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By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) -London Stock Exchange Group’s listings pipeline is “looking up”, helped by rule changes introduced this week that will not lower standards, CEO David Schwimmer said on Thursday. Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) rolled out on Monday the biggest reform of UK listings rules in decades in a bid to help …

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By Lawrence White and Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) -Barclays announced a new 750 million pound share buyback and upgraded its longer term earnings guidance on Thursday, driven in part by an upswing in trading income that offset a 9% profit fall over the first half of 2024. The British bank now expects to make a …

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By Anna Peverieri and Michal Aleksandrowicz (Reuters) -ArcelorMittal, the world’s No. 2 steelmaker, reported second-quarter core profit tumbled 38% on low steel prices but the result was somewhat better than expected as shipments picked up from the previous quarter. Steel prices in Europe and the U.S. are below the marginal cost of production and excess …

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By Pranav Kashyap (Reuters) -Financials and auto stocks weighed European shares down on Thursday, bucking a global rally sparked by the U.S. Federal Reserve opening the door to easing in September. The pan-European STOXX 600 index lost 0.5% by 0825 GMT, after touching a two-week high in the previous session. The banking sector fell the …

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By Andy Bruce (Reuters) – British factories recorded their best month for two years during July, with output and hiring rising and optimism building after Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s landslide election victory, a survey showed on Thursday. The S&P Global UK Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index rose to 52.1 from 50.9, its highest reading since July …

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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – CrowdStrike has been sued by shareholders who said the cybersecurity company defrauded them by concealing how its inadequate software testing could cause the July 19 global outage that crashed more than 8 million computers. In a proposed class action filed on Tuesday night in the Austin, Texas federal court, shareholders …

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By Max A. Cherney -Chip designer Arm Holdings on Wednesday set a revenue forecast in line with Wall Street targets, disappointing investors used to rosier outlooks by the company’s rivals in the era of artificial intelligence. Shares fell 9% after hours. They had climbed more than 90% this year, and closed up 8.4% on Wednesday, …

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By Katie Paul and Yuvraj Malik (Reuters) -Meta Platforms beat market expectations for second-quarter revenue on Wednesday and issued a rosy sales forecast for the third quarter, signaling that robust digital-ad spending on its social media platforms can cover the cost of its artificial-intelligence investments. Shares of the company were up 4% after the bell. …

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By Abhijith Ganapavaram and Allison Lampert (Reuters) -Boeing on Wednesday named aerospace industry veteran Kelly Ortberg as its CEO to turn around the struggling planemaker after a quarter where it lost more than $1 billion. Ortberg will start on Aug. 8 with the monumental task of rebuilding trust with regulators, the industry and the public …

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MILAN (Reuters) – Italian app developer Bending Spoons has bought file-sharing platform WeTransfer, the companies said in a joint statement on Wednesday, as the Milan-based tech company presses ahead with a string of deals for software firms. The deal, for which financial details were not disclosed, is the fifth acquisition this year by Bending Spoons, …

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