By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole. It’s been a quiet start to the week in Asia with much of the region on holiday. U.S. stocks futures are near flat, but EUROSTOXX futures added 0.5% to extend their recent bullish run. Presumably…
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – The euro scaled a nine-month high on the dollar on Monday as more hawkish comments on European interest rates contrasted with market pricing for a less aggressive Federal Reserve. The euro reached as far as $1.0903, breaking the recent peak of $1.08875 and opening the way to a spike…
(Reuters) – Spotify Technology is planning layoffs as soon as this week to cut costs, Bloomberg News reported on Sunday, joining the likes of Alphabet Inc, Amazon.com Inc, Microsoft Corp who have cut thousands of jobs recently. The report, which cited sources, said that the number of jobs being eliminated was not specified. Spotify did…
By Devayani Sathyan BENGALURU (Reuters) – Thailand’s central bank is expected to raise interest rates by 25 basis points on Wednesday to curb elevated inflation and further hikes are likely even as China’s reopening brightens the economic outlook, a Reuters poll found. Unlike its neighbours in Malaysia and Indonesia, The Bank of Thailand (BOT) is…
(Reuters) -Activist investor Elliott Management Corp has made a multi-billion dollar investment in cloud-based software firm Salesforce Inc, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. Details of the deal were not available, the report said. “We look forward to working constructively with Salesforce to realize the value befitting a…
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – The dollar was staring at a fourth straight session of losses against the euro on Monday as more hawkish comments on European interest rates contrasted with market pricing for a less aggressive Federal Reserve. The euro crept ahead to $1.0870 and nearer its recent nine-month peak of $1.08875. A…
By Nia Williams and Steve Scherer (Reuters) – In Canada’s western oil patch, controversy is raging over federal government legislation intended to help the fossil fuel labour force transition to a greener economy, but union and community leaders are warning politicization of the Just Transition bill obscures the needs of workers. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s…
By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Bank of Canada will offer minutes from its policy-setting meeting this week for the first time in its history, a move some analysts say will help restore credibility lost last year amid soaring inflation and encourage out-of-the-box thinking. Annual inflation shot to 8.1% in June, the highest in…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The Bayer investor Union Investment criticized Bayer’s chair for a lack of engagement, such as exploring a spin-off of the company’s consumer health division, according to an interview in WirtschaftsWoche. Bayer is facing demands from activist investor Bluebell Capital Partners to break up, with a sale of the company’s consumer health unit…
(Reuters) – Members of two local unions at CNH Industrial NV factories in Wisconsin and Iowa reached an agreement over a new labor contract on Saturday, ending a strike that has been ongoing since last May, the United Auto Workers union said. The contract, which was voted on as an improved “last, best, and final…
