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G7: China must press Russia to stop Ukraine war
Date: June 29, 2022
By Philip Blenkinsop GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (Reuters) – G7 leaders urged China on Tuesday to use its influence with Russia to stop its invasion of Ukraine and drop “expansive maritime claims” in the South China Sea, in unprecedentedly tough criticism of Beijing’s policies and human rights record. They called on China to press Russia to pull...
Support for post-Brexit trade rules grows in Northern Ireland – poll
Date: June 29, 2022
BELFAST (Reuters) – A growing majority of voters in Northern Ireland support the region’s post-Brexit trade rules, large swathes of which the British government are currently moving to do away with, a survey showed on Wednesday. Under the Northern Ireland protocol, the British-run region effectively remained in the EU’s single market for goods as the...
Toyota misses May production target in third monthly shortfall
Date: June 29, 2022
By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) -Toyota Motor Corp’s global production for the first five months of 2022 fell 9.7% short of its own target on average, raising questions about whether the Japanese automaker will be able to maintain its current target for the year. The world’s largest automaker by sales said it produced 634,940 vehicles...
Tesla closes an office as layoff hits Autopilot jobs, including hourly ones
Date: June 29, 2022
By Hyunjoo Jin SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Tesla has shuttered its office in San Mateo, California and laid off roughly 200 employees working on its Autopilot driver-assistant system there, one of the people told Reuters, in a move seen as accelerating cost-cutting. Most of the laid-off people had been hourly workers, that person said. Early...
UK economy faces double threat of inflation surge, recession risk
Date: June 29, 2022
By William Schomberg and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s economy is struggling under the strain of two major risks in the form of double-digit inflation and a possible recession, leaving the Bank of England in a dilemma about how much further it should raise interest rates. The BoE has raised borrowing costs five times...
The role of impact in the SFDR and ESG data overload
Date: June 29, 2022
As we’re increasingly swamped with environmental, social and governance (ESG) data, how can we use it to answer meaningful questions about the impacts of our investments? Investors and asset managers are about to get their hands on a lot more data. As EU regulations like the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), the EU Taxonomy and...