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Economic Update: Covid rears its head

By Rupert Thompson, Chief Economist at Kingswood Markets last week were relatively quiet for the sec...

5th December, 2022

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Italy ageing faster than EU peers, population drops below 59 million

ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s population has dropped below 59 million and the country is ageing at a much...

5th December, 2022

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Oil prices rise after OPEC+ keeps output steady, Russian price cap imposed

By Noah Browning LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices rose on Monday after OPEC+ nations held their output t...

5th December, 2022

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Euro zone likely heading into mild recession-PMI

LONDON (Reuters) – Euro zone business activity declined for a fifth month in November, suggesting th...

5th December, 2022

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Asia shares bank on eventual China opening; oil gains

By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares extended their rally on Monday as investors hoped step...

5th December, 2022

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China’s patchy COVID easing sows confusion but comforts investors

By Ryan Woo and Martin Quin Pollard BEIJING (Reuters) -A partial easing of the world’s toughest COVI...

5th December, 2022

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Analysis-Energy hungry Europe can’t look to U.S. shale to fill any OPEC gap

By Laila Kearney, Liz Hampton and Arathy Somasekhar NEW YORK/DENVER/HOUSTON (Reuters) – U.S. shale o...

2nd December, 2022

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Europe’s STOXX 600 slips, but marks seventh week of gains

By Susan Mathew and Devik Jain (Reuters) – European shares fell back on Friday after two days of str...

2nd December, 2022

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Stocks fall as strong U.S. payrolls muddies rate bets

By Sinéad Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) – Equities took a dip on Friday while U.S. Treasury yields climbe...

2nd December, 2022

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Euro zone bond yields rise after U.S. jobs data

By Alun John LONDON (Reuters) – European government bond yields rose after Friday data showed U.S. e...

2nd December, 2022

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Irish corporate tax boom breaks more records in November

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland took in more corporate tax in November than it used to collect in entire...

2nd December, 2022

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Pfizer to invest more than $2.5 billion to expand European manufacturing

By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) -Pfizer Inc is investing more than $2.5 billion at its drug maki...

2nd December, 2022