Dollar gains after steep losses, but downtrend stays intact
By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Joice Alves NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar bounced on Friday after falling sharply the…
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Oil prices fall on profit-taking, still record weekly gain
(Corrects Brent price unit in second paragraph to ‘per barrel’) By Shariq Khan BENGALURU (Reuters) – Oil prices fell more…
David’s Bridal avoids shutdown with no-cash bankruptcy sale
By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bankrupt wedding gown retailer David’s Bridal received court approval on Friday to sell…
Santander expanding investment bank in US and UK, sources
By Jesús Aguado, Andres Gonzalez and Iain Withers MADRID/LONDON (Reuters) – Santander is accelerating growth of its investment bank by…
European shares close best week in over three months on US disinflation hopes
By Amruta Khandekar and Matteo Allievi (Reuters) -European shares edged slightly lower on Friday, but that did little to change…
UK extends Activision deadline after receiving Microsoft’s ‘complex’ proposal
By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s competition regulator on Friday extended its final deadline on Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal…
StanChart to sell five sub-Saharan Africa businesses to Access Bank
DUBAI (Reuters) – Standard Chartered said on Friday it has reached an agreement to sell its subsidiaries in five sub-Saharan…
One in four UK single parent households unable to afford food
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – More than a quarter of Britain’s single parent households have recently run out of…
Kevin Spacey tells London court sexual assault accusation is ‘absolute bollocks’
By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -Kevin Spacey described an allegation he grabbed a man’s crotch as “absolute bollocks” on Friday,…
Erdogan says he is in agreement with Putin that grain deal should be extended
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that he is in agreement with Russian President Vladimir Putin…