PARIS (Reuters) -Airbus delivered 61 aircraft in August, bringing deliveries for the first eight months of the year to 434 jets, down 3% from the same period last year, the planemaker said on Friday, confirming a Reuters report. The European aerospace group also formally booked an order for 90 jets from Avolon, after the Irish …
By Jan Lopatka OSTRAVA, Czech Republic (Reuters) -The main Czech opposition party ANO, headed by business tycoon and former prime minister Andrej Babis, pledged on Thursday to cap energy prices, lower the pension age and reduce taxes for individuals and companies as it launched a final push to win back power next month. ANO is …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -The South African rand gained in early trade on Friday, after central bank data showed that the country’s foreign reserves increased last month. South Africa’s net foreign reserves rose to $65.899 billion at the end of August from $65.143 billion in July. Nedbank economists had expected the international liquidity position to only edge …
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(Reuters) -West Africa-focused Tullow Oil named oil and gas industry veteran Ian Perks as its new CEO on Friday, succeeding Richard Miller, who will return to his previous role as the group’s chief financial officer. The change comes as the company, which has been streamlining its operations, recently agreed to sell its assets in Gabon …
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(Reuters) -Emerging markets-focused asset manager Ashmore reported a lower full-year adjusted pretax profit on Friday, despite a reduction in net outflows as investors rebalanced their portfolios away from the U.S. on global market volatility. The group reported adjusted profit before tax of 70.1 million pounds ($94.70 million) in the year ended June 30, compared with …
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By Brijesh Patel (Reuters) – Gold rose on Friday and headed for its best week in three months, supported by growing expectations of an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve this month, as attention turns to the U.S. non-farm payrolls data due later in the day. Spot gold was up 0.2% at $3,552.71 per …
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By Dhwani Pandya MUMBAI (Reuters) -German bath fittings maker Hansgrohe will quadruple its India production as it aims to target rich and affluent Indians, just when it is facing a slowdown in its other key market of China, top company executives said. India has emerged as a hotspot for the likes of Hansgrohe, American giant …
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Por Leika Kihara TOKIO, 5 sep (Reuters) -Los diputados del partido gobernante de Japón votarán el lunes si se celebran unas elecciones extraordinarias sobre el liderazgo de la formación que podrían destituir al asediado primer ministro Shigeru Ishiba y tener un impacto significativo en la cuarta mayor economía del mundo. La preocupación por la incertidumbre …
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NEW DELHI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Top Indian refiner Indian Oil Corp skipped the purchase of U.S. oil in its latest tender and instead bought 2 million barrels of West African and a million barrels of Middle Eastern grade, trade sources said on Friday. The state refiner also bought one million barrels each of Nigerian oil grades Agbami …
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VLADIVOSTOK, RUSIA, 5 sep (Reuters) – El presidente ruso, Vladimir Putin, dijo el viernes que el gasoducto Power of Siberia 2, previsto para China, era un “proyecto mutuamente beneficioso” y que el precio del gas se basaría en una fórmula de mercado similar a la utilizada para los suministros a Europa. Rusia propuso la ruta …
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