13/12 Lawyers for the Nigerian government said they had filed a $1.1 billion lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell and Eni in a commercial court in London on Thursday in relation to a 2011 oilfield deal.Full story
22h37 France's budget deficit is likely
to overshoot the European Union's limit of 3 percent of GDP next
year and stand at around 3.2 percent, Prime Minister Edouard
Philippe told Les Echos newspaper in an. . . Full story
20h46 The French government said on
Sunday it had asked utility Engie to take hedging
positions to ensure gas prices do not rise until June next year.. . . Full story
17h09 A special Ukrainian court to try
corruption cases will hopefully be formed by February, President
Petro Poroshenko told a news conference on Sunday.. . . Full story
13h46 Indonesia on Sunday signed an
economic agreement with the European Free Trade Association
(EFTA) aimed at increasing trade and investment, concluding
almost eight years of negotiations.. . . Full story
13h26 Germany's economy minister said
he believed the Russian-backed Nord Stream 2 pipeline can go
ahead while preserving Ukraine's vital interests, but that
Berlin is also in talks to diversify its energy supply with
liquefied natural. . . Full story
12h32 Britain's main opposition Labour
Party will do all it can to force the government to bring a vote
on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal to parliament next
week, its election coordinator Andrew Gwynne. . . Full story
15/12 German railway Deutsche Bahn
said on Saturday that it had reached a wage agreement with the
EVG union following a walkout earlier this week.. . . Full story
14/12 French media giant Vivendi
called on Friday for the replacement of five of Telecom
Italia's board members put forward by U.S. activist
fund Elliott, citing a "substantial lack of independence".. . . Full story
14/12 A U.S. government auction for three wind
leases off the coast of Massachusetts ended on Friday with
record-setting bids totaling more than $400 million from
companies backed by European energy giants including Royal Dutch
Shell. . . Full story
14/12 Robusta coffee futures
hit a new contract low on Friday as ample supplies and fund
selling pressured prices, while raw sugar futures were pressured
by the falling currency in top grower Brazil.. . . Full story
14/12 Europe's biggest insurers
successfully withstood the latest tests of their ability to cope
with severe market shocks, the European Union's insurance
watchdog said on Friday.. . . Full story
14/12 Although the main banks have
stepped up preparations for a potential no-deal Brexit, UK-based
payment firms used by European Union customers are not ready,
the bloc's banking watchdog said on Friday.. . . Full story
14/12 Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe
Conte expressed hope on Friday of reaching a deal with Brussels
this weekend over his government's revised 2019 budget to avoid
an EU disciplinary procedure, but offered few new concessions.. . . Full story
14/12 Allied Irish Banks named
its head of wholesale and institutional banking as its new chief
executive on Friday, replacing Bernard Byrne who joined an
exodus blamed by the bank on a government-imposed pay cap.. . . Full story
14/12 European Union leaders took a
step towards deeper euro zone integration on Friday to help
prevent future crises, but deep disagreement left key issues
like a euro zone budget and a deposit guarantee scheme
unresolved.. . . Full story
14/12 Banco Espirito Santo's former
finance director is suing the Bank of Portugal and KPMG,
demanding they pay the state 4.3 billion euros ($4.9 billion)
for allegedly falsifying its accounts before the bank's 2014
collapse.. . . Full story
14/12 Copper clocked a third
consecutive weekly fall on Friday after weaker than expected
Chinese industrial data dampened expectations of demand from the
largest metals consumer.. . . Full story
14/12 Italian clothing groups Stefanel
and OVS face an urgent quest to convince
investors that they can overhaul their business models after
trading disappointments.. . . Full story
14/12 Weak economic data from China
sent Britain's top stock index down on Friday as miners,
consumer stocks and banks suffered from investors' mounting
anxiety about the world's second-biggest economy.. . . Full story
14/12 European shares closed lower for
a second day on Friday as weak European and Chinese data renewed
worries about global growth and sent a pan-European benchmark on
course for its worst quarter since 2011.. . . Full story
14/12 Borrowing costs in the euro area
fell on Friday as weak data from the euro zone and China fanned
worries about global growth, a day after the ECB trimmed growth
forecasts and said downside. . . Full story
14/12 British shale gas company
Cuadrilla has paused fracking at its Preston New Road site in
Lancashire, northwest England, for the fourth time since October
following a minor seismic event, it said on Friday.. . . Full story
14/12 Irish Prime Minister Leo
Varadkar said on Friday he wanted to help Prime Minister Theresa
May as much as possible but that EU leaders could not offer her
any guarantees that ran counter to. . . Full story
14/12 Germany's economy minister does
not expect a disorderly Brexit and believes the danger of a
major trade conflict between the European Union and the United
States is not yet over but has also not. . . Full story
14/12 German Finance Minister Olaf
Scholz on Friday lauded positive developments in the German
banking sector in recent months, and said his ministry was not
overly concerned about the future of Deutsche Bank,
Germany's largest bank.. . . Full story
14/12 Huawei faces
fresh challenges in Europe after Germany's Deutsche Telekom
announced it would review its vendor strategy and
Orange said it would not hire the Chinese firm to
build its next-generation network in France.. . . Full story
14/12 British shale gas company
Cuadrilla has paused fracking at its Preston New Road site in
Lancashire, northwest England, after tremor of magnitude 0.9 was
detected, the company said.. . . Full story
14/12 Around $150 millions' worth of
oil was stolen from Shell's biggest global refinery over several
years, Singapore court documents reviewed by Reuters show, far
more than reported when police first revealed the heist earlier
this. . . Full story
14/12 London Stock Exchange Group Plc
said on Friday Chairman Donald Brydon would be replaced by
Donald Robert, chairman of the world's biggest credit data firm
Experian Plc.. . . Full story
14/12 Canadian copper producer Imperial
Metals has hired Bank of Montreal (BMO) to speed up a
restructuring process that could include the sale of the company
for up to $1 billion, two sources familiar with. . . Full story
14/12 Swiss Finance Minister Ueli
Maurer played down on Friday the impact of a European Commission
proposal to extend recognition of Swiss stock trading rules for
just six months in a row over a new. . . Full story
14/12 The French government is seeking
candidates to replace Renault's embattled boss Carlos
Ghosn, as some board members began to voice doubts about keeping
him in office after his indictment in Japan for suspected
misconduct, several. . . Full story
14/12 Croatian energy group INA's
biggest refinery, located in the northern Adriatic
port of Rijeka, will undergo a planned maintenance from January
to mid-April next year, the company said on Friday.. . . Full story
14/12 The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said
on Friday its draft budget for 2019 was slightly lower than last
year, blaming the dip on the watchdog's forced relocation from
London to Amsterdam because of Brexit.. . . Full story
14/12 The Norwegian government has
postponed a decision on whether to mandate the construction of
an oil processing terminal near the Arctic tip of northern
Europe until the third quarter of next year, it said. . . Full story
14/12 A survey taken after a corruption
scandal suggests that Poles have little trust in the state - a
warning sign for the Law and Justice (PiS) party, which won
power in 2015 partly on. . . Full story
14/12 Lufthansa is in
early talks about a possible tie-up between its LSG Group
catering unit with partners such as Austria's Do&Co,
Singapore's SATS and Switzerland's Gategroup, people
close to the matter said.. . . Full story
14/12 Oil loadings have resumed at
Russia's Afipsky refinery, pipeline monopoly Transneft
said on Friday, after top lender Sberbank
provided a credit line to the Afipsky and Antipinsky refineries.. . . Full story
14/12 Delegates at U.N.
climate talks in the Polish city of Katowice point to the mining
museum next to the conference venue as the proper place for
coal, which provides 80 percent of the country's. . . Full story
14/12 Renault's board did not
consider replacing Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn when it met on
Thursday, interim chairman Philippe Lagayette said in a
statement issued by the carmaker.. . . Full story
14/12 Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte
sought to convince European Union leaders on Friday that his
offer to cut Italy's deficit target for next year should make an
EU disciplinary procedure unnecessary.. . . Full story
14/12 Palmali, one of the biggest
players in Russia's river-to-sea cargo market, plans to appeal
against a court decision declaring its Russian business bankrupt
and effectively handing its fleet over to Sberbank, the shipping
firm's owner. . . Full story
14/12 India's top court rejected
petitions on Friday seeking an investigation of fighter jet deal
worth about $8.7 billion with France's Dassault Aviation
, handing a political victory to the ruling party
months before a general. . . Full story
14/12 Euro zone banks will repay 3.1
billion euros ($3.5 billion) of ultra cheap funding to the
European Central Bank early, returning only a fraction of their
borrowings ahead of schedule, the ECB said on. . . Full story
14/12 Euro zone businesses ended the
year in a gloomy mood, expanding their operations at the slowest
pace in over four years as new order growth all but dried up,
hurt by trade tensions and. . . Full story
14/12 Thyssenkrupp moved
on Friday to fill key management positions, preparing for the
spin off its capital goods business after a tumultuous year that
saw the resignation of the conglomerate's top leadership.. . . Full story
14/12 London Stock Exchange Group said
on Friday its stake in its clearing house LCH had risen to 82.6
percent, as it closed the acquisition of an additional 14.6
percent from some minority shareholders for. . . Full story
14/12 The Italian government is happy it
could lower its deficit target for next year, Deputy Prime
Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Friday, although he also said
that economic growth may be smaller than. . . Full story
14/12 German public sector bank
Helaba is buying the German unit of Franco-Belgian lender Dexia
for 352 million euros ($398 million), the lenders said in a
joint statement on Friday.. . . Full story
14/12 Coal railway workers at
Australian hauler Aurizon Holdings Ltd have postponed
some planned strikes in Queensland, a union official said, as a
cyclone is forecast to bring poor weather near some of the
affected railways.. . . Full story
14/12 Shares in Poland's troubled Getin
Noble Bank (GNB) rose 11 percent on Friday, after it
said it would look for a financial investor.. . . Full story
14/12 Austria's economic growth will
hold steady this year at 2.7 percent, supported by strong
domestic demand and exports, then slow markedly in 2019, the
country's central bank said in its half-yearly economic
forecasts on Friday.. . . Full story
14/12 Germany's private sector expansion
slowed to a four-year low in December, a survey showed on
Friday, suggesting growth in Europe's largest economy may be
weak in the final quarter.. . . Full story
14/12 Jet Airways Ltd's
69-year-old founder Naresh Goyal, who started out as an
assistant in a travel agency, wove together charm, persistence
and consummate dealmaking to build India's biggest full-service
carrier.. . . Full story
14/12 Russian pipeline monopoly
Transneft expects Russia's oil output to rise by
about 2 million tonnes next year, RIA news agency cited the
company's head, Nikolai Tokarev, as saying on Friday.. . . Full story
14/12 French business activity plunged
unexpectedly into contraction this month, retreating at the
fastest pace in over four years in the face of violent
anti-government protests, a monthly survey showed on Friday.. . . Full story
14/12 British construction group Balfour Beatty
Plc on Friday said it expects to report full-year
profit above its earlier expectations, getting a boost on the
proceeds from the sale of an infrastructure investment this
month.. . . Full story
14/12 Interdealer broker TP ICAP said
on Friday former JPMorgan Chase executive Richard
Berliand would join as chairman-designate early next year,
taking over from Rupert Robson, who is set to retire after 12
years on the. . . Full story
14/12 Slovenia's largest fuel
retailer Petrol expects its 2019 group net profit to
rise to 96.7 million euros ($110 million) from an expected 86.9
million this year, mainly due to higher sales, the company said
in. . . Full story
14/12 Asian spot prices for
liquefied natural gas (LNG) snapped a three-week losing streak
to end higher this week, with the onset of winter expected to
boost demand for natural gas for heating.. . . Full story
14/12 Growth in Germany, Europe's
biggest economy, will slow in the coming years, the Bundesbank
said on Friday, cutting its forecasts in a biannual review after
a string of disappointing data in recent months.. . . Full story
14/12 Sweden's Intrum said on Friday it will
buy Banco Sabadell's real estate servicer Solvia for
an enterprise value of about 300 million euros ($340.62
million), aimed at strengthening its position in the Spanish
market.. . . Full story
14/12 Slovenia's largest fuel
retailer Petrol sees 2019 group net profit at 96.7
million euros ($109.7 million) versus 86.9 million euros planned
this year, the company said in a statement on Friday.. . . Full story
13/12 Abiove, a
Brazil-based association of oilseeds traders, is proposing the
creation of a fund to reward farmers who can preserve native
vegetation on their soy farms in the Cerrado region, Brazil's
tropical savanna.. . . Full story
13/12 The French economy is set to grow
slightly less than previously expected this and next year, the
central bank said on Thursday, warning the longer protests which
have swept the country drag on the. . . Full story
13/12 Troubled low-cost African carrier Fastjet
Plc said on Thursday it had enough cash to operate
until Dec. 21 and that it had met the conditions for an open
offer and equity refinancing to raise. . . Full story
13/12 The European Commission and
Italy are working to reach a deal quickly on the country's 2019
budget, the two sides said on Thursday, after Rome offered to
cut its deficit target to avoid disciplinary. . . Full story
13/12 A U.N. survey of governments'
investment regulations has found 30 percent of measures adopted
in the first ten months of this year were a tightening of
regulations, the highest figure since 2010.. . . Full story
13/12 Brazil's President Michel Temer
signed a temporary decree on Thursday lifting a 20 percent limit
on foreign investment in Brazilian airlines and allowing total
ownership by external capital.. . . Full story
13/12 Italy's surprise decision to
sharply cut its budget deficit goal does little to address the
problems of its finances or a deeper debate over EU fiscal
rules, but may serve the real purpose of. . . Full story
13/12 Standard Chartered Plc has laid
off over 200 employees in India in its retail banking division,
as more customers move to digital services, a person familiar
with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.. . . Full story
13/12 Copper hit its highest in more
than a week on Thursday after U.S.-China trade tensions eased,
but gains were capped due to persistent worries about Chinese
demand and global growth.. . . Full story
13/12 Shareholders and a major union
expressed scepticism on Thursday about speculation of a merger
between Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank.. . . Full story
13/12 Britain's Brexit-sensitive
domestic stocks fell on Thursday as investors decided Prime
Minister Theresa May's victory in a leadership challenge
clarified little in the country's protracted divorce from the
European Union.. . . Full story
13/12 Renault said on Thursday
an audit launched in the wake of Chairman and CEO Carlos Ghosn's
arrest in Japan had so far found no irregularities with his pay
at the French carmaker.. . . Full story
13/12 Sports Direct owner Mike
Ashley said trading in November was "unbelievably bad", sending
shares in the retailer down nearly 20 percent and adding to a
wider sense of gloom hanging over British high streets. . . Full story
13/12 Britain's Unite union on Thursday
recommended that 2,500 of its members covered by the Offshore
Contractors Association (OCA) accept a new pay offer, averting
the threat of a strike that could have affected 106. . . Full story
13/12 Hungarian savings and loans
group Takarek plans to close up to 300 branches and
launch a large lending drive in a bid to turn its fragmented
business into a competitive universal bank, its chief. . . Full story
13/12 Huawei's relations with British
authorities hit a low last month when a top official walked out
of a meeting with the Chinese company over its perceived failure
to fix security holes in its products,. . . Full story
13/12 Private equity-backed oil firm
Chrysaor has hired advisers ahead of talks to buy Chevron's
British North Sea oil and gas fields for over $2.5
billion, industry and banking sources said.. . . Full story
13/12 Green energy is on track to
overtake coal as Germany's main power source this year, with
renewables set to cover a record 38 percent of the country's
electricity consumption, two percent up from 2017,. . . Full story
13/12 Georgia will increase spending
next year when it expects the economy to grow by 4.5 percent,
according to the 2019 budget passed by parliament on Thursday.. . . Full story
13/12 Italy's government will cut "a few
billion" euros from its two main reforms in order to hit the new
deficit target it proposed to the European Commission, Deputy
Industry Minister Dario Galli said on. . . Full story
13/12 G4S plans to separate
its 1.2 billion pound ($1.5 billion) a year cash business, it
said on Thursday, sending shares in the world's biggest security
company 8 percent higher.. . . Full story
13/12 The European Central Bank
maintained on Thursday its long-standing assessment that risks
to growth remain "broadly balanced", but acknowledged that
downside elements were becoming more prominent.. . . Full story
13/12 The European Central Bank cut
its growth forecasts and tweaked inflation projections on
Thursday after the euro zone economy dipped more than expected
in the second half of the year, ECB President Mario Draghi. . . Full story
13/12 The head of the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development has been cleared of wrongdoing by
an external investigation into claims by several member states
that the lender inappropriately gathered information on some of
their. . . Full story
13/12 The European Central Bank
decided on Thursday to formally end its 2.6 trillion euro ($2.95
trillion) bond purchase scheme but said it would keep
reinvesting cash from maturing bonds for a long time after. . . Full story
13/12 Olga
Petikova first borrowed a few hundred dollars in the 1990s to
furnish her young family's apartment. Later, she turned to
payday loans to make ends meet as her husband struggled to make
his new. . . Full story
13/12 Icelandic low-cost carrier
WOW air, which is in talks with U.S. private equity fund Indigo
Partners about a potential investment, said on Thursday it would
reduce its fleet to 11 aircraft from twenty and. . . Full story
13/12 Ukraine expects to receive a first
loan tranche from the International Monetary Fund worth between
$1.4 billion and $1.9 billion before Christmas, Central Bank
Governor Yakiv Smoliy told a news conference on Thursday.. . . Full story
13/12 Fiat Chrysler (FCA) could review
its 5 billion euro ($5.7 billion) Italian investment plan, which
includes a shift to cleaner engines, if Rome raises taxes on
petrol and diesel cars.. . . Full story
13/12 De Beers and Vast Resources will be allowed to explore for diamonds in Zimbabwe, which would make them the first listed companies to mine there in that sector for two years,. . . Full story
13/12 GAM Holding AG
said it would cut 10 percent of its staff and ditch its dividend
as it warned it would slide to a net loss this year, sending
shares in the Swiss asset. . . Full story
13/12 Short-dated Italian bond yields
hit their lowest level in six months on Thursday after Rome
confirmed it would cut its deficit goal for 2019, potentially
ending months of wrangling with Brussels.. . . Full story
13/12 Germany's Ifo institute slashed
its growth forecasts for Europe's biggest economy, saying
problems affecting the car industry would last until 2019 and
trade conflicts and Brexit were also hurting business.. . . Full story
13/12 Italian construction group Salini
Impregilo and Japan's IHI Corporation have made
non-binding bids for troubled Italian builder Astaldi,
a source said on Thursday citing a document.. . . Full story
13/12 France's expected overshooting
next year of the European Union's 3-percent of GDP deficit
ceiling could be tolerated if it is temporary, the EU's economic
commissioner Pierre Moscovici said on Thursday.. . . Full story
13/12 Serco expects revenue
to start to grow for the first time in six years in 2019 as it
finally starts to reap the rewards of an overhaul but the
British outsourcer asked investors to. . . Full story
13/12 Foreigners were net sellers of Japanese
stocks in the week ended Dec. 7, as domestic shares tracked
sharp losses in U.S. equities amid lingering trade tensions
after the arrest in Canada of a top. . . Full story
13/12 A European Union court upheld
on Thursday a complaint by the city authorities of Paris,
Brussels and Madrid against an EU rule change on vehicle
emissions they said had increased pollution, and it partly
overturned. . . Full story
13/12 French drinks group Pernod Ricard
, which is being targeted by activist hedge fund
Elliott, said on Thursday it was on track to achieve its
medium-term goal of mid-single digit sales growth in the. . . Full story
13/12 The German economy remains on a
growth track due to strong domestic demand, but the upswing is
being slowed down by a difficult trade environment and temporary
effects in the automobile sector, the Economy. . . Full story
13/12 Bonmarche shares sank 50 percent
on Thursday after the women's fashion chain said it could report
losses this year as it was faring much worse than during the
2008-09 financial crisis after thin shopping. . . Full story
13/12 French energy company Total
said it has agreed to sell a 4 percent stake in its
Australian Ichthys liquefied natural gas (LNG) project to
Japanese partner Inpex for $1.6 billion, following cost
overruns.. . . Full story
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