Category Archives: (Midwest Communications, Inc. Syndication Interface) Business News (Master Feed)
Dollar drifts toward monthly loss as Fed bets ease
By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The dollar nursed last week's losses on Monday and was headed for its first monthly drop in five months as investors have scaled back bets that rising U.S. rates...
May 29, 2022
Asia stocks edge higher, dollar in the doldrums
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian stocks followed Wall Street higher on Monday while the dollar was pinned near five-week lows as investors wagered on an eventual slowdown in U.S. monetary tighte...
May 29, 2022
Trinidad and Tobago in talks with Quanten LLC for refinery sale -minister
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - Trinidad and Tobago is in talks with U.S.-based Quanten LLC for the sale of the country's refinery, Energy Minister Stuart Young said on Sunday, more than a year after the go...
May 29, 2022
AGL Energy shelves demerger plans, chairman & CEO to step down
(Reuters) - Australia's AGL Energy said on Monday that it would not proceed with the planned demerger of its operations due to mounting opposition from shareholders, led by its top shareholder Mike Ca...
May 29, 2022
Australian regulator sues ANZ over alleged overstatement of account balances
(Reuters) - Australia's market regulator on Monday said it had commenced civil penalty proceedings against Australia and New Zealand Banking Group for allegedly misleading its customers with respect t...
May 29, 2022
Zero-COVID, big money: China’s anti-virus spending boosts medical, tech, construction
By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) - China's 'zero-COVID' policy of constantly monitoring, testing and isolating its citizens to prevent the spread of the coronavirus has battered much of the count...
May 29, 2022
Foxtons replaces CEO amid rising pressure from activist investors – Sky News
(Reuters) - London-based real estate agent Foxtons Group has decided to appoint rival Chestertons' CEO Guy Gittins as its new CEO, Sky News reported on Sunday. Gittins will take over from Nic Budden i...
May 29, 2022
VW says taking Brazil human rights probe seriously
BERLIN (Reuters) - German carmaker Volkswagen said on Sunday it was taking seriously an investigation by Brazil's public prosecutors into alleged human rights violations in the country as reported by ...
May 29, 2022
High UK inflation hastens ‘real living wage’ announcement
LONDON (Reuters) - The charity that sets Britain's "real living wage", a voluntary pay rate adopted by thousands of employers, said on Sunday it will bring forward the announcement for the 2022/23 rat...
May 29, 2022
U.S. EPA approves emergency fuel waiver in Texas after refinery outage
(Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an emergency air-quality waiver through June 6 to boost supplies of gasoline in East Texas after production was cut at a regional refi...
May 29, 2022
