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European stocks slip but head for best week since November 2020
Date: March 18, 2022
By Sruthi Shankar (Reuters) – European shares struggled for momentum on Friday after strong gains earlier this week, as investors focussed on Russia-Ukraine peace talks that have shown no tangible progress so far. The pan-European STOXX 600 index slipped 0.2%, with automakers and energy stocks leading the morning declines. Still, the benchmark was headed for...
Euro set for biggest weekly rise in 6 weeks
Date: March 18, 2022
By Saikat Chatterjee LONDON (Reuters) – The euro weakened on Friday but was set for its biggest weekly gains in six weeks as traders breathed a sigh of relief after Russia avoided default on dollar-denominated debt and markets weighed the broader impact of the start of the U.S. rate hike cycle. The single currency drifted...
Russia says post-1991 ‘illusions’ about the West are over
Date: March 18, 2022
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) – Russia has lost any illusions about ever relying on the West and Moscow will never accept a world order dominated by the United States, which is acting like a sheriff seeking to call all the shots in a saloon bar, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said. Western nations have imposed...
UK’s Sunak says his priority is to cut taxes
Date: March 18, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) -British finance minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday his priority was now to cut taxes having already taken measures to tackle the huge hole in the public finances caused by his pandemic public spending surge. “We’ve made the difficult decisions that we have to make,” Sunak told a conference organised by his Conservative...
Exclusive-Infra funds circle Vodafone for $16 billion Vantage Towers deal -sources
Date: March 18, 2022
By Anshuman Daga, Pamela Barbaglia and Andres Gonzalez SINGAPORE/LONDON (Reuters) -Global infrastructure funds have approached Vodafone to invest in its $16 billion mast company Vantage Towers but the telecoms giant’s preference is for an industry merger, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The bidders, which include investment firms Brookfield and Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP),...
Pope calls Ukraine war a ‘perverse abuse of power’ for partisan interests
Date: March 18, 2022
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis, ramping up his implicit criticism of Russia, on Friday called the war in Ukraine a “perverse abuse of power” waged for partisan interests which has condemned defenceless people to violence. The pope has not actually named Russia in his condemnations but he has used phrases such as...