By Karin Strohecker and Sujata Rao LONDON (Reuters) – Global stocks edged up and bond yields clung to recent highs on Tuesday as investors awaited U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s appearance before the Senate Banking Committee, hoping for clues to the timing of expected policy tightening. Powell, who is seeking a second four-year term…
LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar slipped on Tuesday but was stuck within recent ranges as investors waited for U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to speak at a congressional hearing later in the day. European shares were up in early trading, following a late-session recovery for Wall Street, while U.S. Treasury yields were a touch…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Shares in Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank opened lower on Tuesday after the U.S. investor Cerberus sold holdings in the two lenders. Deutsche Bank opened 1.8% lower, while Commerzbank dropped 2.9%. (Reporting by Tom Sims, Editing by Miranda Murray)
By Clare Jim HONG KONG (Reuters) – Cash-strapped Chinese property developer Shimao Group Holdings on Tuesday denied a media report that it has entered into a preliminary agreement to sell a Shanghai plaza, but said it was in talks with potential buyers to sell some properties. The Shanghai-based developer said last week that it had…
By Koustav Samanta and Sonali Paul SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Oil prices climbed on Tuesday, with investors regaining some risk appetite as they await clues from the U.S. Federal Reserve chairman on potential interest rate rises and as some oil producers continued to struggle to beef up output. Brent crude futures gained 60 cents, or 0.7%, to…
By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) – For more than a year, Amazon.com Inc and India’s Future Group have been locked in a complex legal stand-off that has stalled Future’s $3.4 billion sale of assets to the U.S. firm’s rival Reliance Industries – with no end in sight. Here’s what the dispute, seen as key…
By Norihiko Shirouzu BEIJING (Reuters) -Volkswagen AG said it would likely double sales of its ID battery electric vehicles in China this year and aims to do even better but the automaker could be hamstrung by a shortage of semiconductors. The ID series, which Volkswagen produces at its Chinese joint ventures with SAIC Motor and…
(Reuters) – A power shutdown at a third-party data centre has caused connectivity issues at London Metal Exchange (LME), impacting metals trading, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. Trading, which was due to re-open at 9 a.m. Shanghai time, remains unavailable, and the last trades conducted on all six base metals were before 2:00 a.m. Shanghai…
(Reuters) -Construction chemicals maker Sika AG on Tuesday reported a 17.3% rise in 2021 sales, boosted by a raft of acquisitions and the upturn in the building industry after pandemic closures the year before. The Swiss company, whose products are used to reinforce and water-proof concrete, said full-year sales rose to 9.24 billion francs ($9.98…
By Yuki Nitta TOKYO (Reuters) – Mizuho Financial Group will appoint senior executive officer Masahiro Kihara as its next chief executive who will be tasked with tackling long-running system failures, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The depth of those problems at Japan’s No. 3 lender was underscored again on Tuesday when…
