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Bank of England tells banks to quantify climate-change risks
LONDON (Reuters) - Banks in Britain should take an "ambitious" approach to quantifying risks from climate change on their business or face intervention by regulators if they fall short, the Bank of En...
Jan 12, 2022
Volkswagen Group reports 4.5% drop in deliveries
BERLIN (Reuters) - The Volkswagen Group said deliveries dropped 4.5%, to 8.9 million vehicles, in 2021, adding it expected supply chain bottlenecks to remain volatile in the first half of this year. T...
Jan 12, 2022
Fundraising surges in races for U.S. election oversight roles, report says
By Tim Reid LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Campaign donations are surging to candidates for U.S. election oversight roles, a report released on Wednesday found, in a sign of how former President Donald Trump...
Jan 12, 2022
Austrian central bank raises 2022 inflation forecast
BERLIN (Reuters) - Austria's central bank (OeNB) said on Wednesday it expects inflation in the country to rise in 2022 thanks to high energy prices and supply bottlenecks and only start dropping in 20...
Jan 12, 2022
China’s cabinet says it will promote transformation of digital economy
(Reuters) - China's cabinet issued a plan on Wednesday for the development of the country's digital economy, aiming to increase this sector's share of national GDP by pushing technologies like 6G and ...
Jan 12, 2022
U.S. govt to increase COVID-19 tests for schools by 10 million per month
By Nandita Bose (Reuters) - The Biden administration announced on Wednesday a new set of measures to keep schools open, including increasing access to COVID-19 tests, as the highly contagious Omicron ...
Jan 12, 2022
Column-Like Tortoise vs Hare, ECB may ‘normalize’ before Fed :Mike Dolan
By Mike Dolan LONDON (Reuters) - If the world's big central banks are convinced the economic emergency is over and policy should start to return to pre-pandemic settings, the ECB is likely to beat the...
Jan 12, 2022
German watchdog says Google agrees to remove Showcase from general searches
BERLIN (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google has offered to remove News Showcase content from general search results in a bid to end a competition investigation into the selection of news in the product, Germ...
Jan 12, 2022
DHL opens Middle East’s largest robotic sorting centre in Israel
AIRPORT CITY, Israel (Reuters) - Courier services company DHL Express has opened the Middle East's largest robotic sorting centre in central Israel, the company said on Wednesday. Had it not made the ...
Jan 12, 2022
Erdogan says will lower Turkish prices soon as possible
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will bring prices down as soon as possible, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, after annual inflation soared above 36% in December due largely to a currency crisis b...
Jan 12, 2022
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