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Australia’s Lynas gets regulator nod for disposal facility in Malaysia
(Reuters) - Lynas Rare Earths Ltd said on Thursday it has got environmental approvals from Malaysian authorities to build a permanent disposal facility for water leached purification residue in the co...
Dec 30, 2021
ECB 2023/24 inflation forecasts subject to downside not just upside risks -Visco
MILAN (Reuters) - The European Central Bank's forecasts that inflation in the euro zone will be below 2% in 2023 and 2024 are exposed to downside not just upside risks, ECB Governing Council member Ig...
Dec 30, 2021
Spain’s December flash CPI rises to 6.7% y/y, highest since 1989
(Reuters) - Spanish consumer prices rose to 6.7% year-on-year in December, the fastest pace since 1989, flash data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) showed on Thursday. The 12-month inflati...
Dec 30, 2021
China Evergrande says construction resumes at 91.7% of projects
HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Evergrande Group said on Thursday in its Wechat account that 91.7% of its national projects have resumed construction after three months of effort. Company Chairman Hui Ka ...
Dec 30, 2021
UK house prices cap strong year with another jump-Nationwide
LONDON (Reuters) - British house prices rose by a stronger-than-expected 1.0% in December from November, capping the biggest full-year rise in prices since 2006, figures from mortgage lender Nationwid...
Dec 30, 2021
South Africa’s anti-apartheid hero Tutu to lie in state at St.George’s Cathedral
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The body of South Africa's anti-apartheid theologian, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, arrived at Cape Town's St George's Cathedral on Thursday morning, where it will lie in state for tw...
Dec 30, 2021
The Year of the Doge? 2021, crypto’s wildest year yet
By Tom Wilson and Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin close to $70,000, "memecoins" worth billions of dollars, a blockbuster Wall Street listing and a sweeping Chinese crackdown: 2021 was th...
Dec 30, 2021
ECB’s Knot: good chance inflation remains above 2% after 2022
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Inflation in the euro zone could very well exceed the European Central Bank's (ECB) current projections for the coming years, ECB governing council member Klaas Knot said in an i...
Dec 30, 2021
Russian services sector shrinks in December as COVID-19 takes toll – PMI
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's service sector contracted for a third straight month in December as the volume of new orders shrank, while business confidence fell to its lowest level in more than a year,...
Dec 30, 2021
Women force change at Indian iPhone plant, sick from bad food, crowded dorms
By Sudarshan Varadhan, A. Ananthalakshmi and Ahmed Farhatha SRIPERUMBUDUR, India (Reuters) - For women who assembled iPhones at a Foxconn plant in southern India, crowded dorms without flush toilets a...
Dec 30, 2021
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