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Yen weak versus dollar, euro ahead of busy central bank week
By Alun John HONG KONG (Reuters) - The Japanese yen was on the back foot on Monday, ahead of a busy policy-focused week in which inflation will be in the spotlight with a major European Central Bank m...
Jun 05, 2022
Thai central bank to hold rates until end-2022, calls for earlier hike grow louder: Reuters poll
By Devayani Sathyan and Anant Chandak BENGALURU (Reuters) - Thailand's central bank will leave interest rates unchanged at their record low for the rest of the year to support economic recovery, but t...
Jun 05, 2022
Ant Group launches digital bank ANEXT in Singapore
BEIJING (Reuters) - Ant Group, the Chinese financial technology giant controlled by billionaire Jack Ma, said on Monday that it has launched a Singapore-incorporated digital wholesale bank, ANEXT Bank...
Jun 05, 2022
Google told to pay Australian politician $515,000 over defamatory Youtube videos
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian court ordered Google to pay A$715,000 ($515,000) to a former senior lawmaker on Monday after finding that a Youtube star's "relentless, racist, vilificatory, abusive a...
Jun 05, 2022
Asia shares brace for U.S. inflation, euro up on ECB bets
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares made a muted start on Monday as caution gripped ahead of a critical reading on U.S. inflation, while the euro gained on the yen amid wagers the European C...
Jun 05, 2022
Activist investor Carl Icahn drops proxy fight over Kroger’s pig policy – WSJ
(Reuters) - Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is dropping a proxy fight focused on the treatment of pregnant pigs at Kroger Co after losing a similar fight with McDonald's Corp last month, Wall Street J...
Jun 05, 2022
Oil jumps after Saudi Arabia hikes crude prices
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Oil prices rose more than $2 in early trade on Monday after Saudi Arabia raised prices sharply for its crude sales in July, an indicator of how tight supply is even after OPEC+ a...
Jun 05, 2022
Russia’s Rusal launches legal action against Rio Tinto over alumina refinery-report
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Russian aluminium producer Rusal has launched legal action against Rio Tinto seeking to restore access to its 20% share of the alumina produced at a jointly-owned refiner in Queensl...
Jun 05, 2022
UK’s Sainsbury’s faces investor vote on workers pay amid cost of living crisis
By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) - Shareholders in Sainsbury's will get to vote on a resolution at next month's annual meeting calling for Britain's second biggest supermarket group to commit to paying...
Jun 05, 2022
Airline EasyJet cancels around 80 flights
(Reuters) - Low-cost carrier EasyJet cancelled 80 flights on Sunday due to the ongoing challenging operating environment. The European airline, in its statement on Sunday, said it was working to help ...
Jun 05, 2022
