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By Matt Tracy (Reuters) – The month is poised to be the busiest January on record for new U.S. corporate bond sales, with two regional banks on Monday adding to …

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Nikkei share average rallied to a fresh 34-year peak on Monday as the U.S. S&P 500’s record-high close on Friday buoyed investor sentiment, …

(Reuters) -The S&P 500 hit an intra-day record high on Friday for the first time in two years, powered by gains in chipmakers and heavyweight technology stocks on optimism around …

TRENTON, NJ – A stroke of luck has hit Passaic County with a single ticket winning the massive $1,754,700 Jersey Cash 5 jackpot. The winning numbers for the Saturday, January …

HAMILTON, OH – Jim Foliano, executive director of Ticket to Hope, is in the midst of a Guinness World Record attempt by playing pinball for a projected 63 consecutive hours. …

LULING, LA – Dale Sanders, nicknamed “Grey Beard,” set a Guinness World Record as the oldest person to paddle the entire length of the Mississippi River. Sanders, 87, completed the …

By Gabriel Araujo SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian planemaker Embraer expects its agricultural aircraft Ipanema to hit record deliveries this year after a positive 2023 driven by the strength of …

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) – The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans to spend more this year than ever before — $8.6 billion — as wider health funding for …

MADRID (Reuters) – Shares in Spanish pharma firm Grifols dropped another 10% on Friday, bringing their weekly loss to nearly 40% after short-seller Gotham City Research accused the Barcelona-based business …

By Gloria Dickie TORONTO (Reuters) – This year has a one-in-three chance of being even hotter than 2023, which was already the world’s hottest on record, scientists from the U.S. …

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s 2023 two-way trade with Russia hit $240 billion, setting yet another new record, Chinese customs data showed on Friday, as the two countries pushed for closer …

By Scott DiSavino (Reuters) – Frigid weather moving into the central U.S. will boost natural gas demand to record highs early next week, according to analysts forecasts, putting power and …

BEIJING (Reuters) – New bank loans in China likely rose in December, bringing 2023 lending to a new record high, a Reuters poll showed, as the central bank keeps policy …

By Lucy Raitano LONDON (Reuters) – Investors ploughed $123.1 billion into cash in the seven days to Wednesday, marking the largest such inflow since March 2023 and a record for …

HELSINKI (Reuters) -Volvo Cars sold a record number of vehicles in 2023, it said on Friday, boosted by electric car demand and stabilising supply chains, but its growth rate eased …

By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – Electric vehicle (EV) sales in Australia hit an all-time high in 2023, according to the country’s automotive association, however light vehicle sales remained dominated …

LONDON (Reuters) – Bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) gathered an annual record of $300 billion of assets under management in 2023, BlackRock said on Wednesday, as investors were lured in by …

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – A record 520,000 migrants crossed the treacherous jungle between Colombia and Panama known as the Darien Gap in 2023, more than double the number reported the …

By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s record 2023 trade surplus may be tough to repeat this year, private economists and government officials agree, as falling interest rates are expected …

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets by Samuel Indyk A rollercoaster 2023 that ended with an equity rally on hopes for rate cuts amid slowing …

By Deep Kaushik Vakil (Reuters) -Gold investors anticipate record high prices next year, when the fundamentals of a dovish pivot in U.S. interest rates, continued geopolitical risk, and central bank …

By Davide Barbuscia NEW YORK (Reuters) – A gauge measuring the borrowing costs on loans between banks and other participants in the U.S. repurchase agreement (repo) market hit its highest …