By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – British supermarket Asda said it would buy the bulk of petrol station operator EG Group’s UK and Ireland business to speed up its move into the convenience sector, creating a company with combined revenue of nearly 30 billion pounds ($38 billion). Asda, Britain’s third-largest grocer, and EG are both…
BILLY-BERCLAU, France (Reuters) -Stellantis will need one or even two additional large factories for electric vehicles batteries in the United States to reach its output targets, the company’s chief executive, Carlos Tavares, said on Tuesday. Speaking to journalists at the inauguration of a so-called gigafactory in northern France, Tavares said the Franco-Italian carmaker would need…
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s economy will expand by 6% in the next fiscal year that starts in July, an increase from a projected growth of 5.5% this year, boosted by petroleum industry-related investments, the finance ministry said on Tuesday. Ramathan Ggoobi, the finance ministry’s top technocrat, said in a statement that in the 2023/24 (July-June)…
By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) -Switzerland’s Social Democratic Party has drawn up a proposal to shrink UBS assets after its takeover of Credit Suisse to reduce the risk of another expensive state-backed rescue, its lawmaker was quoted as saying on Tuesday. It was not clear, though, how much traction the proposal, which was presented by…
By Richa Naidu and Eva Mathews (Reuters) – Unilever Plc said on Tuesday Chief Financial Officer Graeme Pitkethly would leave the consumer goods giant by the end of May 2024 after more than two decades. Pitkethly, who has been with the maker of Dove soap since 2002, succeeded Jean-Marc Huët as finance chief in 2015….
By Joice Alves and Scott Murdoch LONDON/SYDNEY (Reuters) – European stocks and the U.S. dollar fell, after climbing to a two-month high, on Tuesday as relief that the U.S. government had averted a possible default gave way to concern that the deal could face a rocky path through Congress. Longer-dated U.S. Treasuries rallied as traders…
LONDON (Reuters) – Mixed signals by major OPEC producers and their main allies have sparked volatility in oil prices ahead of an OPEC+ oil policy meeting set to take place this weekend. Brent crude and U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures ended last week over 1.5% higher, but fell by over 1% at 1047 GMT…
By Nell Mackenzie and Harry Robertson LONDON (Reuters) – Wall Street was tipped for a strong open on Tuesday, while the cost of insuring against a U.S. debt default fell and the safe-haven dollar weakened in a sign of broad optimism across markets that a U.S. debt ceiling crisis might be averted. U.S. markets reopen…
HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s treasury has announced measures to encourage the use of the local dollar as opposed to the U.S. dollar, in a bid to boost the local unit and tame rising consumer inflation. The measures include a directive that all government departments collect fees in the local currency, the introduction of a 1%…
By Anant Chandak and Vivek Mishra BENGALURU (Reuters) – The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will leave its key interest rate unchanged at 6.50% on June 8 and for the rest of 2023 as it waits to see the economic impact of a series of hikes over the past year, a Reuters poll of economists…
