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Blucora urges investors to reject Ancora’s directors, plans
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - Financial services firm Blucora Inc is urging shareholders to back its board and block a dissident investor's effort to seat four directors, arguing it has al...
Mar 15, 2021
Canadian housing starts decline 13.5% on month in February: CMHC
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian housing starts fell 13.5% in February compared with the previous month on decreases of both multiple and single-detached urban starts, data from the Canadian Mortgage and H...
Mar 15, 2021
U.S. airlines see ‘glimmers of hope’ as bookings improve
(Reuters) - Delta Air Lines said on Monday that it expects a first-quarter revenue decline at the low end of its forecast for a 60% to 65% decline from the same quarter in 2019, before the pandemic cr...
Mar 15, 2021
From stage to cemetery: Europe’s workers retrain for post-pandemic jobs
By Robert Muller, Michael Kahn and Michael Nienaber PRAGUE (Reuters) - With theatres closed and work prospects dim, Czech actor Tomas Novotny put his stage career on hold and trained to become a grave...
Mar 15, 2021
Brazil’s 2021 inflation outlook surges to 4.6%, well beyond central bank target: survey
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's expected inflation for 2021 shot up to a new high of 4.6%, a central bank survey of economists published on Monday showed, significantly above the bank's year-end target ...
Mar 15, 2021
Volkswagen aims for six battery cell plants in Europe by 2030
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen, the world's No.2 carmaker, on Monday said it plans to build six battery cell production plants in Europe by 2030 to secure supply for its electric vehicle push. The s...
Mar 15, 2021
China’s Geely to add $5 billion battery plant in EV push
BEIJING (Reuters) - Geely said on Monday it would build an electric vehicle battery factory with a planned annual manufacturing capacity of 42 gigawatt hours (GWh) in China's eastern city of Ganzhou, ...
Mar 15, 2021
Investors ignoring geopolitical risks to target undervalued Russian equities: analysts
By Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian companies are cashing in on a global equity boom, leveraging growth potential and low valuations as investors largely ignore geopolitical risks and the r...
Mar 15, 2021
Futures buoyed by optimism over U.S. economic growth
By Shashank Nayar and Medha Singh (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures climbed on Monday on optimism over a stimulus-fueled snapback in economic activity ahead of the Federal Reserve's policy-setting ...
Mar 15, 2021
Maduro seeks to speed up digital payments as Venezuela runs out of cash
By Corina Pons and Mayela Armas CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is pressing banks to implement digital payment systems as hyperinflation prompts chronic shortages of cash in th...
Mar 15, 2021
