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Cucumber crisis: surging energy prices leave British glasshouses empty
By James Davey ROYDON, England (Reuters) - In a small corner of south-east England, vast glasshouses stand empty, the soaring cost of energy preventing their owner from using heat to grow cucumbers fo...
Mar 31, 2022
Analysis-Retail traders splurge on risky plays, fueling bounce
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) - Freshly emboldened retail investors have continued piling into risky assets, supporting a bounce that has buoyed everything from so-called meme stocks to cryp...
Mar 31, 2022
Analysis-U.S. and allies may find tapping stockpiles inadequate to plug Russian oil gap
By Noah Browning and Timothy Gardner LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top oil consuming nations may find that one of their main tools to fight high global oil prices - the release of strategic stockpiles...
Mar 31, 2022
Giga-casting and robots: How Volkswagen’s Trinity aims to catch up with Tesla
By Victoria Waldersee, Jan Schwartz and Nadine Schimroszik BERLIN (Reuters) - As Tesla kicks off production at its new German plant this month, Volkswagen is weeks away from finalising plans for a 2 b...
Mar 31, 2022
Apple mulls more memory chip suppliers, including China – Bloomberg News
(Reuters) - Apple Inc is exploring new suppliers for memory chips used in its iPhones, including a potentially first Chinese supplier, after a key Japanese partner had an output disruption, Bloomberg ...
Mar 30, 2022
Japan Q2 growth to be slower than first expected on price rises, Ukraine war – Reuters poll
By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's economy will grow at a slower pace than previously thought next quarter in part due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and its inflationary effect on global c...
Mar 30, 2022
Migrants stuck in Mexico hopeful U.S. will lift COVID-era expulsion policy at border
By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - News the United States is poised to end a pandemic-related expulsion policy at the U.S.-Mexico border has buoyed hopes across northern Mexico where thousands of...
Mar 30, 2022
Japan’s central bank keeps up yield defense, focus on bond-buying schedule
By Leika Kihara and Junko Fujita TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's central bank on Thursday offered to buy unlimited amounts of 10-year government bonds for the fourth straight day as part of its aggressive e...
Mar 30, 2022
G7 must act quicker on closing digital loophole vs sanctions – BOJ official
By Leika Kihara and Takahiko Wada TOKYO (Reuters) - G7 policymakers must speed up creation of a common framework to regulate digital currencies, as the Ukraine war heightens the need to avoid them bei...
Mar 30, 2022
Asian stocks ease, oil sinks as U.S. weighs reserves release
By Kanupriya Kapoor (Reuters) - Asian stocks on Thursday eased after this week's global rally, following Wall Street's overnight stumble, while oil dropped sharply as the United States weighed a massi...
Mar 30, 2022
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