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FTSE 100 notches best week in over year
Date: March 18, 2022
By Amal S and Sruthi Shankar (Reuters) -British stocks ended near session highs on Friday, and the blue-chip index clocked its best weekly performance in over a year as investors digested negotiations over the Ukraine-Russia conflict and a dovish outlook from the Bank of England this week. The FTSE 100 closed up 0.3%, while domestically...
Exclusive-Abramovich handed Chelsea director control of firm on day of Ukraine invasion – filings
Date: March 18, 2022
By Andrew MacAskill and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – Russian businessman Roman Abramovich transferred a company he controlled with tens of millions of dollars of investments to a director of English soccer club Chelsea on the day Russia invaded Ukraine, UK corporate filings showed. It was the second time Chelsea owner Abramovich moved assets to...
Balancing Britain’s energy security options as prices rise
Date: March 18, 2022
By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) -Britain is expected to publish its plan next week on how to boost domestic energy supplies to try to tackle spiralling prices and reduce the amount of imported oil and gas from Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. The government has said all options are on the table. The following...
Erdogan opens huge suspension bridge linking Europe and Asia
Date: March 18, 2022
By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan opened a massive suspension bridge across Turkey’s Dardanelles Strait on Friday, the latest in a series of major infrastructure projects which he has prioritised during his two decades in power. Connecting Turkey’s European and Asian shores, the 1915 Canakkale Bridge was built by Turkish and South...
Europe’s southern states call for common EU energy policies
Date: March 18, 2022
By Gavin Jones and Belén Carreño ROME (Reuters) – The European Union’s southern countries called on Friday for the bloc to adopt common energy policies in the face of surging prices and the need to reduce dependency on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. “We want to push the European Commission and the other member...
UK investors see 113 billion pounds of BoE bond sales by 2025
Date: March 18, 2022
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – Bond market experts expect the Bank of England to sell 113 billion pounds ($148 billion) of government bonds over the next three years, on top of 150 billion maturing from its 875 billion pound stockpile, a BoE survey showed on Friday. Britain’s central bank announced last month that...