FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Nine euro zone banks ate into their capital buffers last year, making use of leeway granted by supervisors to help them cope with the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, the ECB said on Thursday. "Nine banks are making use of the relief measures...
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By Ben Makori BLEAN WOODS, England (Reuters) - Conservationists in England are looking for the country's first ever rangers to look after European bison, Europe's largest land mammal, which is being introduced to Kent more than 15,000 years after its ancestors roamed the landscape. Kent Wildlife Trust and the Wildwood Trust are...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Hungarian airline Wizz Air sunk to a 114.5 million euro quarterly loss on Thursday, after a second wave of COVID-19 spread across Europe limiting travel and said capacity would be depressed until March. Wizz said its revenue fell 76.5% to 149.9 million euros in the three months ended Dec. 31, its third quarter, on passenger numbers that were down...
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Investing.com – Japan equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Paper & Pulp, Railway & Bus and Real Estate sectors propelled shares lower. At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 lost 1.53%. The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were Rakuten Inc (T:4755), which rose 7.53% or 74.0 points to...
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(Reuters) - Food ingredients maker Tate & Lyle (LON:TATE) on Thursday said it expects modestly higher annual adjusted pretax profit in constant currency, benefiting from its food and beverage solutions and commodities businesses, and cost savings. The British company, one of the world's biggest producers of sweeteners such as high...
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Stryker (NYSE:SYK) reported on Wednesday fourth quarter earnings that beat analysts' forecasts and revenue that fell short of expectations. Stryker announced earnings per share of $2.81 on revenue of $4.26B. Analysts polled by Investing.com anticipated EPS of $2.55 on revenue of $4.34B. Stryker shares are down 6% from the beginning of the year and are trading at...
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By Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) - Making money by betting a company's shares will sink in value has become more challenging in recent weeks as markets rocketed higher and a growing wave of investors became ready to take on short sellers at almost any cost - even threatening their lives. Short sellers - contrarian...
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By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian regulator is considering letting internet users choose what personal data companies like Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) share with advertisers, as part of the country's attempts to shatter the dominance of tech titans. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) also proposed limiting the internet giants' ability to access users' online histories to cross-sell products. The proposals...
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(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell gave no indication he hopes to extend the central bank’s ongoing emergency lending programs, or to revive programs that were recently forced to close. “We’re going to continue to monitor financial and credit conditions throughout the economy, and if the kind of emergency conditions arise that are...
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(Bloomberg) -- WallStreetBets, the internet forum fueling a frenzy of retail trading, briefly turned itself off to new users Wednesday after a deluge of new participants raised concerns about its ability to moderate content, a notice on the website said. The WallStreetBets home page went dark to all users for a little over an hour Wednesday evening in New York. A message on...
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