By Foo Yun Chee (Reuters) – Intel on Wednesday won its appeal against a 1.06-billion-euro ($1.2 billion) EU antitrust fine handed down to the U.S. chipmaker twelve years ago for stifling a rival, in a major setback for EU antitrust regulators. The European Commission penalised Intel in 2009 for trying to block rival Advanced Micro…
By Susan Mathew (Reuters) – U.S. stock futures rose on Wednesday, with a surge in Microsoft lifting Nasdaq 100 futures, while investors keenly awaited the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decision later in the day. The move comes after two days of wild swings, driven by uncertainty about the Fed’s next move and rising worries about…
By Anna Ringstrom STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Hygiene products group Essity reported a bigger-than-expected drop in fourth-quarter profit on Wednesday and said it planned to further hike prices in the face of record high costs for raw material, energy and distribution. Operating profit at the world’s second-biggest maker of consumer tissue fell 34% from a year earlier…
BEIJING (AP) — Asian stock markets tumbled by unusually wide margins Thursday after the Federal Reserve indicated it plans to start raising interest rates soon to cool inflation. Market benchmarks in Tokyo and Hong Kong fell by more than 2%. Seoul and Sydney sank nearly 3%. Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 index lost 0.1% on…
HONG KONG (Reuters) -China Evergrande Group and its financial advisers will hold a call with investors at 9 pm (1300 GMT) on Wednesday, sources said, the first such call since it defaulted on some dollar bond payments last month. Evergrande, once China’s top selling real estate developer, has more than $300 billion in liabilities, including…
By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The euro hovered near 1-month lows versus the dollar and yen on Wednesday, hurt by concerns about the potential for military conflict in Ukraine and ahead of the Federal Reserve wrapping a meeting that could herald accelerated monetary tightening. Bank of Canada is also set to announce policy later…
LONDON (AP) — Prime Minister Boris Johnson was braced for the conclusions of an investigation into allegations of lockdown-breaching parties, a document that could help him end weeks of scandal and discontent, or bring his time in office to an abrupt close. Senior civil servant Sue Gray could turn in her report to the government…
By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) -Brent crude edged up on Wednesday as geopolitical tensions in Europe and the Middle East raised supply concerns while investors locked in profits ahead of updates from the U.S. Federal Reserve and U.S. oil inventory data. Oil prices hit seven-year highs last week on worries that supplies could tighten due…
The trenches are dusted with snow and tinged with soot and dirt. Dull colors will cling to them for weeks to come, as the men inside search for enough cellphone signal to hear the latest from the distant capitals that will decide their fate. Moscow, Washington, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna. Sometimes Kyiv. But only sometimes….
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s parliament is set to hold its first debate Wednesday on a possible wide-ranging coronavirus vaccine mandate, with three options emerging: obligatory vaccinations for all adults or for everyone above 50, or no mandate at all. German politicians of all stripes long insisted that there would be no vaccine mandate. But the…
