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By Ron Bousso and Shadia Nasralla LONDON (Reuters) – BP more than doubled its third-quarter profit from a year earlier to $8.15 billion and expanded its share buybacks by $2.5 …

By Nivedita Balu (Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc on Tuesday forecast fourth-quarter operating profit above Wall Street estimates, betting on cost controls and rising demand for its rides as customers …

By Praveen Menon SYDNEY (Reuters) – BHP Group Ltd, the world’s biggest miner by market value, said on Wednesday that inflationary pressures would remain a challenge next year, but that …

(Reuters) -Newmont Corp’s chief executive assured investors that inflationary pressures were abating and should help the gold miner improve performance in the current quarter, after lower gold prices and surging …

By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) – A little more than a year after a trading controversy rattled the Federal Reserve’s standing in Washington and beyond, new ethics missteps …

(Reuters) -Tesla Inc boss Elon Musk said on Monday he will serve as chief executive of Twitter, the social media company he just bought for $44 billion, a move that …

By Julie Gordon and Anna Mehler Paperny OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada plans to welcome a record 500,000 new permanent residents in 2025 and has boosted its targets over the next two …

By Manas Mishra and Michael Erman (Reuters) -Pfizer Inc on Tuesday raised its forecast for 2022 sales of its COVID-19 vaccine by $2 billion to $34 billion, and said new …

By Shreyashi Sanyal and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) -European shares gained on Tuesday, starting November on an upbeat note amid growing hopes that the U.S. Federal Reserve would slow down the …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The federal government should take action to rein in online media platform TikTok Inc, one of the U.S. FCC’s commissioners said in an interview, Axios reported on …

By Arunima Kumar (Reuters) -Marathon Petroleum and Phillips 66 posted quarterly profits which cruised past Wall Street estimates on Tuesday, becoming the latest U.S. refiners to benefit from robust fuel …

By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Education technology company Chegg Inc agreed to bolster its data protections as part of a consent agreement reached with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), …

By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK(Reuters) -Private equity firm KKR & Co Inc’s after-tax distributable earnings fell 11% in the third quarter from a year earlier on a steep drop in …

By Hyunjoo Jin (Reuters) – Elon Musk has championed Tesla Inc’s driver assistance Autopilot and “Full Self-Driving” software as innovations that will both improve road safety and position the electric …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. and Chinese officials are still working to arrange a face-to-face meeting between President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Bali …

By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – Republican candidates in the Nov. 8 general election are attacking Democrats for what they say is a dramatic spike in crime under Democratic President Joe …

By Soo-hyang Choi and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea moved to calm public outrage on Tuesday over a Halloween party crush that killed more than 150 people, most of …

By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen and Nikolaj Skydsgaard COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Danes went the polls on Tuesday with Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen hoping for a vote of confidence in her handling of the …

By Mahmoud Salama CAIRO (Reuters) – The gap between the official and black market price of dollars in Egypt has narrowed significantly since the central bank announced a flexible exchange …

ATHENS (Reuters) -The Greek coast guard was searching for dozens of migrants believed to be missing after their boat sank off the island of Evia during bad weather early on …

(Reuters) – Canadian miner Turquoise Hill Resources Ltd said on Tuesday it would delay by a week to Nov. 8 a special shareholder meeting to vote on a proposed takeover …

By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England passed a major milestone on Tuesday when it held its first auction to sell some of the 875 billion pounds …

By Maximilian Heath BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s government is set to announce measures, potentially within days, to allow wheat exporters to delay agreed shipments after a major drought hammered …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian energy giant Rosneft said on Tuesday that international major BP should rethink its decision to leave Russia and return to its operations in the country, promising …