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Japan’s COVID-19 booster shots to be open to anyone fully vaccinated -Jiji
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's health ministry said it has decided to offer COVID-19 booster shots to anyone who has already received two vaccine doses, news agency Jiji reported on Thursday. Japan had ini...
Oct 28, 2021
Volkswagen CEO: we will keep up with Tesla but not without cuts
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen Chief Executive Herbert Diess on Thursday said he was confident that Europe's largest carmaker could keep up with Tesla, but added this would require further cost cuts...
Oct 28, 2021
Huawei spin-off brand Honor enters top three in China shipment ranking -research
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Honor, the Chinese smartphone brand spun out of Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, saw shipments soar in the latest quarter to become the country's third-ranked brand, said research firm...
Oct 28, 2021
Switzerland’s Pictet, Bangkok Bank form wealth management alliance
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Pictet Group and Bangkok Bank PCL on Thursday said they have formed a wealth management strategic alliance for the bank's clients in Thailand. Pictet, the Geneva-based wealth and...
Oct 28, 2021
La Banque Postale moves to take full control of insurer CNP
PARIS (Reuters) -The banking arm of French mail operator La Poste is planning to buy banking group BPCE's stake in French insurer CNP, the companies said on Thursday, and then plans to make an offer t...
Oct 28, 2021
Energy costs push Spain’s inflation to 29-year-high
(Reuters) - Spain's inflation surged to a 29-year-high in October as national consumer prices rose 5.5% year-on-year, flash data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) showed on Thursday. Inflat...
Oct 28, 2021
Swedish Q3 GDP growth better than expected, preliminary data shows
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's economy grew more quickly than expected in the third quarter, as a vaccine rollout accelerated and COVID-19 curbs were lifted, a preliminary estimate from the Statistics...
Oct 28, 2021
Telecom Italia slides to one-year low after cutting guidance
MILAN (Reuters) - Shares in Telecom Italia (TIM) fell as much as 7.9% on Thursday to an almost one-year low after Italy's biggest telecoms group further cut its 2021 core profit guidance to reflect wo...
Oct 28, 2021
Ryanair vows 5-day refund turnaround after COVID criticism
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ryanair on Thursday vowed to repay customers within five days for cancelled flights in a renewed customer service push after criticism about how it handled refunds at the height of ...
Oct 28, 2021
Chinese developer Kaisa Group’s shares fall on ratings downgrade
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Shares of Chinese developer Kaisa Group lost nearly a fifth of their value on Thursday and its bonds fell after rating agency downgrades that highlighted the company's limited ac...
Oct 28, 2021
