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Burkina Faso suspends French news channel over insurgency report
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's military government has suspended a French television news channel for a report on a jihadist insurgency which it said lacked objectivity and credibility, the la...
Jun 30, 2023
Bausch + Lomb to buy Novartis dry-eye drug for $1.75 billion – WSJ
(Reuters) -Bausch + Lomb Corp will purchase a dry-eye drug from Swiss pharma company Novartis for $1.75 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, as the contact lens maker seeks to capitali...
Jun 30, 2023
China raises relending, rediscounting quotas for farm sector, small firms by $27.5 billion
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's central bank said on Friday it will increase its relending and rediscount quotas by 200 billion yuan ($27.53 billion) to support the farm sector and small firms, amid falte...
Jun 30, 2023
As the Libor era ends, market participants hope for ‘crickets’
By John McCrank and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) - The last rates based on the tarnished London Interbank Offer Rate, or Libor, were published on Friday, marking a mostly quiet end of a...
Jun 30, 2023
In parched Uruguay, tensions rise as water levels fall
CANELONES, Uruguay (Reuters) - At the Canelon Grande Reservoir, a major source of water for Uruguay's thirsty capital Montevideo, water levels have been so low for so long that grass now covers much o...
Jun 30, 2023
Global equity funds draw inflows on economic growth hopes
(Reuters) - Global investors turned net buyers of equity funds in the week to June 28 as solid economic readings fuelled hopes of U.S. growth, while China's policy measures to bolster its economy furt...
Jun 30, 2023
Buyout fund Apollo makes $1.33 billion bid for Spain’s Applus
MADRID (Reuters) - American buyout fund Apollo on Friday filed a tender offer for 100% of the shares of Spanish industrial testing company Applus Services in a transaction that values the company at 1...
Jun 30, 2023
Investors pour most money into Japan stocks since 2020-BofA
LONDON (Reuters) - Japanese equity funds have had $7.9 billion of inflows in the past four weeks, the most in a four-week period since April 2020, a report from Bank of America Global Research said. F...
Jun 30, 2023
Ukraine pressed to restore anti-corruption disclosure requirement lifted for war
By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine is under pressure from international lenders and watchdogs at home to re-impose a requirement that officials publicly declare their assets, a pillar of its an...
Jun 30, 2023
Cycling-Tour de France beefs up security to foil potential disruption on the road
By Julien Pretot BILBAO, Spain (Reuters) - Two motorbikes from the French gendarmerie's intervention brigade will ride ahead of the Tour de France peloton to prevent protesters from disrupting the rac...
Jun 30, 2023
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