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Australian banks reject pressure to deal with cryptocurrency firms
By Paulina Duran SYDNEY (Reuters) - Two of Australia's largest lenders, National Australia Bank (NAB) and Westpac, on Thursday rejected criticism that they are stymieing competition by refusing to do ...
Sep 09, 2021
UK’s Computacenter sees chip supply shortages until 2022
(Reuters) - Computacenter Plc said on Thursday it expects supply crunches to last until next year as the British IT services firm struggles with a global shortage of electronic components, including c...
Sep 09, 2021
Nissan-backed Chinese startup WeRide develops self-driving vans
BEIJING (Reuters) - WeRide, a China-based autonomous driving startup, said on Thursday that it would start developing self-driving vans for urban logistics service, with automaker JMC and delivery fir...
Sep 09, 2021
Profit at bid target Morrisons falls 37% on COVID hit
LONDON (Reuters) -British supermarket group Morrisons, at the centre of a bid battle between two U.S. private equity firms, on Thursday reported a 37.1% fall in first-half profit, hurt by COVID-19 cos...
Sep 09, 2021
British airline easyJet to raise $1.7 billion, rejected bid offer
LONDON (Reuters) - British airline easyJet announced a fully underwritten rights issue to raise 1.2 billion pounds ($1.7 billion) plus a new debt facility to help its pandemic recovery, and added it h...
Sep 09, 2021
Merck KGaA lifts growth forecast for life science tools business
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's Merck KGaA on Thursday issued a more ambitious medium-term growth forecast for its Life Science unit, a supplier of materials and lab gear for the biotech industry. Lif...
Sep 09, 2021
National Bank of Kuwait starts selling dollar senior bonds – document
DUBAI (Reuters) - National Bank of Kuwait, the Gulf country's largest lender, has given initial price guidance for six-year U.S. dollar-denominated bonds of around 115 basis points over U.S. Treasurie...
Sep 09, 2021
European stock futures slide ahead of ECB meeting
(Reuters) - European stock futures slid on Thursday, tracking Asian shares lower on concerns of slowing global growth, while expectations were running high for the European Central Bank to announce a ...
Sep 09, 2021
Gambling firm 888 to buy William Hill’s non-U.S. assets for $3.03 billion
(Reuters) -British gambling firm 888 Holdings said on Thursday it has agreed to a deal with Caesars Entertainment Inc to buy the international assets of the U.S. casino group's William Hill business f...
Sep 09, 2021
Analysis-Unleashing reforms, Xi returns to China’s socialist roots
By Yew Lun Tian BEIJING (Reuters) - When Xi Jinping took command of the Communist Party in late 2012 and proclaimed "only socialism can save China", it was largely ignored as the perfunctory mention o...
Sep 09, 2021
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