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Rate rise fears prompt third week of global equity funds outflows
Date: September 9, 2022
(Reuters) – Global equity funds remained out of favour in the seven days to Sept. 7 as a strong U.S. services industry report fuelled concerns that the Federal Reserve would keep hiking interest rates to tame inflation. Some investors had expected that the Fed might temper its rate hikes to avert a slowdown in the...
Queen Elizabeth’s death: Reaction from world leaders
Date: September 9, 2022
(Reuters) – Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and the nation’s figurehead for seven decades, died on Thursday aged 96. Here is some reaction to her death: U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL ANTONIO GUTERRES “As the United Kingdom’s longest-lived and longest-reigning Head of State, Queen Elizabeth II was widely admired for her grace, dignity, and dedication around the world....
Motor racing-Porsche’s Formula One plans stall as Red Bull talks collapse
Date: September 9, 2022
BERLIN (Reuters) – Porsche and Red Bull have ended talks over Porsche joining Formula One, but the German sports car brand remains interested in entering the racing series, it said on Friday. “The two companies have now jointly come to the conclusion that these talks will no longer be continued,” Porsche AG said in a...
Four European countries call for special treatment of defence in EU debt rules – document
Date: September 9, 2022
By Jan Strupczewski PRAGUE (Reuters) – Greece, Romania, Poland and Lithuania are urging the European Commission to give special treatment in EU debt rules to spending on defence, to help accommodate the military investment needed after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a document showed. EU finance ministers will start discussions on how to change the...
Germany’s bakeries burnt by rising energy prices
Date: September 9, 2022
By Riham Alkousaa and Petra Wischgoll MUELHEIM AN DER RUHR (Germany) (Reuters) – German bakery owner Peter Hemmerle is expecting his company’s annual electricity bill to quadruple to 1.2 million euros as energy prices have risen since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. His Heinz Hemmerle bakery in Muelheim an der Ruhr depends on...
The life of Queen Elizabeth
Date: September 9, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) -Queen Elizabeth, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch and the nation’s figurehead for seven decades, has died aged 96, Buckingham Palace said on Thursday. Following is a timeline of the queen’s life and reign: April 21, 1926 – Elizabeth is born at 2:40 a.m. at 17 Bruton Street, London, and christened on May 29 that year...