FILE PHOTO: The first Air France airliner’s Airbus A350 prepares to take off after a ceremony at the aircraft builder’s headquarters in Colomiers near Toulouse, France, September 27, 2019. REUTERS/Regis DuvignauPARIS (Reuters) – The French state will be able to raise its shareholding in Air France to nearly 30% and become its biggest shareholder under a state-backed refinancing to help […]
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FILE PHOTO: The logo of SoftBank Group Corp is displayed at SoftBank World 2017 conference in Tokyo, Japan, July 20, 2017. REUTERS/Issei Kato(Reuters) -SoftBank Group Corp has agreed to buy a 40% stake in AutoStore for $2.8 billion, the Norway-based robotics firm said on Monday, in yet another big investment by the conglomerate in warehouse automation technology that optimizes e-commerce […]
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FORT COLLINS, Colo. (Reuters) – Chicago corn futures fell ahead of last week’s much anticipated U.S. government reports, but heavily bullish speculators stayed the course, extending their long position on the yellow grain.A truck is loaded with corn next to a pile of soybeans at Matawan Grain & Feed elevator near New Richland, Minnesota October 14, 2015. REUTERS/Karl Plume/File PhotoIn […]
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(Reuters) – Myanmar’s pro-democracy protesters sprayed red paint on roads in Yangon on Tuesday in a reminder to the junta that it had blood on its hands as the crisis created by a military coup in the Southeast Asian nation dragged on with no end in sight. Several groups called for a boycott of next week’s Thingyan Water Festival, which […]
Read more(Adds background on deliveries, analyst comment, updates shares) April 5 (Reuters) – Shares of Tesla Inc surged nearly 8% in pre-market trading on Monday, after the world’s most valuable carmaker posted record deliveries as a solid demand for its electric cars offset the impact of a global shortage of chips. The electric-car maker said on Friday it was encouraged by […]
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MILAN/MADRID (Reuters) – Europe’s biggest utilities Enel and Iberdrola saw the clean energy transition coming decades ago when others baulked at the high cost of producing energy from the sun and wind and instead stuck with coal and oil.FILE PHOTO: Iberdrola’s power generating wind turbines are seen at dusk in Moranchon wind farm in central Spain December 17, 2012. Picture […]
Read more(Repeats to additional customers) WINNIPEG, Manitoba, April 6 (Reuters) – The Canadian province of Saskatchewan forecast on Tuesday a C$2.6-billion ($2.07 billion)deficit in the current 2021-22 fiscal year, up from last year’s C$1.9 billion, as the pandemic drives up costs. The province, whose economy relies on farming, oil production and mining, is running a larger deficit so it can effectively […]
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s Court of Appeal on Monday will begin hearing a bid by former prime minister Najib Razak to set aside his conviction on corruption charges in a case linked to a multibillion-dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB.FILE PHOTO: Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak walks out of a courtroom for a break at Kuala Lumpur High […]
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new regulator for tech giants Facebook and Google launches on Wednesday with an initial remit to see if a code of conduct could improve the balance of power between the platforms and news publishers.Slideshow ( 3 images )The Digital Markets Unit (DMU), based in the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), has been set up to stop […]
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