ROME (Reuters) – British American Tobacco and Amazon are under investigation in Italy over what regulators say is potentially misleading advertising for the Glo Hyper X2 tobacco heater, the Italian Competition Authority said on Tuesday. “It is not made clear, or it is inadequately stated” in the advertising that Glo Hyper X2 is a nicotine-based…
By Kevin Yao and Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s economy grew at a faster-than-expected pace in the first quarter, as the end of strict COVID curbs lifted businesses and consumers out of crippling pandemic disruptions, although headwinds from a global slowdown point to a bumpy ride ahead. More than a year-long sweeping streak of…
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s central bank expects average headline inflation at 2.6% over the next 12 months, within its target range of 1% to 3%, the Bank of Thailand said in an open letter to the Finance Ministry. Medium-term inflation expectations remained well-anchored within the target range, said the letter, which was dated April 7…
LONDON (Reuters) – More companies in England and Wales entered insolvency during March than at any point since monthly records started three years ago, according to official data on Tuesday that showed a 16% increase on a year ago. The Insolvency Service Agency reported 2,457 corporate insolvencies last month, up from 1,784 in February. The…
(Reuters) -Alphabet Inc shares fell as much as 4% on Monday following a report South Korea’s Samsung Electronics was considering replacing Google with Microsoft-owned Bing as the default search engine on its devices. The report, published by the New York Times over the weekend, underscores the growing challenges Google’s $162-billion-a-year search engine business face from…
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan With investors largely assuming recession ahead, an accelerating global economic pulse challenges the narrative and is seeing interest rates tick back higher again as the March banking wobble subsides. China’s economy grew at a faster-than-expected 4.5% pace in the first quarter,…
(Reuters) – Italy’s trade balance with the rest of the world swung to a surplus in February from a deficit a year earlier thanks mainly to the declining cost of energy imports, national statistics bureau ISTAT reported on Tuesday. Italy posted a trade surplus with the rest of the world of 2.108 billion euros ($2.31…
By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) – Airbus has started notifying airlines about delivery delays in 2024 for its best-selling A320neo family of jets, with several hundred of the single-aisle planes set to be postponed by as much as three months, industry sources said on Tuesday. Airbus confirmed unspecified delays for 2024 in a statement to…
(Reuters) – China’s economy grew at a faster-than-expected clip in the first quarter, official data showed on Tuesday, expanding 4.5% year-on-year, as policymakers move to bolster growth following the end of strict COVID-19 curbs in December. Analysts polled by Reuters had expected gross domestic product (GDP) to expand 4.0% from a year earlier, quickening from…
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Internal Revenue Service declared on Tuesday that it is completing its first “normal” tax filing season since the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020, with a backlog of millions of unprocessed returns from previous years fully cleared. New IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel told reporters that the initial spending…
