Investing.com – India equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Real Estate, Metals and IT sectors propelled shares higher. At the close in NSE, the Nifty 50 added 1.00%, while the BSE Sensex 30 index gained 0.95%. The biggest gainers of the session on the Nifty 50 were Wipro Ltd (NS:WIPR), which rose 5.70%...
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By Jeffrey Dastin and Krystal Hu (Reuters) - In 2021, Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) is poised to face a renewed challenge from groups it has long countered: unions. Energized by protests at Amazon's U.S. warehouses and a more labor-friendly administration assuming office, unions are campaigning at the world's largest online retailer to see if its warehouse or grocery workers would like to join...
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's retail industry lobby group warned on Wednesday that until a backlog of trucks at the port of Dover is cleared and supply chains return to normal there could be issues with the availability of some fresh goods. A partial blockade by France designed to stop the spread of a new highly infectious coronavirus variant has left thousands of...
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - The gap between British and European Union negotiators on the remaining Brexit sticking point of fishing rights is still wide, but enough progress has been made that a deal is still likely, Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin said on Wednesday. "The gap is still wide on fish. You will have read that the European Union put 25% on the...
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ROTTERDAM (Reuters) - With the clock running down on negotiations over a Brexit trade deal, Dutch fruit and vegetable exporters fear that a failure to strike an agreement could lead to long customs queues and fresh produce rotting in trucks. The Netherlands exported about 2 billion euros' ($2.4 billion) worth of fruit and...
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Lufthansa and its pilots have reached an agreement that secures jobs until end-March 2022 and could help reduce costs by as much as 450 million euros ($548 million), pilots' union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) said on Wednesday. Agreements on reduced working hours will be extended until the end of next year, said VC, which represents Lufthansa's roughly 5,000 pilots, adding...
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By Paresh Dave and Jeffrey Dastin OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Inc's Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists' papers by launching a "sensitive topics" review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications and interviews with researchers involved in the work. Google's new review...
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By Lisa Baertlein and Jonathan Saul LOS ANGELES/LONDON (Reuters) - Amazon seller Bernie Thompson shifted half of his production out of China to reduce his business risks and still found himself in the crosshairs of logistical chaos besetting the movement of goods around the globe. A surge in demand for furniture, exercise...
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MILAN (Reuters) - A consortium led by Italy's state lender Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) has sent Atlantia a new non-binding offer to buy its 88% stake in toll-road unit Autostrade per l'Italia, CDP said in a statement on Wednesday. The consortium, which includes Macquarie and Blackstone (NYSE:BX), will proceed swiftly with its due diligence but needs further in-depth analysis to be...
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PARIS (Reuters) - There is no risk of a shortage of products in France following a ban imposed on freight coming from Britain because of a new strain of coronavirus, French European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune told BFM TV on Wednesday. Much of the world shut its borders to Britain this week after the fast-spreading variant of the virus was reported, with...
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