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GSK sues Moderna for US patent infringement over COVID, RSV vaccines

GSK sues Moderna for US patent infringement over COVID, RSV vaccines

  By Blake Brittain (Reuters) -British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline sued Moderna in U.S. federal court in Delaware on Tuesday, accus..

Blackstone to invest $8.2 billion in data centres in northeastern Spain

Blackstone to invest $8.2 billion in data centres in northeastern Spain

  MADRID (Reuters) – Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, plans to invest 7.5 billion euros ($8..

Spain 12-month EU-harmonised inflation falls to 1.7% in September

Spain 12-month EU-harmonised inflation falls to 1.7% in September

  (Reuters) – Spain’s European Union-harmonised 12-month inflation fell to 1.7% in September, down from 2.4% in the p..

Adobe starts roll-out of AI video tools, challenging OpenAI and Meta

Adobe starts roll-out of AI video tools, challenging OpenAI and Meta

  (Reuters) – Adobe on Monday said it has started publicly distributing an AI model that can generate video from text promp..

Hungary seeks housing boost from pensions ahead of 2026 election

Hungary seeks housing boost from pensions ahead of 2026 election

  By Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary’s economy ministry proposed on Monday that savings in private pension acco..

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Sterling dips as investors look to UK jobs, inflation reports this week

Sterling dips as investors look to UK jobs, inflation reports this week

  By Medha Singh LONDON (Reuters) – The pound held near a one-month low against the dollar on Monday ahead of wage growth and inflation dat..

Exclusive-Ericsson gets new 5G contract from India’s Bharti Airtel, sources say

Exclusive-Ericsson gets new 5G contract from India’s Bharti Airtel, sources say

  By Supantha Mukherjee STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish telecom gear maker Ericsson has received a new multi-billion dollar contract..

Stellantis’ CEO declines to rule out job cuts in challenging market

Stellantis’ CEO declines to rule out job cuts in challenging market

  PARIS (Reuters) – Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares on Monday declined to rule out job cuts and said keeping up with Chinese ..

Inside China’s bid to build sway over global metals pricing

Inside China’s bid to build sway over global metals pricing

  By Pratima Desai and Siyi Liu LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China is locking in steps to shape the pricing of the vast qua..

Geopolitics dents big UK businesses’ optimism, Deloitte says

Geopolitics dents big UK businesses’ optimism, Deloitte says

  By Andy Bruce (Reuters) – Optimism in large British companies softened ahead of the new Labour government’s first a..

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Athletics-Kenya’s Chepngetich smashes women’s marathon world record

Athletics-Kenya’s Chepngetich smashes women’s marathon world record

  (Reuters) -Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich put on a performance for the ages as she obliterated the women’s marathon world record in Chica..

NASA spacecraft to study whether Jupiter’s moon Europa can harbor life

NASA spacecraft to study whether Jupiter’s moon Europa can harbor life

  By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA is set to launch a spacecraft to Jupiter’s moon Europa, considered one o..

Italian-run space centre in Kenya to be used again for earth observation

Italian-run space centre in Kenya to be used again for earth observation

  MILAN (Reuters) – An Italian-run space centre in Kenya will be used again for the launch of Earth observation satellites ..

Hungary’s economy to get boost from housing next year, PM Orban says

Hungary’s economy to get boost from housing next year, PM Orban says

  By Gergely Szakacs and Anita Komuves BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary’s economic growth will accelerate substantially in the f..

Dutch economy minister pushes for European chip industry coalition

Dutch economy minister pushes for European chip industry coalition

  ROME (Reuters) – The Dutch economy minister said on Thursday he wants to form a European Union “coalition of the wi..

Tesla to give permanent jobs to 500 temporary staff at German gigafactory

Tesla to give permanent jobs to 500 temporary staff at German gigafactory

  FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Tesla on Thursday said it would give permanent jobs from Nov. 1 to 500 temporary workers at its German gig..

UK property market strengthens, pressure on renters intensifies, RICS says

UK property market strengthens, pressure on renters intensifies, RICS says

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s housing market recovered further last month, according to property surveyors who said house p..

Hurricane Milton leaves Florida with less damage than feared

Hurricane Milton leaves Florida with less damage than feared

By Leonara LaPeter Anton and Brad Brooks ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) -Hurricane Milton plowed into the Atlantic Ocean on Thursda..

Sterling hovers near one-month low ahead of US inflation print

Sterling hovers near one-month low ahead of US inflation print

  LONDON (Reuters) – The pound was flat on Thursday, hovering near its lowest level against the dollar in a month, as trade..

French government to present 2025 belt-tightening budget

French government to present 2025 belt-tightening budget

  By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) – France’s government is to deliver its 2025 budget on Thursday with plans for 60 b..

Britain sets out funding model for renewable energy storage projects

Britain sets out funding model for renewable energy storage projects

  By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will offer developers of renewable energy storage projects, such as pumped ..

Multilateral banks could lend up to $480 billion more before rating downgrades, Fitch says 

Multilateral banks could lend up to $480 billion more before rating downgrades, Fitch says 

  (Reuters) – A dozen of the largest multilateral development banks could collectively lend a further half-trillion dollars..

Insurer Aviva secures $2 billion pensions buy-in

Insurer Aviva secures $2 billion pensions buy-in

  LONDON (Reuters) – British insurer Aviva has completed a 1.5 billion pound ($1.96 billion) bulk annuity buy-in deal with ..

Ratan Tata, who put India’s Tata Group on the global map, dies at 86

Ratan Tata, who put India’s Tata Group on the global map, dies at 86

  By Abhirup Roy (Reuters) – Ratan Tata, the former Tata Group chairman who put a staid and sprawling Indian conglomerate o..

Nobel chemistry prize 2024 goes to trio of protein pioneers

Nobel chemistry prize 2024 goes to trio of protein pioneers

By Johan Ahlander, Niklas Pollard, Marie Mannes STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -U.S. scientists David Baker and John Jumper and Briton Demis Hass..

UK population rises to 68.3 million, driven by immigration

UK population rises to 68.3 million, driven by immigration

LONDON (Reuters) – The United Kingdom’s population grew by 1% in annual terms to 68.3 million as of mid-2023, mainly due t..

UK pay growth weakest since February 2021, REC survey show

UK pay growth weakest since February 2021, REC survey show

  LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s jobs market showed more signs of cooling in September as pay growth increased at the s..

ECB will probably cut rates in Oct on risk of too low inflation: Villeroy

ECB will probably cut rates in Oct on risk of too low inflation: Villeroy

  FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank will probably cut interest rates on Oct 17 as economic growth is weak and..

Dollar hovers near six-week high ahead of US jobs report; sterling attempts recovery

Dollar hovers near six-week high ahead of US jobs report; sterling attempts recovery

  By Ankur Banerjee and Medha Singh SINGAPORE/LODNON (Reuters) – The dollar hovered near a six-week high on Friday ahead of..

Bayer sees Intacta2 Xtend GMO seed covering 30% of Brazil’s soybeans

Bayer sees Intacta2 Xtend GMO seed covering 30% of Brazil’s soybeans

  SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Germany’s Bayer forecasts that some 30% of Brazil’s soybean area will be sowed with its..

England’s NHS to offer Lilly’s weight-loss drug to some patients

England’s NHS to offer Lilly’s weight-loss drug to some patients

  (Reuters) – England’s National Health Services will offer Eli Lilly’s weight-loss drug to nearly a quarter mi..

Telecom Italia board to meet Friday over bid for Sparkle unit, sources say

Telecom Italia board to meet Friday over bid for Sparkle unit, sources say

  MILAN (Reuters) – Telecom Italia (TIM) will hold a board meeting on Friday over a 700 million euro ($772 million) non-bin..

Exclusive-Germany to vote against EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, sources say

Exclusive-Germany to vote against EU tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, sources say

  By Andreas Rinke FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany on Friday will vote against the introduction of European Union tariffs on Chinese..

Sabadell CEO says 2024 full-year profit could top 1.6 billion euros

Sabadell CEO says 2024 full-year profit could top 1.6 billion euros

  MADRID (Reuters) – The CEO of Spain’s Sabadell, Cesar Gonzalez-Bueno, on Thursday said the bank could earn more tha..

SWIFT to trial live digital currency transactions next year

SWIFT to trial live digital currency transactions next year

By Alun John LONDON (Reuters) – Global bank messaging network SWIFT will trial live transactions of tokenised assets and digital..

France to stick with wind power development targets

France to stick with wind power development targets

PARIS (Reuters) – France is aiming for a target growth rate of 1.5 gigawatts (GW) per year in onshore wind power, Energy ministe..

ECB’s top conservative shifts tone with sanguine inflation message

ECB’s top conservative shifts tone with sanguine inflation message

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Euro zone inflation is increasingly likely to ease back to the European Central Bank’s 2% target on a durab..