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UK’s Marshalls flags weaker outlook after drop in new house building

(Reuters) -Britain’s Marshalls plc, a landscaping, building and roofing products supplier, said on Tuesday it expects to miss its full-year outlook due to a drop in new house building and home renovations, sending its shares down as much as 16.4%. The company, which reported a 14% contraction in its revenue for the January-April period on …

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Iveco to fully own venture with Nikola on electric, hydrogen trucks

MILAN (Reuters) – Iveco Group will buy full ownership of its joint venture with U.S. start-up Nikola Corp which develops battery electric and fuel cell heavy-duty trucks, the Italian truck maker said on Tuesday. With the move, Iveco will cut ties with the troubled Nikola, after forming the joint venture in 2019 to help the …

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Steelmaker Outokumpu tops Q1 forecasts, sees Q2 at similar level

By Jagoda Darlak (Reuters) -Finnish stainless steel maker Outokumpu on Tuesday beat expectations for first-quarter sales and earnings, sending its shares up nearly 10%, boosted by strong performance across the board even as volumes weakened from a year earlier. The company’s adjusted earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) fell 42% to 204 million …

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Agency warns Sweden may miss CO2 targets with biofuel cut

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden will struggle to hit its 2030 emissions targets, a government agency warned on Monday, after the country’s minority coalition cut the biofuel that must be added to diesel and gasoline. The right-wing Sweden Democrats-backed coalition government has already cut fuel taxes, raised tax breaks for people driving to work and ended new …

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EU plans tough ‘value for money’ rules for investment products – draft document

By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Banks, insurers and asset managers in the European Union would only be allowed to sell funds and other products across the bloc if they could prove to regulators they offer value for money, draft proposals seen by Reuters showed. The EU’s executive European Commission is due to publish legislative …

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Spain’s Amadeus beats expectations as Asia-Pacific leads recovery in air traffic

By Jakub Olesiuk and Matteo Allievi (Reuters) -A global recovery in air traffic helped Spanish travel booking group Amadeus post a near 200% jump in first-quarter adjusted net profit on Tuesday to beat analysts’ estimates, though profits were still below pre-pandemic levels.    Adjusted net profit for the three months came in at 273.1 million euros …

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Banks tighten credit terms, see loan demand drop, Fed survey shows

By Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir (Reuters) -Credit conditions for U.S. business and households continued tightening in the first months of the year, according to a Federal Reserve survey of bank loan officers, but the results seemed to mark the accumulating impact of Fed monetary tightening rather than the cliff-like decline in credit some feared …

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