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Inflation crisis forces new frugality on French consumers

By Leigh Thomas and Caroline Pailliez PARIS (Reuters) -Cost-conscious French consumers are ditching...

30th August, 2022

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EU sets sights on energy market reform as prices soar

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union is drafting emergency plans to intervene in it...

30th August, 2022

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Factbox-Government measures to ease inflation pain

(Reuters) – Pandemic-related disruption to global supply chains and the knock-on effects of Russia’s...

30th August, 2022

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Pakistan floods add to pain for struggling small businesses

By Zofeen T. Ebrahim KARACHI, Pakistan (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Dipping a roller into a tray o...

30th August, 2022

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Pain of breaking inflation will reverberate around the globe

By Balazs Koranyi and Howard Schneider JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. (Reuters) -The message from the world’s to...

29th August, 2022

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China July industrial profits down as COVID curbs, heatwaves hit

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Profits at China’s industrial firms sank in July, reversing previous gains as fr...

29th August, 2022

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Thousands of British postal workers walk out over pay

LONDON (Reuters) – More than 115,000 workers at Britain’s Royal Mail began the first of four days of...

26th August, 2022

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Factbox-How far are UK energy bills set to rise and what help are consumers getting?

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s energy regulator Ofgem said on Friday the cap on domestic energy prices...

26th August, 2022

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After rescue by Open Arms, 99 migrants wait to dock in Europe

By Juan Medina ABOARD THE OPEN ARMS UNO, off Sicily (Reuters) – Around 30 nautical miles off the coa...

26th August, 2022

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Fortum says rising costs of Nordic power trading are “worrying”

By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finnish utility Fortum on Thursday said low liquidity and high...

25th August, 2022

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New UK PM must be radical to stop power bill catastrophe – think tank

By Humza Jilani LONDON(Reuters) -Britain’s next prime minister must adopt radical ideas – such as di...

25th August, 2022

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German exporters pinched by 70-billion-euro price squeeze – DIHK

By Rene Wagner BERLIN (Reuters) – German exporters are in an “extreme price squeeze” and incurred ex...

25th August, 2022