By Laura Sanicola (Reuters) -Oil prices settled higher on Wednesday, with benchmark Brent futures breaching $80 a barrel for the first time since May, after U.S. inflation data spurred hopes the Federal Reserve may have fewer interest rate hikes in…
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By Ananya Mariam Rajesh, Granth Vanaik and Arriana McLymore (Reuters) -Amazon.com's Prime Day two-day shopping event saw U.S. online sales rise nearly 6% to $6.4 billion from a year ago on its first day, as heavy discounts lured bargain-hunting customers…
By Jorgelina do Rosario LONDON (Reuters) -Global public debt surged to a record $92 trillion in 2022 as governments borrowed to counter crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, with the burden being felt acutely by developing countries, a United Nations…
By David Carnevali and Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley has hired veteran investment banker Daniel Cohen from Truist Financial Corp, where he was the head of the firm's healthcare services advisory business, a person familiar with the…
By Shankar Ramakrishnan and Matt Tracy (Reuters) - Banks are showing a growing willingness to rework the terms of U.S. commercial real estate loans to prevent defaults, mitigating near-term losses but also masking growing stress in some parts of the…
MADRID (Reuters) - Amancio Ortega, the founder of Zara-owner Inditex, has bought a warehouse in Los Angeles for $109 million as part of a continued drive to invest in logistics real estate in the U.S., his investment firm Pontegadea said…
(Reuters) - The interest rate on the most popular U.S. home loan leapt back over 7% last week for the first time since last fall as financial markets adjusted to an expectation that the Federal Reserve would need to keep…
By Sruthi Shankar and Medha Singh (Reuters) -A "special rebalance" of the Nasdaq 100 index will take place later this month as exchange operator Nasdaq looks to reduce the concentration of heavyweight companies that account for nearly half of the…
(This July 11 story has been corrected to add 'CoinShares' in paragraph 2 and 'funds investing in crypto' in paragraph 4) By Nell Mackenzie and Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) - Global hedge funds not specialising in crypto assets have grown…
BERLIN (Reuters) - Mercedes-Benz Group sales in the second quarter rose 6% year-on-year - a total of 515,700 vehicles - on the back of demand for all-electric and top-end vehicles, the German carmaker said on Tuesday. Sales grew in all…