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(Corrects paragraphs 1 and 2 to show hiring intentions are the joint weakest since 2020, not the outright weakest. Also changes businesses expectations for inflation in September to 3.4% from 3.5% in paragraph 8 after the BoE corrected its data) LONDON (Reuters) -British businesses have the joint weakest hiring intentions since 2020 and expect the …

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(Reuters) -London’s FTSE 100 fell on Thursday, although it touched another record high during the session, dragged down by losses in healthcare and energy stocks, while Tesco shares climbed after the supermarket giant lifted its annual profit outlook. The blue-chip index closed 0.2% lower. Tesco topped the index’s gains, rising 5.2% after raising its full-year …

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By Shashwat Chauhan, Amir Orusov and Purvi Agarwal (Reuters) -European shares closed at a record high for a second session on Thursday, driven by a rally in industrials and chip-related stocks, while expectations of U.S. interest rate cuts this month also buoyed sentiment. The pan-European STOXX 600 index was up 0.5% at its record close, …

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(Corrects name from Arm Holdings to Arm in paragraph one) By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Arm said on Tuesday it planned to appeal a judge’s ruling in a licensing dispute against Qualcomm that left the chipmaker’s jury victory intact.  Qualcomm secured a key win in U.S. federal court in Delaware last year, with a …

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By Andrew Gray, Jan Strupczewski and Ingrid Melander COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has asked other EU leaders to guarantee they will share the risks if frozen Russian assets held in his country are used to finance loans to Ukraine. At a summit in Copenhagen on Wednesday, many European Union leaders expressed …

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