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Analysis: Investments get ‘real’ as inflation fears dim appeal of bonds
By Saikat Chatterjee and Thyagaraju Adinarayan LONDON (Reuters) - Electric vehicle infrastructure, top-end offices and industrial metals - with a resurgence in inflation seemingly on the horizon, inve...
Apr 08, 2021
UK card spending rises to highest since Christmas
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - British households' spending on credit and debit cards rose strongly to 88% of its pre-pandemic average in the week to April 1, its highest since the week before C...
Apr 08, 2021
Nasdaq futures gain 1% ahead of weekly jobless claims data
By Shivani Kumaresan (Reuters) - Futures tracking the Nasdaq jumped about 1% on Thursday, as tech-related stocks climbed ahead of weekly jobless claims data, while reassurance that the Federal Reserve...
Apr 08, 2021
Europe should invest in chip design, not a mega-fab: think tank
By Douglas Busvine BERLIN (Reuters) - Europe's ambition to make the most powerful computer chips risks wasting billions of euros, a German think tank said in a report on Thursday, urging policy makers...
Apr 08, 2021
Cut the debt of poor countries, Pope tells IMF, World Bank
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis has told world financial chiefs that poor countries hit by the economic impact of the coronavirus need to have their debt burden reduced and be given a greater sa...
Apr 08, 2021
Malaysia’s Top Glove says production hurt by U.S. ban
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's Top Glove said on Thursday its glove production has been affected because of a U.S. ban on its products over allegations they are made with forced labour. Two units...
Apr 08, 2021
ASOS wary on outlook as finances of 20-somethings face pandemic hit
By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) - British online fashion retailer ASOS reported a 275% jump in first-half profit, driven by the popularity of e-commerce during the pandemic but was cautious on the sho...
Apr 08, 2021
Fixing the credit Catch-22: How Biden wants to make credit scores fairer
By Matt Scuffham (Reuters) - A chance conversation with a customer ended up saving Vincent Lipford, a self-employed barber in Memphis, Tennessee, more than $20,000. The 51-year-old single father was s...
Apr 08, 2021
Biden seeks to ease housing shortage with $5 billion ‘carrot, no stick’ approach
By Andy Sullivan and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden is seeking to ease a national affordable housing shortage by pushing local governments to allow apartment buildings in n...
Apr 08, 2021
McCarthy Stone gets 200 million pounds financing to boost retirement home supply
(Reuters) - Infrastructure investors John Laing Group and Macquarie Capital will invest 200 million pounds ($274.76 million) in retirement living homes developed by McCarthy Stone, the companies said ...
Apr 08, 2021
