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By David Milliken and Farouq Suleiman LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England raised its key interest rate by a further half-percentage point on Thursday and indicated more hikes were …

By Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Shares in H&M, the world’s second-biggest fashion retailer, fell almost 6% on Thursday as net sales for the September-November quarter failed to match a recent …

LONDON (Reuters) – Central banks in Britain, Norway, Switzerland, the euro zone and the United States have all raised interest rates this week. Many have slowed the pace of their …

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Denmark’s central bank raised its key interest rate by 50 basis points to 1.75% on Thursday, following a rate hike earlier in the day by the European Central …

PARIS (Reuters) – The French economy is set to contract slightly this quarter due to refinery strikes and nuclear reactor outages before activity recovers in the first half of next …

ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece has repaid ahead of schedule 2.7 billion euros ($2.87 billion) of loans owed to euro zone countries under the first bailout it received during its decade-long debt …

LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s economy expanded 2.01% in October compared with the year before, the government’s INEI statistics agency said on Thursday, accelerating its pace of growth after a 1.66% …

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Zimbabwe’s real GDP growth is expected to slow to about 3.5% in 2022 from 8.5% last year, the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday as it concluded its …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. business inventories increased moderately in October, suggesting that businesses were slowing the pace of stock accumulation amid cooling demand and rising recession risks as the Federal …

LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s government approved a one-off subsidy of 240 euros for over a million poor families, whose purchasing power is being hard hit by soaring inflation, Labour Minister …

GENEVA (Reuters) – The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said on Thursday that further strikes on Ukraine’s infrastructure could lead to a serious deterioration of the humanitarian …

ROME (Reuters) – A migrant rescue charity caught up in a diplomatic row between Italy and France last month said on Thursday it urgently needs donations to keep its ship …

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Shares in Brazilian telecom firm Oi SA soared on Thursday after it revealed it was exiting bankruptcy protection, marking the closure of a restructuring process that …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Production at U.S. factories dropped more than expected in November as a decline in the output of motor vehicles offset gains elsewhere, according to data on Thursday, …

By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – United Nations aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Thursday it was unlikely the Black Sea grain deal would be expanded in the near term …

BERLIN (Reuters) – German rail operator Deutsche Bahn does not expect the sale of its Schenker logistics unit to start before the third or fourth quarter of next year given …

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s parliament on Thursday passed a sexual and reproductive health law that allows girls aged 16 and 17 to undergo abortions without parental consent and, in a …

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian state-run oil company Petrobras has reached a deal with oil regulator ANP to pay 780 million reais ($146.38 million) regarding the government’s stake in its …

By Farouq Suleiman and Amanda Ferguson LONDON/BELFAST (Reuters) -National Health Service nurses in Britain staged a strike on Thursday, their first ever national walkout, as a bitter dispute with the …

(This Dec.14 story has been corrected to fix the company name to PineBridge Investments) By Rachel Savage JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Days after launching a bold domestic bond overhaul, Ghana struck …

(Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes opened lower on Thursday as the Federal Reserve’s guidance to stick to protracted policy tightening quelled hopes of the rate-hike cycle ending anytime soon. …

By Jeffrey Dastin, Krystal Hu and Paresh Dave (Reuters) – ChatGPT, the new chatbot that is the talk of Silicon Valley, can spit out haikus, crack jokes in Italian and …

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary’s inflation could peak at an annualised rate of 25%-27% in January or February, Minister of Economic Development Marton Nagy said on Thursday, raising his earlier projection of …

(Reuters) – Manufacturing activity in the U.S. mid-Atlantic region contracted for a fourth straight month in December, but factory operators reported a brighter outlook and said inflation pressures were easing …