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Decline and near fall of Italy’s Monte dei Paschi, the world’s oldest bank
MILAN (Reuters) - A deal for the Italian government to sell Monte dei Paschi to UniCredit collapsed on Sunday https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/exclusive-italy-unicredit-set-call-off-talks-over...
Oct 25, 2021
Britain to raise minimum wage to 9.50 pounds a hour, BBC says
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will announce a rise in its minimum wage for those aged 23 and over to 9.50 pounds ($13.06) per hour from 8.91 pounds in the government's budget statement on Wednesday, the ...
Oct 25, 2021
Russian COVID cases hit record high as eastern Europe imposes new curbs
By Luiza Ilie and Gleb Stolyarov BUCHAREST/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia reported a record high number of daily COVID-19 cases and some central European countries imposed fresh restrictions on Monday, as ...
Oct 25, 2021
Investors look beyond chip dent to German car earnings
By Victoria Waldersee BERLIN (Reuters) - German carmakers will reveal the extent of the dent a global chip shortage has made in their third quarter earnings over the next ten days, as investors fret o...
Oct 25, 2021
Hertz orders 100,000 Tesla cars for end of 2022
(Reuters) -Hertz said on Monday the car rental firm has ordered 100,000 Tesla Inc cars for delivery by the end of 2022 as it invests to build the largest electric vehicle rental fleet in North America...
Oct 25, 2021
Futures edge higher as Big Tech earnings take centre stage
By Devik Jain (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Monday as investors geared up for earnings reports from heavyweight technology companies this week, while PayPal jumped after it said...
Oct 25, 2021
President Biden to attend ASEAN-U.S. summit on Tuesday
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will attend a meeting with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Tuesday, the U.S. embassy in Brunei told Reuters. Biden will l...
Oct 25, 2021
With axes and stones, women make their mark on traditional Basque rural sports
By Vincent West MUNGIA, Spain (Reuters) - Women lifted heavy stones up to their shoulders and swung axes during the Women's Championship of Herri-Kirolak - or Basque sports - as a new generation aims ...
Oct 25, 2021
France moves to shield its book industry from Amazon
By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) - Sophie Fornairon's independent bookshop has survived the rise of Amazon thanks to a French law that prohibits price discounting on new books, but she says the e-c...
Oct 25, 2021
Afghan women lawyers on the run face life in limbo abroad
By Karolina Tagaris ATHENS (Reuters) - When the Taliban seized Afghanistan, lawyer Bibi Chaman Hafizi heard the militants were going door to door, hunting for people who worked for the state, so she b...
Oct 25, 2021
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