(Reuters) – Investors continued to withdraw from U.S. equity funds for a 12th straight week in the seven days to Feb. 8 as a report showing robust U.S. job additions in the last month fed fears that the U.S. Federal Reserve would keep raising interest rates this year. Refinitiv Lipper data showed investors exited a …
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(Reuters) -South Africa’s logistics utility Transnet on Friday suspended freight rail services on its North East Corridor, which links with several countries in southern Africa, as heavy rains damaged infrastructure on the line. The corridor, which mostly moves mineral commodities, links South Africa to Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. “Disruptive …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) – Nickel miner PT Vale Indonesia broke ground on a 37.5 trillion rupiah ($2.48 billion) ferronickel smelter Sulawesi island on Friday, an Indonesian senior minister said. The Bahodopi project will produce ferronickel with 73,000 to 80,000 tonnes of nickel content per year, Vale has said. “I hope this will be followed by the …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s video games regulator granted publishing licences to 87 domestic online games on Friday. Titles belonging to Tencent Holdings Ltd, NetEase Inc, and other developers received licences, according to the list from the National Press and Publication Administration. (Reporting by Beijing Newsroom; editing by Jason Neely)
NAGPUR, India (Reuters) -Rohit Sharma produced a captain’s knock of 120 and Ravindra Jadeja made an unbeaten 66 to put India in the box seat in the opening test against Australia on Friday despite Todd Murphy’s memorable debut in Nagpur. Murphy justified his selection by claiming 5-82 on a spin-friendly track at the Vidarbha Cricket …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Russia launched 71 cruise missiles at Ukraine on Friday and 61 of them were shot down, Ukraine’s air force said. “As of 11:30 a.m., the enemy had launched 71 X-101, X-555 and Kalibr missiles. The air defence forces, Air Force and other components of the Ukrainian Defence Forces destroyed 61 enemy cruise …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British households’ expectations for their personal finances over the next 12 months recorded a record jump in January as wholesale gas prices fell, according to a monthly survey by market research company YouGov and economics consultancy Cebr. The overall YouGov/Cebr consumer confidence index rose by 2.4 points to 98.3, while the component for …
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By Harry Robertson and Ankur Banerjee LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Japanese markets reacted with shock on Friday to news that the government had picked academic Kazuo Ueda to be the next central bank governor, but investors quickly snapped up the yen and sold bonds on expectations he will end years of super-easy monetary policy. Whether, when …
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PEKÍN, 10 feb (Reuters) – Un funcionario chino dijo el viernes a un alto cargo de la oposición taiwanesa que tanto el Partido Comunista de China como el Kuomintang (KMT) de Taiwán deben oponerse a la independencia de la isla y a la injerencia de fuerzas externas. Wang Huning, “número cuatro” del Partido Comunista, dijo …
(Reuters) – Global equity funds witnessed their first weekly outflow in five as a stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs report raised concerns that the Federal Reserve would keep policy rates higher for longer than anticipated. Refinitiv Lipper data showed investors withdrew about $209 million from global equity funds in the week to Feb. 8, marking their first …
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