By Lisa Barrington DUBAI (Reuters) – The United States and the United Arab Emirates are seeking an additional $4 billion of global investment in an initiative launched last year to make agriculture resilient to climate change and reduce its emissions, a U.S. official said on Sunday. The two countries launched the Agriculture Innovation Mission for…
By Julia Love and Helen Coster (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s new social media venture, Truth Social, appears set to launch in Apple’s App Store on Monday, according to posts from an executive on a test version viewed by Reuters, potentially marking the return of the former president to social media on the U.S. Presidents Day…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A vote in which nearly 1,700 workers at Mexico’s Tridonex auto-parts plant will have the chance to elect a new union has been pushed back one week to Feb. 28, according to an official document seen by Reuters on Saturday. Workers at the plant in the northern Mexico city of Matamoros…
By Stephen Jewkes and Elvira Pollina MILAN (Reuters) -A group of investors led by Boston Celtics co-owner Stephen Pagliuca has agreed to buy into Italian Serie A club Atalanta. The deal is the latest U.S.-led investment in Italy’s top soccer league following the acquisitions of Genoa, AC Milan, Fiorentina, Spezia, AS Roma and Venezia. Nine…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany’s Lufthansa group is suspending flights to and from the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Odessa, a spokesperson said on Saturday amid growing fears of a possible Russian invasion. The company, which owns Germany’s flagship carrier as well as Eurowings, Swiss, Brussels and Austrian Airlines, will conduct some last flights to those…
(Reuters) – NextEra Energy Inc said one of its units recorded an $800 million impairment charge in the first quarter as the U.S. renewable energy company re-evaluates its investment in the long-delayed Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline from West Virginia to Virginia. NextEra said in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing on Friday that…
SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China’s securities regulator will put more emphasis on preventing and resolving bond default risks, and will deepen bond issuance reforms and strengthen regulation, a summary of a meeting posted on its website said on Saturday. The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) called for giving more prominence to openness and transparency, and deepening reforms…
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s securities regulator will put more emphasis on preventing and resolving bond default risks, according to a summary of a meeting posted on its website on Saturday. China’s current internal and external environment is complex and severe, but the country’s stable economic progress and its long-term development trend has not changed, the…
By Gayatri Suroyo and David Lawder JAKARTA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russia and China watered down a G20 finance leaders’ statement on geopolitical risks to the global economy as a contentious meeting ended on Friday, deleting a reference to “current” tensions as financial markets fretted over the prospect of war in Ukraine. The gathering of finance ministers and…
(Reuters) – Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management Inc is looking to raise $25 billion for its fifth flagship infrastructure fund, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. Brookfield has already started marketing the fund and may exceed the target, according to the report, which cited a person familiar with the matter. A company spokesperson declined to comment. Brookfield…
