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Brazil’s Americanas to seek bidders for fruit and vegetable unit
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil retailer Americanas SA said on Thursday it will next week start to seek potential bidders for the acquisition of its Hortifruti Natural da Terra (HNT) business unit. In a ...
May 18, 2023
Australia’s AMP fined $16.3 million for charging fees to deceased clients
(Reuters) - Australian financial services firm AMP Ltd said on Friday it had been charged with a A$24 million ($16.28 million) fine by the federal court for billing thousands of dead clients for insur...
May 18, 2023
Oil prices fall on strong dollar, sticky inflation
By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) - Oil prices fell slightly in early Asian trade on Friday as optimism that a U.S. debt default will be avoided weighed against sticky inflation data that could portend more...
May 18, 2023
ClientEarth challenges UK court dismissal of Shell climate lawsuit
By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) - ClientEarth, an environmental law charity turned activist Shell investor, said on Friday it was challenging a London court decision to dismiss its novel lawsuit ag...
May 18, 2023
U.S. Midwest grid operator flags urgent need for market reforms
(Reuters) - The electric grid operator for the U.S. Midwest on Thursday drew attention to the pressing need to reform power markets in the face of a shifting generation fleet and worsening extreme wea...
May 18, 2023
Japan’s core CPI rises 3.4% in April yr/yr – govt
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's core consumer prices rose 3.4% in April from a year earlier, government data showed on Friday. The increase in the core consumer price index (CPI), which excludes volatile fr...
May 18, 2023
Apple restricts use of ChatGPT – WSJ
(Reuters) - Apple Inc has restricted the use of ChatGPT and other external artificial intelligence tools as it develops its own similar technology, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. (Repor...
May 18, 2023
Berkshire Hathaway boosts stake in Occidental Petroleum to 24.4%
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Berkshire Hathaway Inc said on Thursday it had acquired more shares of Occidental Petroleum Corp, boosting its stake in the oil company to 24.4%. In a regulatory filing...
May 18, 2023
UK plans 1 billion pounds of semiconductor investment in new strategy
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain announced 1 billion pounds ($1.26 billion) of investment for its semiconductor sector on Friday in a long-awaited strategy that aims to strengthen the domestic industry and ...
May 18, 2023
UK consumers turn more confident despite inflation pain – GfK
By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) - British consumer confidence has risen for the fourth month in a row to its highest in 15 months as households take a more positive view about the economy and their ...
May 18, 2023
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