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By David Milliken and William Schomberg LONDON, March 24 (Reuters) - British business activity has grown at the slowest pace in six months and manufacturers' input costs accelerated at the fastest rat...

March 24 (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods beat analysts' estimates for fourth-quarter sales and profit on Tuesday, helped by resilient demand for packaged meats and cost-saving efforts, lifting the U.S. p...

ROME, March 24 (Reuters) - Europe is dangerously unprepared to tackle a growing wildfire crisis, and must overhaul its fleets of firefighting aircraft and step up investment, according to a report. Th...

By Jonathan Cable and Balazs Koranyi LONDON/FRANKFURT, March 24 (Reuters) - Euro zone private sector growth nearly stalled this month as inflation expectations surged and delivery times soared, adding...

By Ziyi Tang and Ryan Woo BEIJING, March 24 (Reuters) - China's leading state-owned banks are expected to recover this year from record-low profit margins as the repricing of nearly $8 trillion worth ...

By Erwin Seba HOUSTON, March 24 (Reuters) - Valero Energy Corp has shut its 380,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, following an explosion and fire at a diesel hydrotreater un...

By Gemma Guasch March 24 (Reuters) - Shares of Puig, owner of fragrance brands Jean Paul Gaultier and Rabanne surged 16% on Tuesday, on track for their best trading day on record after the Spanish bea...

By Avinash P March 24 (Reuters) - European shares dipped to a near-four-month low on Tuesday, as conflicting signals from the ongoing war in the Middle East raised oil prices and dented risk appetite....

By Maria Martinez BERLIN, March 24 (Reuters) - Germany's private sector growth slowed to its weakest pace in three months in March as services lost momentum and costs surged amid the conflict in the M...

By Maria Martinez BERLIN, March 24 (Reuters) - Even before the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran began, German companies had grown more pessimistic about their business overseas because of trade barriers and m...