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Canada's inflation rate accelerates to 2.8% as Iran war pushes up gasoline prices
By Promit Mukherjee OTTAWA, May 19 (Reuters) - Canada's annual inflation rate accelerated to 2.8% in April from 2.4% in March, driven largely by a surge in gasoline prices after the Iran war pushed gl...
May 19, 2026
U.S. Fed to avoid cutting rates this year; economists still say war-driven inflation is transitory: Reuters poll
By Indradip Ghosh BENGALURU, May 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve will avoid cutting interest rates this year, according to most economists polled by Reuters who largely pushed long-held calls ...
May 19, 2026
Epic Games' 'Fortnite' returns to App Stores worldwide
May 19 (Reuters) - Epic Games said on Tuesday its popular shooter title "Fortnite" has returned to global App Stores, as the videogame maker signaled confidence in a favorable outcome from an ongoing ...
May 19, 2026
UK stocks rise as weak jobs data cools rate hike worries
May 19 (Reuters) - UK equities rose on Tuesday after data pointed to a softer labour market that eased worries of an immediate rate hike. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index rose 0.61% as of 11:13 am GMT, wh...
May 19, 2026
Morning Bid: Ceasefire on a knife edge
By Mike Dolan May 19 (Reuters) - What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-at-Large, Finance and Markets Global oil prices, stocks and bond yields levelled off on Tuesday as ...
May 19, 2026
ASML says first chips made with High-NA machines to arrive in months
By Toby Sterling and Nathan Vifflin ANTWERP, May 19 (Reuters) - ASML expects the first chips made with its next-generation High-NA EUV machines to be delivered within months, Chief Executive Christoph...
May 19, 2026
Germany's ZF to keep electric motor production in-house but with fewer staff
BERLIN, May 19 (Reuters) - German auto supplier ZF has opted to keep production of electric motors in-house but hundreds more job cuts will be needed to secure competitiveness, the company said on Tue...
May 19, 2026
Analysis-World awaits new Fed Chair's vision on independence
By Balazs Koranyi and Francesco Canepa FRANKFURT, May 19 (Reuters) - Incoming Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh's suggestion that independence may not extend fully to the Fed's crisis-fighting role ab...
May 19, 2026
US stock futures fall on extended chip losses, inflation worries
By Ragini Mathur and Utkarsh Hathi May 19 (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures declined on Tuesday, dragged lower by a slide in chip stocks and ongoing inflation concerns despite a pause in the Treasu...
May 19, 2026
Explainer-What are Samsung union workers demanding and how might a strike play out?
SEOUL, May 19 (Reuters) - South Korean memory chip maker Samsung Electronics is facing its worst-ever strike, with nearly 48,000 workers threatening to walk off production lines on Thursday for 18 day...
May 19, 2026
