Economic News

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union member countries’ envoys in Brussels will discuss this week a move by Poland and Hungary to ban grain and other food imports from Ukraine, a senior EU official said on Monday.

LONDON (Reuters) – The British government on Monday summoned the Russian ambassador to make clear its condemnation of what it described as the “politically motivated” conviction and sentencing of outspoken Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza, a British dual national.

(Reuters) – Netflix Inc. is down for more than 11,000 users in the United States on late Sunday, according outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

By Jack Queen (Reuters) – One of the most closely watched U.S. media trials in decades kicks off in a Delaware court on Monday as Fox Corp and Fox News face a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems over the network’s coverage of false

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza, on being sentenced to 25 years in prison on charges including treason, said “Russia will be free”, a Russian opposition slogan.

(Reuters) – A judge in Delaware on Sunday delayed by one day the start of trial in a $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox Corp, a courthouse spokesperson said.

By Arpan Chaturvedi NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Court appeals in India to legalise same-sex marriage are “urban elitist views”, the government has said in a new court document that seeks the dismissal of the challenge and says that parliament is the right platform to debate

LONDON (Reuters) – Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has recommended Barclays investors re-elect all board members at its annual meeting in May, a move that may quell a backlash against bosses for their support of former CEO Jes Staley, as investigations into his links with sex trafficker

LONDON (Reuters) – Finance executives at top British firms have reported the sharpest rise in optimism since late 2020 and the recent upheaval in the global banking sector has not dented the mood, a quarterly survey by Deloitte showed on Monday.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The exiled son of the Iranian Shah toppled in the 1979 Islamic revolution will visit Israel this week, Israel’s government said on Sunday, calling him the “most senior Iranian personality” to ever pay a public visit to Israel.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s annual wholesale-price based inflation (WPI) eased to the lowest in nearly 30 months, as input prices continued to moderate, government data showed on Monday.

(Reuters) – Porsche AG expressed confidence regarding 2023 on Monday after posting a record year-on-year sales increase of 18% in the first quarter.

BEIJING (Reuters) – China strongly condemns U.S. sanctions on Chinese firms over their allegedly involvement in the fentanyl trade, and has lodged solemn representations with Washington, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Monday.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said on Monday that Tokyo had lodged a protest with Russia over its military exercises around disputed islands near Japan’s Hokkaido.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu on Monday reported to President Vladimir Putin about drills conducted by the Pacific Fleet.

By Norihiko Shirouzu and Maki Shiraki (Reuters) – Nissan is developing growth plans in areas such as software and electric vehicles (EVs) independent of Renault SA as the automakers work to finalise terms of a sharply limited alliance, said seven people with knowledge of the matter.

By Kirsty Needham and Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – The lawyer for an Australian charged with foreign interference said his client had become “very worried” about two alleged foreign intelligence agents while living in Shanghai and returned to Australia after a decade-long career in China.

By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – Engineering a soft landing is hard. But if you zoom out from the strictest definition of the term, the U.S. Federal Reserve has managed it more often than is generally believed.

(Reuters) – Global recruiter PageGroup Plc on Monday forecast a near 29% slump in its annual profit and said the challenging conditions it experienced towards the end of 2022 have continued into 2023.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – One soldier has been arrested in connection with last week’s firing incident at a military base in the Indian border state of Punjab, police officials said on Monday.