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UK economy forecast to shrink 1.4% in 2023
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's economy is forecast to shrink by 1.4% in 2023, finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Thursday, citing the latest projections from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)...
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Forecasts split on Bank of Israel benchmark rate rise
By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Bank of Israel is expected to raise short-term interest rates for a sixth straight time next week, a Reuters poll shows, although analysts are split over the...
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Spain’s Jan-Sep trade deficit widens four-fold on energy prices
MADRID (Reuters) - Soaring energy prices pushed Spain's trade deficit in the first nine months of the year to widen four-fold from the same period a year earlier, to 53.44 billion euros ($55.49 billio...
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COP27: What are the sticking points to reaching a climate deal?
By Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) - Nations are deeply divided over how - and whether - they can reach a final agreement at the COP27 U.N. climate summit in Egypt. Here are some of the biggest sticking p...
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Foxconn hires over 100,000 workers for COVID-hit Chinese plant – Yicai
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Apple supplier Foxconn has hit a hiring target of 100,000 new workers for its Zhengzhou plant in China, financial news outlet Yicai reported on Thursday, a milestone that could ea...
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S.African civil servants plan protests to pressure govt over wages
PRETORIA (Reuters) - South African civil servants will march to the National Treasury in the administrative capital Pretoria and in the country's other eight provinces next Tuesday to pressure the gov...
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Exclusive-Mexico’s Pemex risks fines rather than fix violations -sources
By Stefanie Eschenbacher and Ana Isabel Martinez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Under pressure to increase production, Mexico's state oil company Pemex has risked fines for violations that cause environmenta...
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Gobble, gobble, gulp! Food prices put the bite on U.S. Thanksgiving feast
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Let the sticker shock begin: The upcoming U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, a time when families and friends typically celebrate with groaning sideboards, a stuffed...
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New G20 irritant for Biden: Restrictive U.S. electric vehicle tax subsidies
By David Lawder NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Electric vehicles (EVs) shuttled G20 delegations and security forces across the southern tip of Bali this week in a symbolic show of Indonesia's ambitio...
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Marketmind: Bear Hunt
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan. With the Federal Reserve still talking tough on U.S. interest rates, world markets switched attention back to Britain as it unveils ...
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