(Reuters) - Canadian food and pharmacy retailer Loblaw Companies topped expectations for first-quarter revenue and profit on Wednesday, aided by sustained consumer demand well as easing prices of
By Deborah Bloom and Jonathan Stempel SEATTLE (Reuters) -Changpeng Zhao, the former chief executive of Binance, was sentenced on Tuesday to four months in prison after pleading guilty to violating U.S
By Seher Dareen (Reuters) -Industrial materials maker DuPont de Nemours said it sees demand returning in China and raised its full-year forecasts on Wednesday, sending shares of the company up 6% in
By Davide Barbuscia and Ross Kerber NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) -A pension fund for New York City employees urged BlackRock's shareholders to vote against the election of Saudi Aramco's chief executive
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people marched in Colombia's biggest cities on Wednesday to support reforms proposed by President Gustavo Petro which he says will tackle inequality, but which
HOUSTON (Reuters) -Exxon Mobil Corp is set to close its $60 billion acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources after an agreement with antitrust enforcers that will keep former Pioneer CEO Scott
By Deisy Buitrago CARACAS (Reuters) -Public employees in Venezuela will receive $130 per month in bonuses, President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday, amid demands by workers for salary increases and
By Jihoon Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's factory activity contracted again in April, but manufacturers' optimism climbed to the highest level in nearly two years as output and orders managed to
By Mark John LONDON (Reuters) - Foreign direct investment (FDI) into Europe fell 4% last year, with Germany seeing a sharp 12% drop in projects amid concern over its economic slowdown and energy
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's economic grew 2.7% in the first quarter on the year, official advance estimates showed on Thursday, driven by an increase in visitor arrivals and private consumption.
By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese officials may have spent some 3.66 trillion yen ($23.59 billion) on Wednesday in the latest attempt to pull the yen back from near 34-year lows, Bank of
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Anxious bond traders seem to have taken solace from the Federal Reserve's surprisingly sharp brake on its "quantitative tightening"
By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) - The global economy is growing faster than expected only a few months ago thanks to resilient U.S. activity while inflation is converging more quickly than expected
By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - The yen surged against the dollar on what traders suspect was another round of intervention by Japanese authorities to stem the currency's sharp
By Marion Giraldo MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Latin America's highest-income countries, with the exception of Argentina, will grow moderately this year and next because external demand will remain weak,
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's government plans to increase the daily minimum wage to 400 baht ($10.84) from October, a spokesperson said on Thursday, a policy that could help lift consumption in
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will likely keep intervening to prop up the yen until the risk of speculators triggering a free fall in the currency has been eliminated, said a former central
By Lawrence White and Selena Li LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) -Standard Chartered PLC beat forecasts on Thursday with a 5.5% rise in first-quarter pretax profit, as a surge in income from its trading and
By Himanshi Akhand (Reuters) - Short bets on most Asian currencies firmed to touch multi-month highs as growing expectations of U.S. interest rates staying higher for longer dampened appetite for
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Many Bank of Japan board members agreed the country's long-term interest rates should be set by markets, with some saying the central bank should at some point slow
By David Randall and Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell's reassuring message following the central bank’s monetary policy meeting may not calm frazzled U.S.
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's financial regulator on Thursday proposed detailed guidelines for companies if they choose to participate in the government's reform programme aimed at enhancing
By Stefanno Sulaiman and Gayatri Suroyo JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's annual inflation rate cooled slightly in April as pressure from some food prices eased as the harvest season began, the
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. trade deficit narrowed slightly in March as a decline in imports was tempered somewhat by a plunge in exports.
(Reuters) - Medtech firm Zimmer Biomet Holdings beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter profit on Thursday, on the back of robust demand for its devices that are used in knee and hip
