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Olive Garden parent Darden Restaurants raises annual sales forecast
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Exclusive-Nornickel in talks with Xiamen C&D to shift copper smelting to China
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Taiwan's China Airlines splits $12-billion jet deal between Boeing and Airbus
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Northern Ireland unionists to trigger 'Stormont Brake' for first time
Moldova's president blames Russia's Gazprom for energy crisis
Date: December 19, 2024
By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) - President Maia Sandu on Thursday accused Gazprom of provoking an energy crisis in Moldova, saying the Russian energy giant was refusing to supply gas through an...
Spain's utilities tax suffers defeat in parliament
Date: December 19, 2024
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish lawmakers on Thursday voted to eliminate a temporary tax on energy companies in a setback for the minority government that still plans to reimpose the levy by decree,...
Italy probes CK Hutchison unit on tax in 3.4 billion euro asset sale, Bloomberg News reports
Date: December 19, 2024
(Reuters) - CK Hutchison Holdings's Italian telecommunications unit is the target of a probe alleging that it evaded taxes during a 3.4-billion-euro ($3.52 billion) asset sale to Cellnex Telecom SA,...
German parliament passes tax relief to offset inflation
Date: December 19, 2024
BERLIN (Reuters) - German lawmakers passed a taxation reform on Thursday to combat the burden on households caused by higher inflation, with approval secured by the votes of the former coalition...
Behind a potential Honda and Nissan tie-up, the existential threat posed by Chinese EVs
Date: December 19, 2024
By Kantaro Komiya, Yoshifumi Takemoto TOKYO (Reuters) -Some unions are born of necessity, others from convenience. In the case of Honda and Nissan’s potential merger, it is mostly defensive as Chinese rivals take the world by storm. While the challenge from China’s seemingly boundless EV expertise looms large for all traditional automakers, for Japan it...
Italy's Banco BPM strikes deal with unions on 550 hirings, 1,100 early retirements
Date: December 19, 2024
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's Banco BPM has struck a deal with trade unions on 550 new hirings in exchange for 1,110 voluntary early retirements, the FABI banking sector union said on Thursday. (Reporting...