By Lawrence White BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) -HSBC faced down opposition to its strategy and climate policy at a fractious annual investor meeting in Birmingham in England on Friday, including a shareholder proposal to spin-off its lucrative Asia business backed by major investor Ping An. Europe’s biggest bank is expected to defeat a proposal submitted by…
(Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures rose on Friday as upbeat results from Apple underscored corporate earnings resilience despite a slowing U.S. economy, while investors awaited a key monthly employment report due later in the day. Apple Inc gained 2.2% in premarket trading on better-than-expected results, helped by strong iPhone sales and notable inroads in…
LONDON (Reuters) – Global gold demand fell in the first three months of 2023 as large purchases by central banks and Chinese consumers were offset by reduced investor buying, the World Gold Council (WGC) said on Friday. Total demand amounted to 1,081 tonnes, down 13% from the first quarter of 2022, the WGC said in…
By Rod Nickel and Pavel Polityuk WINNIPEG, Manitoba/KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s 12-year deal to buy enough uranium from Canadian miner Cameco Corp to power all of its nuclear reactors gives each side the right to change sales volumes with two years’ notice, the Ukrainian state-owned utility Energoatom told Reuters. The unusual flexibility of the deal…
By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Asian stocks rose, the dollar eased and gold hovered near record highs on Friday, as investors worried that a rout in shares of U.S. regional lenders earlier this week could herald more trouble for the banking sector. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan was 0.44% higher and…
By Federica Mileo (Reuters) – Air France-KLM on Friday reported better-than-expected first-quarter revenue and robust cash flow as it benefited from a global recovery in air travel and strong summer ticket sales. The carrier’s revenue grew 42% year-on-year to 6.33 billion euros ($6.97 billion), just above the 6.30 billion euros expected on average by analysts…
LONDON (Reuters) -Adidas’ first-quarter numbers came in better than expected, the company said on Friday, with sales down 1% from a year-ago period, as investors hope for the German sportswear giant to turn its fortunes around. Analysts expected sales to fall by 4% from the first quarter of 2022, according to consensus estimates compiled by…
By Jesús Aguado MADRID (Reuters) -Spain’s Caixabank said on Friday its net profit rose 21% in the first quarter from the same period in 2022 thanks to a strong increase in lending income and a solid performance of its insurance business. The lender reported a net profit of 855 million euros ($943.83 million) in the…
By Byron Kaye and Savyata Mishra (Reuters) -Australian lender ANZ Banking Group Ltd said it was diversifying beyond a residential mortgage market gripped by competition on Friday as earnings from its institutional arm overtook home lending. The country’s No. 4 lender reported a record first-half result as banks shift away from their traditional earnings engine…
By Chris Prentice, Trevor Hunnicutt and Andrea Shalal NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. federal and state officials are assessing whether “market manipulation” caused the recent volatility in banking shares, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday, as the White House vowed to monitor “short-selling pressures on healthy banks.” Shares of regional banks resumed…
