SWIFT to trial live digital currency transactions next year
By Alun John LONDON (Reuters) – Global bank messaging network SWIFT will trial live transactions of tokenised assets and digital..
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Levi Strauss shares fall on weak holiday-quarter forecast
(Reuters) – Levi Strauss’ shares fell about 7% on Thursday after a tepid forecast for holiday-quarter revenue underscored ..
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Stocks lose ground, oil extends gains amid Middle East tension
By Iain Withers and Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – Global stocks fell on Thursday, weighed down by tepid trading in e..
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Britain’s Tesco lifts profit outlook after strong first half
By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) -Tesco, Britain’s biggest supermarket group, lifted its annual profit forecast on Thursday after..
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Mindstone and Pearson partner for new Generative AI certification program
The new certification bridges the gap between academic AI knowledge and practical workplace application, setting a new standard for AI..
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20 Adtech PR Campaigns That Worked
Ronn Torossian By Ronn Torossian, Chairman of 5WPR, a leading public relations agency. The world of adtech is always chan..
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Britain’s Tesco lifts annual profit forecast after strong first half
By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) -Tesco, Britain’s biggest supermarket group, lifted its annual profit forecast on Thursda..
Business
Morning Bid: PMIs to pave the way for rate cuts
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Stella Qiu Services PMIs due across Europe on Thursday are likely t..
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Asian shares retreat from 32-month top, Japan rallies as rate risk eases
By Stella Qiu SYDNEY (Reuters) -Asian shares retreated from a 32-month peak on Thursday as the sizzling rally in Hong Kong took..
Finance
Britain proposes new powers for banks in fight against fraudsters
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is giving banks enhanced new powers to delay and investigate suspicious payments in a bid to s..
Finance
Microsoft to make $4.8 billion AI, cloud investment in Italy
MILAN (Reuters) – Microsoft plans to invest 4.3 billion euros ($4.8 billion) over the next two years to strengthen its ar..
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France to stick with wind power development targets
PARIS (Reuters) – France is aiming for a target growth rate of 1.5 gigawatts (GW) per year in onshore wind power, Energy ministe..
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Stocks stable, oil rises as wary investors eye Middle East hostilities
By Sinéad Carew, Lawrence White NEW YORK/ LONDON (Reuters) -MSCI’s global equities index was up very slightly on Wednesday whi..
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ECB’s top conservative shifts tone with sanguine inflation message
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Euro zone inflation is increasingly likely to ease back to the European Central Bank’s 2% target on a durab..
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Dollar gains as ADP shows better than expected jobs gains
By Karen Brettell NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar hit a three-week high against the euro on Wednesday after the ADP national e..
Finance
Euro area long-dated yields rise after sharp drop, geopolitics in focus
By Stefano Rebaudo (Reuters) – Euro area government bond yields rose on Wednesday, a day after long-dated yields posted their ..
Business
LME monitors tightness in aluminium market after spike in spread
By Eric Onstad LONDON (Reuters) – The London Metal Exchange (LME) is tracking tightness in the aluminium market, which has see..
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Sainsbury’s boss looks to UK budget to lift spending gloom
By James Davey COBHAM, England (Reuters) – Britons bruised by a cost of living crisis will not start spending strongly again unt..
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Big oil’s big payouts under strain as energy prices fall
By Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) – Major energy companies are set to borrow billions to maintain shareholder payouts or cut the ra..
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Bonds rally, dollar firms as traders ponder rate cuts
By Yoruk Bahceli (Reuters) -Government bonds rallied on Tuesday as euro zone inflation data boosted the case for faster European Centr..
Finance
CVS explores options including potential break-up, sources say
By Anirban Sen NEW YORK (Reuters) – CVS Health is exploring options that could include a break-up of the company to separate its..
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Italy and BlackRock discuss potential data centres investment
ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met the head of the U.S. fund BlackRock Inc, Larry Fink, in Rome o..
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French retailer Casino to present new strategy with heavy job cuts expected
PARIS (Reuters) – French supermarket chain Casino will set out its new strategy in November, with heavy job cuts still li..
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Germany reports outbreak of H5N1 bird flu on a farm
PARIS (Reuters) – Germany reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a farm in the eastern region of Saxo..
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SoftBank to invest $500 million in OpenAI, The Information reports
(Reuters) – Japanese telecom company SoftBank’s Vision Fund will invest $500 million in OpenAI’s latest fundi..
Business
Big banks add October cut to ECB forecasts
LONDON (Reuters) -Major brokerages, including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, now expect the European Central Bank to deliver a qua..
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Thailand’s Central Group takes over Swiss department stores Globus
BERLIN (Reuters) – Thai retail and property conglomerate Central Group said on Monday it will take over the operational b..
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Labour’s move to tax private education leaves Britain divided
By Sarah Young MALVERN, England (Reuters) – Mark Manwaring-White, 67, had been hoping to retire but a policy introduced b..
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Grifols plans to invest $402 million in new industrial centre, El Economista says
(Reuters) – Spanish drugmaker Grifols plans to invest 360 million euros ($401.98 million) to build a new industrial plant..
Business
UK house prices rise 0.7% in September, Nationwide says
LONDON (Reuters) -British house prices rose by a higher-than-expected 0.7% in September from August, with the annual growth rat..
Finance
Exclusive-ByteDance plans new AI model trained with Huawei chips, sources say
(Reuters) – TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance plans to develop an AI model trained primarily with chips from compat..
Digital
UK business confidence falls from eight-year high, Lloyds says
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – British business confidence ebbed slightly this month after reaching an eight-year h..
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Spotify back up after outage hits over 40,000 users
(Reuters) -Audio streaming platform Spotify was back up after an approximate three-hour-long outage on Sunday, which at its pea..
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Dollar drops after inflation data, Yen rebounds on Ishiba win
By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) -The dollar weakened on Friday after a reading of U.S. inflation indicated price pressures con..
Finance
Oil steady but on track for weekly drop on firmer supply outlook
By Paul Carsten LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices held on Friday but remained on track for a weekly fall as investors weighed expect..
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Moncler CEO strengthens grip on company with LVMH deal
By Elisa Anzolin and Mimosa Spencer MILAN/PARIS (Reuters) -Moncler’s Chairman and CEO Remo Ruffini is tightening his cont..
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Aeffe sells ‘Moschino’ brand for perfumes to Euroitalia
MILAN (Reuters) – Italian fashion group Aeffe has agreed to transfer the ownership of its ‘Moschino’ brand in..
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