By Aftab Ahmed and Swati Bhat NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India is preparing a stepped-up deficit reduction plan in its annual budget due out next month, two government officials said, holding fast to fiscal targets that will require deep spending cuts and could pose fresh risks in a slowing global economy. Government officials had already …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish inflation slowed down to end 2022 at 5.7% thanks to lower energy price increases, the National Statistics Institute said on Friday, a tad lower than the 5.8% figure released two weeks ago. INE, as the institute is known, attributed the inflation decline to cheaper heating oil and slower price increases of …
Washington (Reuters) – Der US-Designer Thom Browne verletzt mit seinem Streifen-Muster nach einem Gerichtsurteil nicht die Markenrechte des fränkischen Sportartikel-Riesen Adidas. Die Geschworenen im New Yorker Stadtteil Manhattan entschieden am Donnerstag (Ortszeit), dass die vier parallelen Streifen, die die Luxusmode-Marke seit 2008 verwendet, keine Verwechslungsgefahr mit dem berühmten drei Streifen von Adidas bergen. Der Sportartikelhersteller …
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By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) – Here is a timeline of what has been disclosed about the classified documents that ended up in a temporary office used by President Joe Biden and at his home in Wilmington, Delaware: 2017 Biden begins working periodically at the Penn Biden Center, a nonprofit think tank in Washington run by …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British broadcaster ITV said on Friday its new on-demand platform ITVX drew strong demand in its first month and was well received by advertisers, a positive update which should provide relief to investors fretting over advertising revenues. ITVX, a free, ad-funded service, was launched on Dec. 8 and replaced other platforms ITV Hub, …
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By Joe Cash and Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s central bank will take further measures to boost market confidence and increase support for manufacturers and small companies, a top official said on Friday, as hopes grow that the COVID-hit economy will stage a solid rebound this year. But Xuan Changneng, a deputy governor of …
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Frankfurt (Reuters) – Europas Anleger greifen vor dem Start der Berichtsaison in den USA und nach den US-Inflationsdaten nur zögerlich bei Aktien zu. Der deutsche Leitindex Dax legte am Freitagvormittag 0,3 Prozent auf 15.109 Zählern zu. Am Donnerstag hatte er nach der Rally zum Beginn des Börsenjahres erstmals seit dem russischen Angriff auf die Ukraine …
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Berlin (Reuters) – Der deutschen Wirtschaft bleibt womöglich eine Winter-Rezession erspart. Das Bruttoinlandsprodukt habe von Oktober bis Dezember 2022 “nach bisherigen Ergebnissen” voraussichtlich stagniert im Vergleich zum Vorquartal, gab das Statistische Bundesamt am Freitag in Berlin bekannt. Im Sommerquartal hatte es noch zu einem Wachstum gereicht. Die meisten Institute und Ökonomen gingen davon aus, dass …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German importers of hard coal for power generation plants and steelmaking have found new supply sources, enabling them to end reliance on Russia after a European Union ban, their association said on Friday. “Traders have found new focal points: United States, South Africa and Colombia,” industry association VDKi said in a statement. …
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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will travel to Senegal, Zambia and South Africa during the next two weeks, as the United States aims to strengthen ties with a continent that has been the focus of Chinese trade and investment for years. Yellen, 76, is the first member of President …
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