Article content Sri Lankan shares closed lower on Monday, hurt by losses in industrial and financial stocks. * The CSE All-Share index closed 1.45% lower at 8,602.16, exchange data showed. The index had closed down 0.84% on Friday, but saw a weekly gain of 0.5%. Article content * Sri Lanka’s key inflation rate slowed to […]
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: Reuters Herbert Lash Article content NEW YORK — Treasury yields edged higher on Monday as a relatively strong U.S. economy and labor Financial Post Top Stories Sign up to receive the daily top stories from the Financial Post, a division of Postmedia Network Inc. By clicking […]
Article content PRAGUE — The European Union asked the United States on Monday to treat EU electric vehicles, batteries and sustainable energy equipment sold in the United States the same as those from Canada and Mexico, Czech trade minister Jozef Sikela said. The 27-nation EU has been complaining the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act effectively discriminates […]
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: Article content The European Union called on Russia to reverse its decision to pull out of a U.N.-brokered grain deal, a move that undermined efforts to ease a global food crisis and that Ukraine said Moscow had planned well in advance. GRAIN DEAL Financial Post Top […]
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: Reuters Anthony Boadle Publishing date: Oct 30, 2022 • 55 minutes ago • 4 minute read • Join the conversation Article content BRASILIA, Oct 30 (Reuters) – A polarized Brazilian electorate began casting votes on Sunday in a knife-edge presidential runoff that pits far-right incumbent President Jair […]
Article content Russia’s defense ministry said British navy personnel blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines last month, a claim that London said was false and designed to distract from Russian military failures in Ukraine. Russia did not give evidence for its claim. The ministry said “British specialists” from the same unit directed Ukrainian drone […]
Article content LONDON — Britain on Saturday denied Russian claims that British navy personnel blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines last month, calling them “false claims of an epic scale.” “To detract from their disastrous handling of the illegal invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defence is resorting to peddling false claims of […]
Article content UK’s incoming National Lottery operator Allwyn Entertainment is in talks to buy former operator Camelot’s UK operations, the companies said in a joint statement on Saturday. An agreement could be struck in the coming weeks, with a deal valued by up to 100 million pounds ($116.10 million), Sky News reported, citing sources. Article […]
Article content WASHINGTON — Contracts to buy U.S. previously owned homes fell for a fourth straight month in September as the housing market continued to buckle under the strain of higher mortgage rates. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) said on Friday its Pending Home Sales Index, based on signed contracts, dropped 10.2% to 79.5 […]
Breadcrumb Trail Links PMN Business Author of the article: Reuters Rachel More Publishing date: Oct 28, 2022 • 11 minutes ago • 2 minute read • Join the conversation Article content BERLIN — Germany staved off the threat of recession in the third quarter with unexpected growth but the economy remained in choppy waters as high […]