By Lisa Richwine and Rollo Ross LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hollywood film and television writers went on strike on Tuesday, shutting down late-night TV shows, and took their demands for higher pay to the doors of major studios in a labor dispute that hinges on how the streaming boom is changing show business. Hundreds of…
By Mathieu Rosemain and Matthieu Protard PARIS (Reuters) -BNP Paribas’s first-quarter sales beat market expectations as trading business at the eurozone’s biggest bank outperformed most of its peers, while it started to reap the benefits from rising interest rates. BNP’s quarterly profit more than doubled in the first quarter from a year earlier, bolstered by…
(Reuters) -An explosion derailed a freight train for the second day in a row in a Russian region bordering Ukraine on Tuesday, sending both the locomotive and some cars off the tracks, authorities said. The incident occurred in the western Bryansk region, which borders both Ukraine and Belarus. Russian officials say pro-Ukrainian sabotage groups have…
By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen, Greg Roumeliotis and Marie Mannes COPENHAGEN/NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. asset manager Apollo Global Management Inc plans to apply for approval from Swedish and Danish regulators to take a majority stake in SAS AB as part of the Scandinavian airline’s rescue plan, a source familiar with the matter said. The news of interest…
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) -The surging euro may be the European Central Bank’s best friend for a change. Unlike much of the past 15 years, euro strength is on the ECB’s side as it meets on Thursday. And it is unlikely to restrain the central bank from tightening further. With so much focus on…
By Giulio Piovaccari and Gilles Guillaume MILAN (Reuters) -Stellantis said on Wednesday improvements in chip supply and price rises boosted its revenues in the first quarter, but was cautious on the outlook for the rest of the year as its vehicle inventories were growing. CFO Richard Palmer, who will leave the world’s third-largest carmaker by…
By Ali Kucukgocmen and Nevzat Devranoglu ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish annual inflation slowed to 43.68% in April, official data showed on Wednesday, easing ahead of elections that polls show President Tayyip Erdogan risks losing largely due to a cost-of-living crisis. Unorthodox rate cuts sought by Erdogan sparked a currency crisis in late 2021, sending inflation to…
By Rozanna Latiff KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Malaysia’s central bank unexpectedly raised its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday, as it looks to manage persistent inflation amid strong domestic demand. Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) lifted its overnight policy rate by 25 basis points to 3%, confounding economists expectations for an extended pause. Some economists now see the…
BERLIN (Reuters) -Luxury carmaker Porsche will raise prices by 4-8% in Europe and the U.S. in the second half to combat higher costs that weighed on returns in the first quarter, even as profits and revenue jumped by over 25%, it said on Wednesday. The company was still seeing issues with the supply of semiconductors…
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden-based Volvo Cars said on Wednesday that sales increased by 10% year-on-year in April to 51,976 cars, boosted by strong gains in China. Volvo Cars, which is majority-owned by China’s Geely Holding, said in a statement that sales in China were up 46%. In Europe, its biggest market, sales were up 5%,…
