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Exclusive: BlackRock injects $18 billion into European firms during pandemic – source
By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) - The world's biggest asset manager BlackRock has pumped about 16 billion euros ($18 billion) into 810 European companies since the end of January, more than half of t...
Jun 15, 2020
Hisense to start TV set production in Slovenia in January
LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - China's household appliances maker Hisense plans to start producing TV sets in Slovenia in January 2021, creating about 350 jobs in the country, Hisense said on Monday. Productio...
Jun 15, 2020
Mexican president says he would sell gasoline to Venezuela if asked
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday his country would sell gasoline to Venezuela, if asked to do so, for "humanitarian" reasons, despite a raft of U.S....
Jun 15, 2020
Head of Malaysia’s PNB steps down, cites concern for wellbeing of family
By Liz Lee KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's largest asset manager Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB) has accepted the resignation of its president and group chief executive, effective immediately, it sa...
Jun 15, 2020
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is willing to testify before congress: letter
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos is willing to testify to a congressional panel investigating potential violations of antitrust law by big tech firms, according to a letter to ...
Jun 15, 2020
EU imposes tariffs on Chinese makers of glass fibre fabric in China and Egypt
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union imposed tariffs on Chinese producers of glass fibre fabric in China and Egypt after finding they had benefited from unfair subsidies that allowed them to sell a...
Jun 15, 2020
LSE offers no concessions to avert deeper EU probe of Refinitiv deal: sources
By Foo Yun Chee and Pamela Barbaglia BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - The London Stock Exchange will not offer concessions to EU antitrust regulators reviewing its $27 billion bid for data and analytics co...
Jun 15, 2020
Amazon says CEO Bezos willing to testify before Congress: NYT
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos is willing to testify before a House antitrust investigation into the market power of major tech companies, the New York Times reported ht...
Jun 15, 2020
France’s Givenchy names Matthew Williams as new designer
PARIS (Reuters) - French couture house Givenchy, owned by luxury goods giant LVMH and known for once dressing Hollywood stars such as Audrey Hepburn, said on Monday it had named Matthew Williams as it...
Jun 15, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court rules for pipeline in Appalachian Trail dispute
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ruling against environmentalists, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided that the federal government has the authority to allow a proposed $7.5 billion natu...
Jun 15, 2020
