By Howard Schneider FARIBAULT, Minnesota (Reuters) – Demand for Daikin Applied Americas Inc’s climate control equipment is soaring, and worker recruitment is in hyperdrive, with hiring trips to women’s shelters and immigrant support groups and an open door for applicants with no high school degree or manufacturing experience. For Minnesota’s healthcare industry, an estimated 5,000…
By Nick Carey BRIXWORTH, England (Reuters) – Mercedes-Benz has plugged its Formula One team into the engineering process to build vastly more efficient mass-market electric vehicles (EVs), slashing development times by a quarter or more as it jump starts efforts to keep pace with Tesla. F1 technology has always eventually bled over into mass-market vehicles….
By Ron Bousso and Shadia Nasralla LONDON (Reuters) – BP made a $5 billion profit in the first quarter of 2023, a rise on the previous three months on the back of stellar oil and gas trading, but its shares fell sharply as it slowed a share buyback programme. The forecast-beating results from BP follow…
By Michael S. Derby (Reuters) – For all the assertions that the pandemic and the inflation surge that followed it have put an end to the low-interest-rate era, key officials at the Federal Reserve and elsewhere still see a return to that world as a likely outcome down the road. The Fed is nearing the…
By Antonella Cinelli ROME (Reuters) – Italian inflation jumped unexpectedly in April, driven by another spike in energy prices, official statistics agency ISTAT said on Tuesday. EU-harmonised consumer prices (HICP) rose a preliminary 1.0% month-on-month, with annual inflation accelerating to 8.8% from 8.1% in March, well above the median forecast of a 7.8% year-on-year rise….
By Selena Li and Lawrence White HONG KONG/LONDON (Reuters) – HSBC tripled its profit in the first quarter as rising interest rates boosted its income, beating analyst forecasts and helping the bank pay its first quarterly dividend since 2019. The strong results reported by HSBC and Asian rival DBS on Tuesday underscore how aggressive policy…
DUBLIN (Reuters) – AerCap expects to deliver full-year earnings at the higher end of its guidance as a broadening travel recovery and shortage of new aircraft boosts demand for plane leases and sales, the world’s largest aircraft lessor said on Tuesday. Chief Executive Officer Aengus Kelly said first quarter demand, in particular for engine leases…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – New orders for U.S.-made goods rebounded in March, boosted by a jump in civilian aircraft bookings, but the overall manufacturing industry continued to struggle under the weight of higher interest rates. Factory orders increased 0.9% after decreasing 1.1% in February, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast…
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany needs to be decisive in consolidating its public finances and to set clear spending priorities, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Tuesday. “The state can’t continue to spend more money than taxpayers provide,” he said at a press conference after the 27th meeting of the Stability Council on federal and…
By Nupur Anand, Anirban Sen, David French and Isla Binnie NEW YORK (Reuters) -On March 12, as several U.S. banks reeled from a crisis in confidence, JPMorgan Chase & Co put its might behind First Republic Bank, giving the troubled lender what two sources said was a $10 billion financing. The JPMorgan facility did not…
