South Korea annual economic growth likely slowed slightly in Q2 – Reuters poll
By Anant Chandak BENGALURU (Reuters) – South Korea’s economic growth likely slowed a bit last quarter as languishing exports and…
Mexico’s Banorte posts profit boost on insurance, trading units
By Carolina Pulice and Kylie Madry MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s Grupo Financiero Banorte reported on Thursday a 14% increase…
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy calls for spending restraint, minister offers to resign
KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged his government on Thursday to keep a tight rein on spending in…
North Korea hackers breached US IT company in bid to steal crypto
By Christopher Bing and Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A North Korean government-backed hacking group penetrated an American IT management company…
‘Reality bites’: High inflation and rates hit UK consumer confidence
By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – British consumers have turned more pessimistic in the face of rising interest rates and…
Asia’s private credit markets thrive as desperate borrowers find lenders
By Rae Wee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – When global commercial real estate services firm JLL found public debt and loan markets…
Judge throws out Citigroup ex-trader’s lawsuit tied to foreign exchange probe
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. judge threw out a $112 million lawsuit by a former senior…
Biden’s labor secretary pick Julie Su to stay in job indefinitely, sources say
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s pick for labor secretary, Julie Su, will be kept on…
Iraq expels Swedish ambassador over planned Koran burning
By Timour Azhari, Ahmed Rasheed and Anna Ringstrom BAGHDAD/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Iraq expelled the Swedish ambassador on Thursday in protest…
Analysis-Iraqi cleric Sadr flexes muscle with torching of Swedish embassy
By Ahmed Rasheed and Timour Azhari BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Less than a year after declaring he had left Iraqi politics,…