By Herbert Lash and Joice Alves NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -The dollar was little changed on Monday against a basket of major trading currencies and gained against a yen that’s under intervention watch after the Japanese finance minister warned last week of excessive moves in the currency market. The dollar initially weakened on news of U.S….
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO members are expected to agree on Tuesday to extend the term of Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg for a further year, according to four diplomats. The decision has been widely signaled in recent weeks but ambassadors to NATO are expected to formally approve the extension during a meeting on Tuesday, said the…
MILAN (Reuters) – Carmaker Stellantis will invest up to 200 million euros ($218 million) to ensure its Italian Mirafiori site, the historic home of Fiat, remains one of its primary locations for what it is calling its “green campus” programme. Mirafiori, which is in Turin, will rank alongside Poissy in France and Russelsheim in Germany…
By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – British billionaire Richard Branson severely damaged Virgin Group’s reputation by residing in a tax haven while UK-based airline Virgin Atlantic sought a government bailout during the pandemic, according to internal Virgin emails cited in a $250 million London lawsuit on Monday. The emails were cited by lawyers for U.S….
By Amruta Khandekar and Shreyashi Sanyal (Reuters) -European shares erased gains by the closing bell to finish lower on Monday as AstraZeneca led falls among healthcare stocks that outweighed gains by Generali and among miners buoyed by hopes of more policy stimulus from China. The pan-European STOXX 600 index dipped 0.2%, reversing gains of some…
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -An alleged sex assault victim of Kevin Spacey said the “slippery” Hollywood actor had tried to “groom” him, and the repeated groping assaults had left him feeling physically sick, a London court heard on Monday. Spacey, 63, is on trial at Southwark Crown Court accused of a dozen allegations of…
By Orhan Coskun, Ezgi Erkoyun and Huseyin Hayatsever ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey will continue its monetary policy U-turn, which began with a sharp post-election rate hike last month, until the inflation outlook improves significantly, the central bank said on Monday. The hawkish policy guidance came as data showed the central bank’s net foreign reserves recorded…
LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. property catastrophe reinsurance rates rose by as much as 50% at a key July 1 renewal date, broker Gallagher Re said in a report on Monday, with states such as California and Florida increasingly hit by wildfires and hurricanes. Reinsurers insure insurance companies, and have been raising rates in recent years…
LONDON (Reuters) – Megan Greene, who is due to join the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee this week, said central banks should not assume that interest rates will settle back down at their pre-coronavirus levels along with lower inflation. In a column published by the Financial Times on Monday, Greene said it was unclear…
By Tatiana Bautzer NEW YORK (Reuters) -UBS has gone on a U.S. recruiting drive for wealth managers catering to rich Americans even as it considers culling 30% of its combined global workforce after the takeover of Credit Suisse. UBS recruited 50 financial advisers, including from Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch unit, JPMorgan Chase’s recently acquired…
