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Rio Tinto shares plunge as Serbia pulls plug on its $2.4 billion lithium project
By Sonali Paul MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Shares in Rio Tinto tumbled on Friday after Serbia revoked its lithium exploration licences over environmental concerns, hurting the Anglo-Australian miner's ambit...
Jan 21, 2022
U.S. crude exports ramp up as global demand recovers
By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. crude exports are ramping up due to increasing demand from Asia and Europe and recovering U.S. production from the lows of the coronavirus pandemic. Surgin...
Jan 21, 2022
Factbox-World faces shortage of lithium for electric vehicle batteries
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Lithium is in hot demand due to rapidly growing production of electric vehicles that use lithium-ion batteries, but there is a global supply shortage of the metal, with western c...
Jan 21, 2022
Analysis-German big business piles pressure on Lithuania in China row
By Andrius Sytas and John O'Donnell VILNIUS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Lithuania is under pressure from German companies to back down in a dispute with China to end a blockade of the Baltic state, as Europ...
Jan 21, 2022
Japan’s Kishida says up to BOJ to decide on exit from easy money policy
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reiterated on Friday it was up to the central bank to decide on an exit strategy from its massive stimulus programme. "It's left to the Bank of ...
Jan 20, 2022
Qantas to cut more domestic capacity after W. Australia delays border opening
SYDNEY (Reuters) -Qantas Airways Ltd will cut domestic capacity by 10 more percentage points, to 60% of pre-pandemic levels, in the March quarter after the state of Western Australia indefinitely dela...
Jan 20, 2022
Germany wants to attract 400,000 skilled workers from abroad each year
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's new coalition government wants to attract 400,000 qualified workers from abroad each year to tackle both a demographic imbalance and labour shortages in key sectors that r...
Jan 20, 2022
Tokyo’s consumer prices seen posting slower growth in January: Reuters poll
TOKYO (Reuters) - Consumer inflation in Tokyo will likely post slightly slower year-on-year growth in January, a Reuters poll showed, after the suspension of a government discount travel campaign in l...
Jan 20, 2022
China forex regulator aims to defuse risk of external shocks
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China must prevent and defuse the risk of external shocks this year while strengthening macro-prudential management and guiding market expectations, the country's foreign exchange...
Jan 20, 2022
South Africa gets $750 million World Bank loan to bolster COVID recovery effort
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The World Bank has approved a loan of $750 million to South Africa linked to COVID-19, aiming to help protect the poor and support economic recovery from the pandemic, the Nation...
Jan 20, 2022
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