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By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Concern that hedge fund portfolios contain too many of the same trades has shot up the worry list for global investors with hedge fund …

By Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) – Toyota Motor retained its crown as the world’s top-selling automaker for the fourth consecutive year after posting record annual sales of 11.2 million vehicles …

(Reuters) – Sodexo shareholders on Tuesday approved the spin-off of its voucher and benefits division Pluxee, paving the way for its listing on Euronext Paris on Feb. 1. French food …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin, asked on Tuesday about potential U.S. strikes on Iranian interests, said tensions in the Middle East were high and that steps were needed to de-escalate …

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Tuesday his government would do “everything possible” to achieve real income growth to put a decisive end to deflation. “The …

BERLIN (Reuters) -Volkswagen said it was sticking to its financing timeline for battery unit PowerCo to seek a strategic investor this year, after Bloomberg reported that it was pushing back …

By Laura Matthews and Tom Westbrook NEW YORK/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A liquidation order for China’s most debt-laden developer begins a drawn-out process for creditors that is likely to lay bare …

By Pratima Desai LONDON (Reuters) – The London Metal Exchange (LME) is studying Hong Kong as a location to expand its global metal warehouse network, five sources with knowledge of …

By Scott Murdoch, Clare Jim and Xie Yu SYDNEY/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Any liquidation of property giant Evergrande hinges on Chinese authorities recognising the ruling of a Hong Kong court, …

SEOUL (Reuters) – Five of the Bank of Korea’s (BOK) six board members think monetary policy needs to stay restrictive for some time to bring inflation down to its 2% …

By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) – British grocery price inflation declined at a slower rate in January as the proportion of items purchased on promotion dropped compared to December, industry …

By Khanh Vu HANOI (Reuters) -Vietnam and the Philippines agreed on Tuesday to boost cooperation between their coastguards and to prevent untoward incidents in the South China Sea, in an …

By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) -Two days after a man called in a fake emergency at the South Carolina home of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, she was targeted by a …

(Reuters) -The first human patient has received an implant from brain-chip startup Neuralink on Sunday and is recovering well, the company’s billionaire founder Elon Musk said. “Initial results show promising …

By Gergely Szakacs, Jason Hovet and Maria Martinez BUDAPEST/PRAGUE (Reuters) – The sickly state of the German economy is the next big challenge for the export-reliant countries of central Europe, …

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A batch of newly released images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope show in remarkable detail 19 spiral galaxies residing relatively near our …

JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said on Tuesday the rupiah exchange rate will remain stable with an upside bias given the pressure from a strong dollar has …

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee An economic data-packed day awaits European markets after a laboured Asia session, where investors were back …

By Jihoon Lee SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s exports likely rose for a fourth straight month in January on growing chip sales, with the headline figure pushed up further by …

By Yoshifumi Takemoto and Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – The Bank of Japan must immediately end its negative interest rate policy as it has allowed companies to delay efforts to …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The chairs of two U.S. House committees asked the Biden administration to investigate four Chinese companies they say are involved in Ford Motor’s planned Michigan …

TAIPEI (Reuters) – Almost half of companies surveyed by the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Taiwan consider geopolitical concerns a deterrence to expanding or investing in the island but …

SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea fired multiple unidentified cruise missiles on Tuesday into the sea off its west coast, South Korea’s military said, the third time Pyongyang has tested cruise missiles …

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) -Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva received a four-year doping ban on Monday, effectively stripping the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) of its gold medal in the …