By Charlie Devereux MADRID (Reuters) -Alberto Nunez Feijoo likes to cultivate a reputation for dullness – and it’s a personality trait that could help give him the upper hand this month in a tight contest to become Spain’s next leader. “What for some may be boring, I think for the majority of citizens are qualities…
By Belén Carreño, Andrei Khalip MADRID (Reuters) -Pedro Sanchez’s reputation as a risk-taker precedes him, but a snap national election he has called for this month represents the Spanish prime minister’s biggest political gamble yet. The bold move, made in late May after his Socialist Party (PSOE) did badly in local ballots, took senior members…
(Reuters) – Global investors extended their streak as net buyers of equity funds into a second week, drawing support from indications of cooling inflation that may moderate central banks’ inclination to raise rates further. According to Refinitiv Lipper data, global equity funds received a net $5.94 billion in inflows in the week ended July 5,…
(Reuters) – Decades-high inflation and the impact of war in Ukraine have forced companies across Europe into lay-offs or hiring freezes. Here are some of the companies that have announced cuts since January: AUTOS * AUTOLIV: the Swedish airbag and seatbelt maker said on June 8 it plans to cut around 8,000 jobs, which equates…
By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine would welcome receiving cluster munitions from the United States because they would have an “extraordinary psycho-emotional impact” on Russian forces, a senior Ukrainian official said on Friday. Three U.S officials speaking on condition of anonymity this week said a weapons aid package that includes cluster munitions fired by…
HOLA PRYSTAN, Russian-controlled Ukraine (Reuters) – Walking through what remains of his home, Leonid Garul points to the ceiling and the walls to show where the floodwaters reached last month when the massive Kakhovka dam was breached in southern Ukraine. A former sitting room now resembles a junkyard, with couches, tables and other bits of…
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Friday its troops had advanced by more than a kilometre near the eastern city of Bakhmut in the past day of fighting against Russian forces. The comments were the latest by Kyiv signalling that the counteroffensive it launched in early June is gradually making progress although Russian accounts of fighting…
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan The seeming serenity of June markets has finally been broken by summer storms as a blistering selloff in bonds snowballed following news of buoyant U.S. job creation last month that stiffens expectations for more interest rate rises. A trio of U.S….
By David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The police showed up two days after a Catholic clergyman at a church near the Nicaraguan capital Managua delivered a Sunday sermon in May that included a prayer “for our priests.” The officers played an audio clip of the prayer and warned: These kinds of things are…
By Tassilo Hummel WOIPPY, France (Reuters) – After a bout of street unrest just over a decade ago, the Woippy suburb of the northeastern city of Metz secured state funding to improve housing, refurbish streets and even create a riverside beach and educational farm complete with beehives and a llama. But such spending, part of…
