What’s Ahead for the Stock Market and Economy in 2024? Roundtable Pros Weigh In.

What’s Ahead for the Stock Market and Economy in 2024? Roundtable Pros Weigh In.

It is always a stockpicker’s market. You just have to pick the right stocks. If you picked the so-called Magnificent Seven last year—a group of highflying, mostly tech stocks that powered the S&P 500 index to a 24% gain—you looked in the mirror and beheld a genius. This year, it might be wise to avoid … Read more

France on ‘high’ alert for bird flu after new cases detected

France on ‘high’ alert for bird flu after new cases detected

Ducks are seen inside a poultry farm in Castelnau-Tursan, France, January 24, 2023. REUTERS/Stephane Mahe/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights PARIS, Dec 5 (Reuters) – France raised the risk level of bird flu to ‘high’ from ‘moderate’ on Tuesday after new cases of the disease were detected, forcing poultry farms to keep birds indoors to stem … Read more

Munich flights, long-distance trains cancelled due to snow

Munich flights, long-distance trains cancelled due to snow

A person walks past a departures board inside the Munich Airport in Munich, Germany, March 26, 2023. REUTERS/Lukas Barth/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights Dec 2 (Reuters) – Long-distance trains and hundreds of flights in and out of the German city of Munich were cancelled on Saturday because of heavy snowfall, according to statements by Deutsche … Read more

Malaysia’s Sime Darby seeks to expand car retail business into India, Indonesia – CEO

Malaysia’s Sime Darby seeks to expand car retail business into India, Indonesia – CEO

A logo of Sime Darby is seen at its car showroom in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia November 30, 2023. REUTERS/Hasnoor Hussain/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights KUALA LUMPUR/SINGAPORE, Nov 30 (Reuters) – Sime Darby (SIME.KL), Malaysia’s industrial and automotive conglomerate, is looking to set up a luxury car retail business in India and expand in Indonesia to … Read more

Budget crisis shakes industry’s confidence in Germany

Budget crisis shakes industry’s confidence in Germany

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is flanked by Economy and Climate Minister Robert Habeck and Finance Minister Christian Lindner to comment on the ruling of Germany’s Constitutional court that the government’s re-location of 60 billion euros ($65 billion USD) of unused debt from the pandemic era to climate fund was illegal, in… Acquire Licensing Rights Read … Read more

EUROPE Nvidia shares take bumpy ride after hours

EUROPE Nvidia shares take bumpy ride after hours

The logo of NVIDIA as seen at its corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California, in May of 2022. Courtesy NVIDIA/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole. The early focus was on Nvidia (NVDA.O), which in AI tech terms is the only … Read more

Frankfurt builds up clearing volumes as EU seeks to pull business from London

Frankfurt builds up clearing volumes as EU seeks to pull business from London

A general view shows the German stock exchange (Deutsche Boerse) in Frankfurt, Germany, February 12, 2019. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights LONDON, Nov 21 (Reuters) – Deutsche Boerse’s (DB1Gn.DE) derivatives arm said on Tuesday that it has been building up volume in its Euribor futures contract in Frankfurt as the European Union vies with … Read more

Exclusive: Germany, France and Italy reach agreement on future AI regulation

Exclusive: Germany, France and Italy reach agreement on future AI regulation

AI (Artificial Intelligence) letters are placed on computer motherboard in this illustration taken June 23, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights No sanctions should be imposed, joint paper says Commitments would involve large and small providers European authority would monitor compliance BERLIN, Nov 18 (Reuters) – France, Germany and Italy have reached an agreement … Read more

Iran’s nuclear enrichment advances as it stonewalls UN, IAEA reports show

Iran’s nuclear enrichment advances as it stonewalls UN, IAEA reports show

[1/3]The logo of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is seen at the organisation’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria, June 5, 2023. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights Iran continues to enrich to 60% at rate of 3 kg a month Issues the IAEA is seeking urgent progress on are stuck Iran rebuffs Grossi request to … Read more

Germany set to double Ukraine military aid under Scholz plan -source

Germany set to double Ukraine military aid under Scholz plan -source

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz delivers a speech on the day of the opening of an electrolysis gigafactory in Berlin, Germany November 8, 2023. REUTERS/Annegret Hilse/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights FRANKFURT, Nov 11 (Reuters) – German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s governing coalition has agreed in principle to double the country’s military aid for Ukraine next year to … Read more