By Niket Nishant (Reuters) -NYSE-owner Intercontinental Exchange Inc (ICE) and Black Knight Inc on Tuesday agreed to sell one of the mortgage data vendor’s units to quell antitrust concerns, but said they would take the battle to court to save the deal, if necessary. Black Knight’s Empower loan origination system unit, which helps mortgage lenders …
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By Josie Kao (Reuters) – As International Women’s Day (IWD) approaches on Wednesday, here is a look at what the global event stands for, this year’s theme and the issues that activists are focusing on. On Tuesday, Spain unveiled a bill to boost the share of women in politics and business, including a proposed requirement …
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By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada will boost investments in the green transition in this year’s budget to compete with massive U.S. incentives, but the aim is to claim a portion of the growing clean-tech industry, not to go head-to-head with the world’s biggest economy, a senior Canadian government source said. Countries across the globe …
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By Bharat Gautam (Reuters) – Gold prices fell more than 1% on Tuesday, as the dollar jumped after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell indicated rate hikes could come at a faster pace from the U.S. central bank in his testimony to a congressional committee. Spot gold was down 1.8% at $1,813.11 per ounce by 1:54 …
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ZURICH (Reuters) – The Swiss National Bank cannot rule out that it will have to raise interest rates again to bring inflation under control, Chairman Thomas Jordan said on Tuesday. “We cannot rule out that we will have to further tighten monetary policy,” said Jordan in his final public appearance before the SNB makes its …
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Por Marianna Parraga HOUSTON, 7 mar (Reuters) – Estados Unidos no planea un alivio sistemático de las sanciones a Venezuela, que desde 2019 han reducido su producción y exportaciones de petróleo, incluso tras otorgar licencias específicas a socios de PDVSA para cobrar la deuda pendiente, dijo un funcionario del Departamento de Estado. El Gobierno del …
By Marianna Parraga HOUSTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government is not planning a systematic easing of sanctions on Venezuela after an initial round allowed partners of state-run oil firm PDVSA to resume taking oil for past debts, a State Department official said. In November, Washington issued a six-month license allowing Chevron Corp to expand operations …
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By Nandita Bose and Lisa Baertlein WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Engineering company Siemens AG announced on Tuesday it is investing over $220 million to build a rail car manufacturing facility in North Carolina. The announcement comes as the Biden administration and fellow Democrats direct billions in federal funding to upgrade aging infrastructure and increase U.S. manufacturing, hoping …
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Por Marta Nogueira RÍO DE JANEIRO, 7 Mar (Reuters) – Petrobras tendrá como estrategia analizar y financiar grandes proyectos de energía renovable y podrá evaluar nuevas asociaciones con empresas del sector con ese objetivo, dijo el martes su presidente, Jean Paul Prates. El ejecutivo anunció el lunes que la empresa estudia, junto con la noruega …
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By Ron Bousso and Simon Webb HOUSTON (Reuters) – Europe will struggle over the next two winters to replace Russian natural gas supplies as China’s appetite for the fuel recovers, the chief executive of Norwegian energy giant Equinor told Reuters on Tuesday. Equinor became Europe’s top natural gas supplier last year after exports from Russia …
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