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By Giuseppe Fonte, Elvira Pollina ROME (Reuters) -Italy is considering raising the ownership thresholds that trigger mandatory takeover bids in public companies, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as part of plans to spur the country’s underdeveloped capital market. Since she took office in late 2022, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has adopted initiatives …

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By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration released an encyclopedic list of foreign countries’ policies and regulations it regards as trade barriers on Monday, two days before he proposed hitting global trading partners with reciprocal tariffs. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative’s annual National Trade Estimate Report on foreign trade …

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(Reuters) – Goldman Sachs cut its 12-month forecast for Europe’s benchmark STOXX 600 index, citing the potential impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff plans. The Wall Street brokerage trimmed its forecast to 570 points from 580 earlier. The pan-European stock index last closed at 533.92 points on Monday.On Sunday, Trump said that his upcoming …

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(Reuters) -British house prices were flat in March and the market is likely to stay soft after a tax increase on property transactions, mortgage lender Nationwide said on Tuesday. A Reuters poll of economists had pointed to a 0.2% month-on-month increase. As of Tuesday, Britain’s government has lowered the price threshold at which buyers become …

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(Reuters) -OpenAI is planning to release its first open-weight language model with reasoning capabilities since GPT‑2 in the coming months, CEO Sam Altman said on Monday. An open-weight language model’s trained parameters or weights are publicly accessible, which can be used by developers to analyze and fine-tune the model for specific tasks without requiring original …

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By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland’s last coal-fired power and heat plant in active production will shut down permanently on Tuesday, enabling Helsinki energy group Helen to cut its emissions and put an end to rising energy costs for its customers, its chief executive said. Finland’s renewable power and heat production capacity, such as …

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