Teen hero relives Moscow concert horror as mother worries about him
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Teenage cloakroom attendant Artem Donskov helped people flee to safety when gunmen stormed a concert hall near Moscow last month. Now his mother is trying to get him to…
India’s May factory activity remained strong despite inflation worries
BENGALURU – India’s factory activity expanded at a better-than-expected pace last month as overall demand remained resilient despite persistently high inflation, encouraging firms to hire at the fastest rate since January 2020,…
European stocks fall as rate hike worries seep back in
By Sruthi Shankar (Reuters) -European stocks slumped on Thursday, with most cyclical parts of the market coming back down, a day after U.S. inflation data fuelled worries about the impact of rising…
HelloFresh soothes investor worries with Q1 beat
(Reuters) – German meal-kit maker HelloFresh reported better-than-expected first-quarter revenues and core earnings, sending its shares soaring and easing investor worries about its full-year guidance. In preliminary results just before the market…
U.S. small business sentiment ebbs as inflation worries mount -NFIB
WASHINGTON – U.S. small business confidence fell in March, with the share of owners reporting that inflation was their single most important problem the largest since 1981, a survey showed on Tuesday.…
Spain consumer goods sales rise on worries over supply amid Ukraine war
MADRID – Sales of consumer goods rose 13% in Spain in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as supply concerns, exacerbated by a partial transport strike, prompted shoppers to stock up…
Investors dump emerging market funds on slowdown worries
By Patturaja Murugaboopathy and Gaurav Dogra – Mutual funds that invest in emerging market (EM) equities and bonds have faced huge outflows over the past month, as the intensifying Russia-Ukraine crisis spawns…
Wall Street worries that Fed was behind the curve on inflation
– Wall Street analysts and investors who believe the U.S. Fed Reserve has acted too slowly to combat high inflation are now forecasting even more aggressive rate hikes as the central bank…
Nutrien to increase potash production amid Eastern Europe supply worries
– Canada’s Nutrien Ltd, the world’s biggest fertilizer producer, said on Wednesday it plans to increase potash output by nearly 1 million tonnes this year to about 15 million tonnes in response…
Plains drought to curb U.S. wheat harvest, adding to global supply worries
By Karl Plume – A worsening drought in the southern U.S. Plains is threatening the region’s winter wheat crop just as the Ukraine crisis dents global supplies. Some farmers in southwestern Kansas,…
Palladium firms near record, gold accelerates as Ukraine worries mount
By Bharat Gautam – Palladium hovered marginally below an all-time peak in volatile trading on Tuesday as the Russia-Ukraine crisis fuelled worries of a supply squeeze of the metal, while safe-haven gold…
Alaska worries for its salmon run as climate change warms Arctic waters
By Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska – With marine heat waves helping to wipe out some of Alaska’s storied salmon runs in recent years, officials have resorted to sending emergency food shipments to…
Italy makes fresh attempt at pension reform as debt worries mount
By Giuseppe Fonte and Gavin Jones ROME – Italy is working on a reform to make it easier for workers to retire early without bloating what is already Europe’s second highest pensions…
Analysis-Yuan wobbles revive worries about Asia’s vulnerabilities
By Tom Westbrook and Harish Sridharan SINGAPORE/BENGALURU – The Chinese yuan’s recoil from a near four-year high has raised market nerves that a recent period of stability is ending, which could leave…
French consumer confidence dips in January over inflation worries
PARIS – French consumer confidence dipped in January, an official statistics survey showed, as concerns over inflation weighed on the euro zone’s second biggest economy. Consumer confidence slipped to 99 points from…
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