By Nikolaj Skydsgaard COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -A thyroid cancer safety signal was raised by the EU’s drugs watchdog last month over several Novo Nordisk products including semaglutide, which is used in popular diabetes and obesity medicines Ozempic and Wegovy. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) raised the safety signal, which is a way to monitor potential adverse…
By Tom Sims FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Deutsche Bank is drawing up plans to cut 10% of its 17,000 German retail jobs over the next few years as part of cost savings, a person with knowledge of the matter said on Thursday. The plans at Germany’s largest bank come as Claudio de Sanctis prepares to take over…
By Daniel Trotta, Brad Brooks (Reuters) -Experts raised safety concerns in 2018 about the submersible vessel that has been missing since Sunday, when it descended with tourists on a deep ocean journey to view the wreckage of the Titanic. The pilot and four passengers are aboard and the available oxygen on the vehicle has been…
LONDON (Reuters) – Two creditors of France’s Orpea have filed an application in a U.S. court against another creditor and the creditor’s financial adviser to obtain and use documentation related to the care home operator’s French legal proceedings, a source close to the situation said. Orpea creditors Kyma Capital and LMR Partners lodged on Tuesday…
By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) -The Swiss National Bank raised its policy interest rate by 25 basis points on Thursday as the central bank pressed ahead with its campaign to dampen stubborn inflation and signalled that more tightening was likely to come. Chairman Thomas Jordan pointed to rising inflationary pressures and the danger of price…
PARIS (Reuters) – Following are highlights of what world leaders said at a summit in Paris on Thursday to boost crisis financing for poor countries, reform post-war financial systems and free up funds to tackle climate change. ON REFORM “Even with the capital that the World Bank and the MDBs (multinational development banks) have, there…
LONDON (Reuters) – Turkey’s new central bank governor Hafize Gaye Erkan delivered a smaller-than-expected interest rate hike at her first rate meeting on Thursday, sending the lira and the country’s dollar-denominated sovereign bonds sharply lower. The bank lifted its key rate 650 basis points to 15% compared to the median of 21% expected in a…
By Andrew Osborn and Olzhas Auyezov (Reuters) -Ukrainian missiles struck the Chonhar road bridge connecting Crimea with Russian-held parts of the southern Kherson region overnight, forcing traffic to be diverted to a different route, Russian-appointed officials said on Thursday. The so-called “gate to Crimea”, known by Russians with a different spelling as the Chongar Bridge,…
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Russian chapter of the global environmental campaign group WWF on Thursday said it had cut ties with WWF International after Russia designated WWF as an “undesirable organisation”. The label is equivalent to a ban on the group’s activities in Russia. On Wednesday, the prosecutor-general had accused WWF-Russia of presenting “security threats in…
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…
