Morning Bid: Bank of Japan excites, Dow unlucky, Intel jumps

Morning Bid: Bank of Japan excites, Dow unlucky, Intel jumps

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan The Bank of Japan added its own twist to a week of rising central bank interest rates on Friday, and it proved an unlucky 13 for Dow Jones bluechips (.DJI) on Wall St. The BOJ’s long-awaited tweak of its ultra-easy bond-buying … Read more

Le Gabon lance un appel d’offres pour le premier échange dette-nature d’Afrique

Le Gabon lance un appel d’offres pour le premier échange dette-nature d’Afrique

LONDRES/JOHANNESBURG, 25 juillet (Reuters) – Le Gabon a lancé mardi ce qui sera le premier échange dette-nature d’Afrique, avec un plan visant à racheter au moins 450 millions de dollars de sa dette publique et à l’échanger contre une obligation bleue écologique. Les plages et les eaux côtières du Gabon abritent la plus grande population … Read more

L’Irak condamne l’incinération du Coran à Copenhague, affirme que le personnel de la mission danoise a quitté Bagdad

L’Irak condamne l’incinération du Coran à Copenhague, affirme que le personnel de la mission danoise a quitté Bagdad

[1/2]Des manifestants des « patriotes danois » manifestent devant l’ambassade d’Irak à Copenhague, Danemark, le 24 juillet 2023 Ritzau Scanpix/Thomas Sjoerup/via REUTERS DUBAÏ/COPENHAGUE, 24 juillet (Reuters) – L’Irak a condamné lundi l’incendie d’un exemplaire du Coran devant son ambassade au Danemark et a déclaré que le personnel de l’ambassade danoise à Bagdad avait quitté le … Read more

L’indonésien Pupuk Kaltim en pourparlers pour racheter les activités d’engrais de l’australien Incitec Pivot: sources

L’indonésien Pupuk Kaltim en pourparlers pour racheter les activités d’engrais de l’australien Incitec Pivot: sources

SINGAPOUR/SYDNEY, 24 juillet (Reuters) – La société publique indonésienne d’engrais PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur (PUPUK.UL), ou Pupuk Kaltim, est en pourparlers pour acquérir l’activité engrais de l’Australien Incitec Pivot Ltd (IPL.AX), ont déclaré deux sources proches du dossier. Pupuk Kaltim, qui est le plus grand fabricant d’engrais à base d’urée en Asie du Sud-Est, a … Read more

L’OTAN et l’Ukraine discuteront de la question des céréales de la mer Noire à la demande de Zelenskiy

L’OTAN et l’Ukraine discuteront de la question des céréales de la mer Noire à la demande de Zelenskiy

22 juillet (Reuters) – L’OTAN et l’Ukraine discuteront la semaine prochaine de la sécurité de la mer Noire, en particulier de l’exploitation d’un corridor d’exportation de céréales, à la demande du président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a annoncé samedi l’alliance occidentale. Le porte-parole de l’OTAN, Oanu Lungescu, a déclaré que le Conseil OTAN-Ukraine, mis en place … Read more

Algeria asks to join the BRICS and would contribute $1.5 billion to the group’s bank

Algeria asks to join the BRICS and would contribute $1.5 billion to the group’s bank

TUNIS, July 21 (Reuters) – Algeria has applied to join the BRICS group and has applied to become a shareholder member of BRICS Bank for $1.5 billion, Ennahar TV quoted Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune as saying. He added that Tebboune said at the end of his visit to China that Algeria had sought to join … Read more

India landslide death toll reaches 22, search for survivors to resume on Saturday

India landslide death toll reaches 22, search for survivors to resume on Saturday

MUMBAI, July 21 (Reuters) – The death toll from a landslide in the western Indian state of Maharashtra rose to 22 on Friday, and six more bodies were pulled from underground layers of mud before rescue operations were suspended, disaster relief officials said. The landslide occurred on Thursday evening in the remote mountain hamlet of … Read more

Erdogan says talks with Putin could lead to restoration of Black Sea grain deal, media report

Erdogan says talks with Putin could lead to restoration of Black Sea grain deal, media report

ANKARA, July 21 (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said his scheduled talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin could lead to the restoration of the Black Sea Grain Initiative and called on Western countries to heed Russia’s demands, Turkish broadcasters reported on Friday. “The termination of the Black Sea grain deal will have a range … Read more

Russian Navy practices firing rockets at ships in Black Sea after warning Ukraine

Russian Navy practices firing rockets at ships in Black Sea after warning Ukraine

[1/3]A still from video, released by Russia’s Defense Ministry, shows what it said was the missile ship Ivanovets during exercises in the Black Sea, in this still from video released July 21, 2023. Russian Defense Ministry/Handout via REUTERS MOSCOW, July 21 (Reuters) – Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Friday its Black Sea Fleet had practiced … Read more

Zelenskiy sacks Ukraine’s ambassador to UK after criticism

Zelenskiy sacks Ukraine’s ambassador to UK after criticism

[1/2]Ukraine’s Ambassador to Britain Vadym Prystaiko arrives for a radio interview in Westminster, London, Britain April 8, 2022. REUTERS/Tom Nicholson/File Photo KYIV, July 21 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy sacked Vadym Prystaiko as Ukraine’s ambassador to Britain on Friday, days after the envoy publicly criticized the president. A presidential order, which said Prystaiko had also … Read more