Italy’s Monte dei Paschi says cash call 96.3% covered
By Valentina Za MILAN (Reuters) -Investors in Monte dei Paschi di Siena have taken up 96.3% of the Italian lender’s 2.5 billion euro ($2.4 billion) new share issue, leaving less…
By Valentina Za MILAN (Reuters) -Investors in Monte dei Paschi di Siena have taken up 96.3% of the Italian lender’s 2.5 billion euro ($2.4 billion) new share issue, leaving less…
(Reuters) – European shares opened higher on Friday, with luxury stocks and miners leading the advance on hopes that China will soon ease its strict COVID-19 curbs. The STOXX 600…
By Rae Wee and Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Chinese markets soared and the yuan rose on Friday, with about a trillion dollars added to the value of Chinese stocks in…
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday authorities should be vigilant to any downside risks stemming from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s monetary policy…
SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s military said it scrambled fighter jets after detecting about 180 North Korean military flights north of the two countries’ border over four hours on Friday. The…
By Elwely Elwelly DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran held state-sponsored annual rallies on Friday marking the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran, as the clerical establishment that has ruled the…
(Reuters) – Politics are back on top of financial markets’ agenda with U.S. midterm elections and COP27 getting underway, while U.S. inflation data will provide fresh clues on how elusive…
By Sonali Paul and Jeslyn Lerh SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil climbed on Friday as the dollar eased and supply risks lingered, though recession fears and China’s COVID outbreaks kept a…
By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea has dramatically ramped up missile tests this year and tested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBMs) on Thursday, as part of efforts to…
By Athit Perawongmetha NONG BUA LAMPHU, Thailand (Reuters) – A boat bobbing on the Gulf of Thailand carried the ashes of four-year-old Pattanan Mumklang. Nicknamed “Model”, the chubby-cheeked girl with…
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s State Audit Office has picked PricewaterhouseCoopers forensic partner Ferenc Biro to lead a new anti-graft body to be launched by mid-November as part of efforts to…
By Soo-hyang Choi and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea said it scrambled warplanes in response to 180 North Korean military flights near the countries’ shared border on Friday,…
By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – The United States said this week it has information indicating North Korea is covertly supplying Russia with a “significant” number of artillery shells, in…
By Neil Jerome Morales and Enrico Dela Cruz MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippine central bank said on Friday it was ready to take all further monetary policy actions needed to…
MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippine government will help ensure inflation will be on target-consistent path over the medium term by addressing supply shocks and bottlenecks, Finance Secretary Benjamin Diokno said…
By Ankur Banerjee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Asian equities surged on Friday and were set for their first weekly gain in a month, as renewed hopes that China will relax its…
By Asif Shahzad and Mubasher Bukhari WAZIRABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) – The party of former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was shot and injured in an apparent assassination attempt, said…
By Andreas Rinke and Eduardo Baptista BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday touted the need for greater cooperation between China and Germany amid “times of change and turmoil”…
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee Investors have been looking for just about any positive sign to pick up beaten down Hong…
By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s economy is expected to have slowed markedly in the third quarter as global recession risks hurt external demand while rising inflation and a…
By Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea’s barrage of missiles this week was a vivid illustration of how tracking and intercepting waves of missiles at different altitudes and trajectories…
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya Airways PLC’s pilots will begin a strike on Nov. 5, their union said on Friday, adding that a 14-day notice on the action had ended without…
(Reuters) – Twitter was sued over Elon Musk’s plan to lay off about half of its workforce, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing a class-action lawsuit filed in a San…
By Praveen Menon SYDNEY (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia is considering setting up a new metals and mining stock exchange index as it looks to expand its resources sector to diversify…
By Sumit Khanna MORBI, India (Reuters) – A senior administrative official in the Indian town of Morbi has been suspended by the Gujarat state government following the collapse of a…