By Tom Sims and Alexandra Schwarz-Goerlich VIENNA (Reuters) -Austria’s Raiffeisen Bank International said on Tuesday it would further decrease its extensive business in Russia in agreement with the European Central Bank. Raiffeisen Bank (RBI) has been under pressure from authorities on both sides of the Atlantic to reduce its footprint in the country following the …
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By Alexander Marrow (Reuters) -Russian technology company Yandex on Tuesday said it may start paying dividends for the first time, as it reported a sharp rise in core earnings after completing a lengthy and complex split from its Nasdaq-listed, Dutch parent company. A Russian consortium of buyers this month finalised a $5.4 billion cash and …
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By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s accounting watchdog said on Tuesday its annual spot checks of audits had uncovered a sharp drop in quality at BDO and Forvis Mazars that must be “urgently addressed” or they could be barred from auditing listed firms. The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) said its annual review of audit …
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ROME (Reuters) -Italy’s economy grew by 0.2% in the second quarter from the previous three months, driven by domestic demand, preliminary data showed on Tuesday, in line with forecasts. On a year-on-year basis, second quarter gross domestic product in the euro zone’s third largest economy was up 0.9%, national statistics bureau ISTAT said, also in …
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By Pranav Kashyap (Reuters) -European shares were muted on Tuesday as investors exercised caution ahead of the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy meeting and Euro zone inflation data, but gains in technology and oil stocks keep the benchmark afloat. The pan-European STOXX 600 index was up 0.1% at 512.44 points by 0830 GMT. The technology sector …
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By Jesús Aguado MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish bank Unicaja on Tuesday raised its forecast for lending income for 2024 after interest rates remained higher than initially expected in the second quarter, though it said margins fell on higher funding costs. The decline in margins in April-June from the previous quarter sent shares in Spain’s sixth-largest bank …
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(Reuters) – AXA IM Prime, a unit of AXA Investment Managers, will acquire a 20% stake in French private credit firm Rivage Investment, the two companies said in a joint statement on Tuesday. Separately, AXA IM Prime, a long-standing investor in Rivage’s strategies, will also put money in some of its infrastructure debt strategies, the …
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By Chiara Holzhaeuser and Antonis Pothitos (Reuters) -Shares in Clariant fell 7.5% on Tuesday after the Swiss speciality chemicals maker lowered its full-year sales forecast due to a weak performance in its catalysts unit, overshadowing a hike in its margin target. Clariant expects its sales to be flat or grow by up to a low …
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By Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) -The German economy unexpectedly shrank in the second quarter after skirting a recession at the beginning of the year, showing that the euro zone’s biggest economy is failing to take off despite the easing of inflation pressures. Germany’s gross domestic product contracted by 0.1% in the second quarter compared with …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Weak demand for gasoline and diesel around the world is weighing on refining profit margins which are however expected to improve over the summer driving season, BP CEO Murray Auchincloss said on Tuesday. “The refining environment on a spot basis isn’t fabulous,” Auchincloss told Reuters after the company reported $2.8 billion in …
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