By Jason Lange and Alexandra Ulmer WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s legal entanglements on Monday showed signs they could impact spending on his White House bid, as one of his main political groups reported massive outlays on legal expenses while also clawing back more than $12 million it had transferred to a super PAC supporting Trump’s…
By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -The Bank of Japan’s Friday decision to make its yield curve control (YCC) more flexible was not deemed a shift in its monetary easing stance, Japan’s government ministers in charge of economic policy said on Tuesday. By tweaking YCC, BOJ last week allowed the country’s interest rates to rise more…
(This July 30 story has been corrected to say that “Barbie” was No. 1 by opening, not total sales, for 2023 in paragraph 2) By Nicholas P. Brown (Reuters) – Warner Bros’ “Barbie” showed no signs of slowing down in its second weekend at the box office, and was set to haul in $93 million…
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Angus Cloud, cast member of the HBO teen drama series “Euphoria,” died on Monday at age 25 just days after the death of his father, his family said in a statement. Cloud played Fezco, an intense drug dealer with a moral code, in the series starring Zendaya in the lead…
By Milounee Purohit and Anant Chandak BENGALURU (Reuters) – The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will hold its key interest rate at 6.50% through end-March 2024, according to a Reuters poll of economists, who pushed back their expectations for the first rate cut to the second quarter of 2024 from the first quarter in a…
By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s largest pension fund, AustralianSuper, has appointed senior executives to its London office as part of the rapidly growing fund’s push to expand its presence overseas. The A$300 billion ($201.39 billion) fund on Tuesday appointed six executives to investment, risk and corporate affairs roles, including Carl Astorri to Head…
(Reuters) – It is gone. A giant, glowing X no longer marks the spot on the San Francisco high-rise that is headquarters to Elon Musk’s messaging company X, formerly known as Twitter. The city building department logged 24 complaints after a weekend of the big X, which on Friday was erected on the roof of…
By Jihoon Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s exports fell more than expected in July and at the steepest pace in more than three years, trade data showed on Tuesday, raising concerns that the downturn may drag on longer than expected amid persistently weak demand from China. Overseas sales by Asia’s fourth-largest economy fell 16.5% year-on-year…
MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Monday it needed to learn more about the purpose of talks planned in Saudi Arabia about the war in Ukraine, but Ukraine made it plain Russia was not welcome at the meeting. The meeting was first reported last Saturday in the Wall Street Journal, which said Saudi Arabia would…
(Reuters) -Lynas Rare Earths said on Tuesday it had signed an updated contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) for the construction of the heavy rare-earths component of its rare-earths processing facility in Texas. Under the contract, a contribution of about $258 million by the U.S. government is currently allocated to the project, higher…
