BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary plans to cooperate with Croatia to increase the capacity of the Adriatic pipeline that brings non-Russian crude to Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff told a briefing on Thursday. Gergely Gulyas said the government had discussed its 2030 energy strategy and this would include enabling Hungarian oil and gas …
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By Choonsik Yoo and Yena Park SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s plans to loosen restrictions in its currency market will raise the won’s status globally and boost business opportunities for local financial firms, a vice finance minister told Reuters on Thursday. The new measures, unveiled earlier this week, call for more than doubling the trading hours …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) -Indian shares struggled for direction before closing marginally higher on Thursday as gains in high-weightage financials and tech stocks offset concerns over the U.S. Federal Reserve’s rate-hike trajectory and a slide in Adani Group stocks. The Nifty 50 index closed 0.12% higher at 17,893.45, while the S&P BSE Sensex ended 0.23% up at …
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By Richa Naidu LONDON (Reuters) – Unilever said on Thursday it expects a “consumption boom” in China as lockdowns ease, flagging $1.5-$2 trillion in “excess household savings” it believes could boost its sales in the country and in Southeast Asia. After almost three years of a “zero-COVID” strategy, Beijing dropped restrictions almost completely in early …
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By Clara Denina and Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) – Lithium-rich African countries, including Zimbabwe and Namibia, are trying to develop processing and refining industries to capture more of the profits of global demand for the battery material. As the auto industry shifts towards electric vehicles (EVs) – spurred by proposed bans on fossil-fuel cars …
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COLOMBO (Reuters) -State-owned SriLankan Airlines has defaulted on a $175 million bond as it was unable to meet a $6 million interest payment due in December, its chairperson told Reuters on Thursday, as the country struggles with its worst economic crisis in decades. The country of 22 million itself defaulted on loans last year and …
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By Siddhi Nayak and Dharamraj Dhutia MUMBAI (Reuters) – Supply of Indian government debt in the coming fiscal year is likely to outstrip demand, pushing up bond yields and prompting the Reserve Bank of India to likely provide support via bond buys, a rates strategist at Standard Chartered Bank said. The federal government aims to …
Por Julien Pretot PARÍS, 9 feb (Reuters) – El París Saint Germain, que ha mostrado preocupantes carencias en todos los ámbitos este año, necesita imperiosamente recomponerse si quiere tener alguna posibilidad ante el Bayern de Múnich en su duelo de octavos de final de la Liga de Campeones de la próxima semana. Los líderes de …
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Por Natalie Grover y Maggie Fick LONDRES, 9 feb (Reuters) – AstraZeneca pronosticó el jueves un crecimiento de los beneficios y los ingresos en 2023, en un momento en que la farmacéutica británica trata de compensar las pérdidas por medicamentos contra el COVID-19 con su lista de fármacos para el cáncer, el metabolismo y las …
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Brüssel/Berlin (Reuters) – Österreichs Bundeskanzler Karl Nehammer hat drastische Maßnahmen der EU-Staaten gegen die wachsende Zahl ankommender Migranten und Flüchtlinge gefordert. “Wir müssen in der ganzen Europäischen Union die Asylbremse anziehen”, sagte der konservative Politiker am Donnerstag vor dem Beginn des EU-Sondergipfels in Brüssel. Er verwies auf stark steigende Zahlen und forderte etwa für Länder …
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