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European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde openly admitted for the first time what investors had already been betting on for a while: negative interest rates, a eurozone feature for eight years, will most likely be gone by the end of summer. With inflation running at a record 7.4% in the euro zone and money markets pricing over 100 basis points of hikes by end-2022, the candid tone of Lagarde's announcement was perhaps the most surprising news for investors. Government bond yields firmed, the euro rose and Lagarde will have a chance to give more details when she speaks at Davos after a fresh batch of indicators on European business activity.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell in morning trading on Wall Street Tuesday, weighed down by a big decline in tech heavyweights over concerns about persistently rising inflation's impact to their bottom lines. The S&P 500 index fell 2.1% as of 10:14 a.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 351 points, or 1.1%, to 31,524 and the Nasdaq fell 3.6%. A stark profit warning from Snapchat’s parent company spooked investors into dumping the stocks of major social media companies. Snap plummeted 39%
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Kremlin critic Bill Browder wants governments to step up efforts to get to the riches squirreled away by Russian oligarchs and linked to President Vladimir Putin by forcing the accountants, lawyers and others who set up murky legal and financial structures to become whistleblowers. Browder, author of the nonfiction best-seller “Freezing Order: “A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath,” says Russia’s war in Ukraine has increased atte
Panoro Minerals Ltd. ("Panoro" or the "Company") (TSXV: PML) (Lima: PML) (Frankfurt: PZM) (OTCQB: POROF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael Malana as Chief Financial Officer effective June 1, 2022.
Neo Performance Materials Inc. ("Neo", the "Company") (TSX: NEO) is pleased to announce the publication of its inaugural Sustainability Report which provides information to shareholders, customers, industry partners, employees, and stakeholders on the Company's environmental, social, and governance ("ESG") performance in 2021. The Report also launches a formal reporting process that helps to explain and document Neo's ongoing efforts to produce the advanced materials that help the world transiti
U.S. business activity slowed moderately in May as higher prices cooled demand for services while renewed supply constraints because of COVID-19 lockdowns in China and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine hampered production at factories. S&P Global said on Tuesday its flash U.S. Composite PMI Output Index, which tracks the manufacturing and services sectors, fell to a reading of 53.8 this month from 56.0 in April. A reading above 50 indicates expansion in the private sector.
Russia edged closer to a historic debt default on Wednesday after the United States decided against extending a key license that had allowed Moscow to keep paying bondholders despite the sanctions imposed on it for attacking Ukraine. The license expired at 12:01 am ET (0401 GMT) on Wednesday, setting Russia on course for its first major default on sovereign international bonds in over a century. A license issued on March 2 by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) had allowed for transactions between U.S. entities and Russia's finance ministry, central bank or national wealth fund in relation to debt payments.
Firework, the leading livestreaming commerce and digital transformation platform, has secured $150 million in Series B financing, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2.
Japan's manufacturing activity expanded at the slowest pace in three months in May, as supply bottlenecks due to parts shortages and China's COVID-19 lockdowns caused output and new orders growth to slow. Activity in the services sector improved for the second consecutive month on stronger domestic demand due to the fading impact of the pandemic, though service-sector firms faced a drag from the sharpest rise in input prices on record. The au Jibun Bank Flash Japan Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) slipped to a seasonally adjusted 53.2 in May from a final 53.5 in April.
Snap Inc shares plunged more than 40% and sparked a sector-wide selloff on Tuesday after a profit warning from the Snapchat parent signaled tough times ahead for the once-booming digital ad industry. The company was on track to lose $15 billion in market capitalization, while shares of major online advertisers and social-media firms were set to lose a combine $200 billion in value from the rout. Snap said on Monday it was expecting to miss quarterly revenue and profit targets set just a month earlier and would have to slow hiring and lower spending.
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Sales of new U.S. single-family homes tumbled to a two-year low in April, likely as higher mortgage rates and record prices squeezed first-time buyers and those in search of entry-level properties out of the housing market. The fourth straight monthly decline in sales reported by the Commerce Department on Tuesday added to data last week showing a plunge in single-family building permits in April and continued weakness in sales of previously owned homes in suggesting that demand for housing was cooling. But the housing market slowdown is likely to be limited by record low inventory.
On Monday, Starbucks Corp said it was pulling out of Russia and McDonald's trademark "Golden Arches" were lowered near Moscow, following the sale of its burger chain to a licensee. Nike said on March 3 it would temporarily suspend operations at all its Nike-owned and -operated stores in Russia in response to Moscow's actions in Ukraine and has said that those still open are operated by independent partners. Inventive Retail Group (IRG), which operates 37 Nike-branded stores in Russia through its subsidiary Up And Run, said there had been a shortage of goods since Nike halted shipments.
Cerro de Pasco Resources Inc. (CSE:CDPR) (Frankfurt: N8HP) ("CDPR", or the "Corporation") announces that it will carry out a sonic drilling campaign on its Quiulacocha Tailings in Cerro de Pasco, Peru, in the third quarter of 2022.
Ingenium is thrilled to recognize five inspirational youth who have made positive changes in their community using science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics (STEAM).
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Claridge Food Group announces a strategic investment of $40 million in WeCook Meals, the leading ready-to-eat food processor in Quebec and Ontario. As part of this major transaction, that is the first investment of the financial vehicle created to stimulate the development of Quebec's food processing industry, Investissement Québec becomes a co-investor through a $13 million investment, and Desjardins Capital, who had participated in two previous funding rounds of WeCook Meals, in 2020 and 2021,
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Shareholders backed Shell's climate strategy in a meeting on Tuesday that was disrupted by dozens of climate protesters, while a climate activist proposal from the Follow This group received fewer votes than last year. It followed a Dutch court ruling in May 2021, telling the company to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in absolute terms by 45% by 2030 across the entire lifecycle of its hydrocarbons. Shell aims to cut to net zero by 2050 all greenhouse gas emissions, including those from burning fuel and from products it sells.
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