment on Thursday on a Times newspaper report that highlighted talk of potential bid interest in British online supermarket group Ocado. Ocado shares were up 43% by 0923 GMT on the London Stock Exchange following the report. (Reporting by James Davey and Muvija M, Editing by…
By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) -Meta Platforms will return to its former status as a full growth stock after financial data provider FTSE Russell finishes its annual shakeup of its stock index components on Friday. The so-called Russell Reconstitution is important because it causes portfolio managers to scramble to readjust their holdings to better…
By Allison Lampert and Aditi Shah PARIS/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Standing at a small booth among a row of other Japanese aerospace suppliers at the Paris Airshow, Yoko Konno is excited at the prospect of new orders for her company, but frowns at long delays to get titanium and the rising cost of chemicals. “It…
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Even if investors sense light at the end of the tunnel, Western central banks are clearly not finished tightening credit just yet – certainly not in ‘inflation outlier’ Britain. Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell threw more cold water on hopes for…
ZURICH (Reuters) – The Swiss National Bank will consider closely the size of UBS following the completion of its takeover of Credit Suisse, the central bank’s vice-chairman said on Thursday. “Of course because it is such a big bank it needs to have higher capital requirements,” Martin Schlegel told an news conference in Zurich. He…
By Valentina Za MILAN (Reuters) -The Italian arm of France’s Credit Agricole has started offering fixed-term savings accounts to win new customers in its biggest foreign market, at a time when competition for cash among the country’s lenders grows. With deposit rates lagging soaring lending costs, banks have posted record earnings in recent quarters, prompting…
By Victoria Klesty OSLO (Reuters) -Norway’s central bank raised its key policy rate by 50 basis points (bps) to a 15-year high of 3.75% on Thursday in a bid to curb inflation, and said it aimed for another hike in August, predicting the rate would rise to 4.25% during the autumn. The increase was bigger…
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government has loosened its requirements for export credit guarantees for companies doing business with Ukraine in an effort to shore up economic recovery in the country, the economy ministry said Thursday. Effective immediately, the application procedure will no longer require bank guarantees if the risk is justifiable, replacing a stricter…
