MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s anti-monopoly regulator FAS has approved Bayer’s takeover of Monsanto , Russian news agency Interfax reported on Friday, citing the regulator.READ Russia gives green light to Bayer's takeover of Monsanto: Ifax On Reuters...
Authored by Saxo Bank, Head of Macro Strategy, Christopher Dembik via TradingFloor.com, The rosy “strong euro area growth” narrative is done. As a result of a lower than expected ZEW index (-8.2 points in April versus 5.1 points in March), Citi Economic Surprise Index for the Eurozone is sinking further into negative territory, reaching its lowest level since 2012. The index is currently the worst ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump invited his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to the United States during a phone call, and said he would be glad to see Putin in the White House, RIA Novosti reported on Friday, citing the Russian Foreign Ministry....
Via GEFIRA, Europe’s native population is not just aging, it is disappearing. The political and financial establishments rely on false official projections. Despite the UN Population Division prognoses that fertility rates will soon rebound to replacement rates, such a phenomenon is nowhere to be seen. In all European countries native populations have extremely low fertility and they are in full decline, and there are no ...
SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) – China Huarong Asset Management Co confirmed its chairman Lai Xiaomin, who is under investigation for alleged corruption, had stepped down, sparking an 11 percent tumble in shares of the nation’s biggest bad debt manager on Friday.READ ...
In 2002, David Attenborough was named among the 100 Greatest Britons by a BBC poll. And as Statista’s Niall McCarthy notes, the veteran broadcaster and naturalist is still the most admired man in the UK, according to a new YouGov survey. Widely considered a national treasure in Britain, Attenborough had an admiration score of 16.6 percent, ahead of Barack Obama’s 12.3 percent. ...
LONDON (Reuters) – British regulators have concluded efforts of Barclays chief executive Jes Staley to unmask a whistleblower at the bank represented a breach of individual conduct and proposed he pay an undisclosed fine, the bank said on Friday.READ British ...
TOKYO (Reuters) – U.S. defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp plans to offer Japan a stealth fighter design based on its export-banned F-22 Raptor and advanced F-35 Lightning II aircraft, two sources said.READ Exclusive: Lockheed Martin to propose stealthy hybrid of F-22 ...
April or August? You could be forgiven for getting it wrong, given scenes of sunbathing in the Netherlands, bare-chested jogging in Germany and ice creams being scoffed in France! Summer has arrived early in Europe where people are enjoying the great outdoors after a long, hard winter. In Paris, almost 29 degrees Celsius was reached on ...
TOKYO (Reuters) – Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd shares lost almost 5 percent of their value on Friday as investors fretted over the size of any deal the Japanese firm would have to make to seal its record-breaking purchase of London-listed Shire PLC.READ ...
Two passenger trains crashed while being coupled together in Salzburg early on Friday, leaving about 40 people slightly injured, according to police. The incident occurred at the Austrian city’s main station at about 4.45 am local time, a police spokesman said. One of the trains slammed too hard into another from Zurich as they were ...
LONDON (Reuters) – Martin Sorrell’s departure from the world’s biggest advertising company heralds change for his sprawling WPP empire and may accelerate a shake up of the big ad groups that followed his lead.READ End of Sorrell's reign heralds change for ...
Authored by Eric Zuesse via The Strategic Culture Foundation, On Sunday April 15th, Britain’s Guardian bannered “OPCW inspectors set to investigate site of Douma chemical attack” and pretended that there was no question that a chemical attack in Douma Syria on April 7th had actually occurred, and the article then went further along that same propaganda-line, to accuse Syria’s Government of having perpetrated it. This ‘news’ story opened [and ...
LONDON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – Procter & Gamble’s $4.2 billion deal for Merck’s vitamin and supplements business is the latest example of a major consumer company stocking up on health-related products.READ P&G's vitamin boost could signal more to come On Reuters...
