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Canadian insurer Sun Life reports higher first-quarter profit

(Reuters) – Canada’s Sun Life Financial Inc reported a rise in first-quarter profit on Thursday as strong insurance sales in the United States market outweighed weakness in its asset management unit. The company posted underlying net income of C$895 million ($669.31 million), or C$1.52 per share, for the three months ended March 31, compared with …

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Disney shares fall most since Iger’s return after streaming subscriber losses

By Aditya Soni (Reuters) -Walt Disney Co shares ended down more than 8% on Thursday as a surprise drop in streaming subscribers fanned worries that the media and entertainment company could be sacrificing growth in its bid to stem losses. The decline erased about $16 billion from the company’s market value and marked the stock’s …

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News Corp beats revenue estimates on subscriptions growth, cost cuts

(Reuters) -News Corp on Thursday beat Wall Street estimates for third-quarter revenue on cost-cut measures and strong digital subscriptions across its professional data and news platforms, sending the media conglomerate’s shares up 5% after the bell.  The company’s acquisition of U.S. oil pricing agency Oil Price Information Service in 2021 to bolster its business data …

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PacWest shares plunge after it reports drop in deposits

By Niket Nishant and Chibuike Oguh (Reuters) -Shares of PacWest Bancorp plunged 23% on Thursday after the Los-Angeles-based lender said its deposits declined and that it had posted more collateral to the U.S. Federal Reserve to boost its liquidity. PacWest deposits fell 9.5% or $1.5 billion last week, with the majority of those outflows occurring …

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Yellen says G7 members looking at how to counter China’s ‘economic coercion’

By Andrea Shalal NIIGATA, Japan (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Thursday said many members of the Group of Seven advanced economies shared U.S. concerns about China’s use of “economic coercion” against other countries, and were considering how to counter such behavior. Yellen told a press conference that Washington had also long considered …

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Biden warns of recession unless Republicans back his debt ceiling plan

By Nandita Bose VALHALLA, N.Y. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden piled pressure on Republican lawmakers on Wednesday to move quickly to raise the country’s $31.4 trillion debt ceiling or risk throwing the U.S. economy into a recession that would kill thousands of jobs. “We’ve got to fight. We’re going to win this fight,” Biden said …

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