By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will hold talks with U.S. President Joe Biden next week when they will discuss improving economic ties and how to sustain military support for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. Sunak will be in Washington on Wednesday and Thursday next week for meetings with Biden,…
By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s competition regulator told supermarkets on Tuesday it was looking at their earnings to identify which supply chains it needed to examine more closely as part of efforts to tackle food price inflation. Food prices are up more than 19% over the last year, after the most sustained inflation…
By Tommy Wilkes LONDON (Reuters) -Three more insurance companies including Tokio Marine have left a United Nations-backed net-zero climate alliance, leaving the group with about half the number of members it counted two months ago as insurers take fright at U.S. political pressure. Some Republican politicians have mounted a campaign against financial institutions collaborating to…
(Reuters) – Yields on Treasury bills that are due in early June dropped on Tuesday on optimism that Congress will pass a deal to raise the country’s debt ceiling and avoid a potential default. A bipartisan deal to raise the $31.4 trillion U.S. debt ceiling now faces a series of votes in Congress, with both…
WIESBADEN, Germany (Reuters) – Hanno Berger, a former tax inspector turned legal tax expert, was sentenced on Tuesday to eight years and three months in jail by a court in Wiesbaden, as the nation comes to terms with one of its biggest post-war frauds. Berger had already been sentenced to eight years in jail in…
By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – British supermarket Asda said it would buy the bulk of petrol station operator EG Group’s UK and Ireland business to speed up its move into the convenience sector, creating a company with combined revenue of nearly 30 billion pounds ($38 billion). Asda, Britain’s third-largest grocer, and EG are both…
By Richa Naidu and Eva Mathews (Reuters) – Unilever Plc said on Tuesday Chief Financial Officer Graeme Pitkethly would leave the consumer goods giant by the end of May 2024 after more than two decades. Pitkethly, who has been with the maker of Dove soap since 2002, succeeded Jean-Marc Huët as finance chief in 2015….
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Out of the frying pan, and into the fire? Relief over the likely lifting of the U.S. debt ceiling this week is being reined in by the uncomfortable prospect of even higher Federal Reserve interest rates – and the further evaporation…
By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s Treasury department may not renew a A$1 million audit contract with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) when it ends this year, an official told a senate hearing amid a scandal over the firm’s misuse of confidential government tax plans. The global professional services firm is reeling after a former Australian tax partner…
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Vidya Ranganathan U.S. and UK markets return from their long weekend on Tuesday with a touch of ambivalence, happy that the weekend resulted in a U.S. debt ceiling agreement and yet anxious about how the deal will fare in congress. More detail and…
