BERLIN (Reuters) -The German economy will contract more than previously expected this year as sticky inflation takes its toll on private consumption, the Ifo Institute said on Wednesday while presenting its forecasts. “The German economy is only very slowly working its way out of the recession,” Ifo’s head of economic forecasts, Timo Wollmershaeuser, said. German…
By Tom Käckenhoff DUESSELDORF (Reuters) – Thyssenkrupp should explore a sale of its warship division to peers, in addition to private equity players and a potential stock market listing, according to influential German labour union IG Metall. Leaders should “keep an eye on industrial investors”, IG Metall said in a union handout seen by Reuters,…
PARIS (Reuters) – Air France-KLM’s engineering and maintenance business is targeting a return to 2019 levels of operating profit in 2024, despite higher working capital, Anne Brachet, EVP of the division, said at the Paris Airshow on Wednesday. The division, which repairs and maintains aircraft, needs to stock certain parts to avoid shortages as the…
(Reuters) – Belarus, an ally of Russia in the war with Ukraine, said on Wednesday that its armed forces were beginning 10 days of annual “mobilisation exercises”. The Belarus defence ministry said the exercises were aimed at assessing the degree of preparation of state institutions to mobilise reservists. All Belarusian men must perform military service,…
PARIS (Reuters) – Pratt & Whitney is seeing “solid progress” in the aerospace supply chain after bottlenecks caused by the pandemic, Shane Eddy, president of engine maker Pratt & Whitney, said at the Paris Airshow on Wednesday. The Raytheon Technologies subsidiary, which has faced a backlash from airlines over durability problems and a shortage of…
MADRID (Reuters) – Britain telecoms company Vodafone has hired investment bank Morgan Stanley to evaluate the options for its Spanish unit, Spanish newspaper Expansion reported on Wednesday citing unidentified market sources. The company has started a strategic review on the future of its Spanish unit and its CEO Margherita Della Valle said last month the…
By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -Leaders meeting this week at a summit in Paris are set to back a push for multilateral development banks like the World Bank to put more capital at risk to boost lending, according to a draft summit statement seen by Reuters. Multilateral development banks are expected to be at the centre of…
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s public sector net debt surpassed 100% of gross domestic product in May as borrowing came in higher than expected, the Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday. Public sector net debt, excluding that of state-controlled banks, hit 2.567 trillion pounds ($3.28 trillion), equivalent to 100.1% of gross domestic product. That represented…
LONDON (Reuters) – Automakers are rushing to lock in graphite supply from outside dominant producer China as mined graphite demand for electric vehicle (EV) batteries outpaces other uses. Below are details of some Western companies producing, or planning to produce graphite, and their deals with auto makers and battery producers. NEXTSOURCE MATERIALS INC Launched its…
By Joseph Ax and Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – Canadian aircraft detected underwater noises in the North Atlantic in the search for a tourist submersible that vanished while on a voyage to the wreck of the Titanic , the U.S. Coast Guard said. The discovery on Tuesday led search teams to relocate their underwater robotic search…
