The French company Pernod Ricard, the world's second-largest producer of alcoholic beverages after the British Diego, reported that, for the fiscal year ended June 30, its net profit rose 13% year-on-year to 1 billion 577 million euros, helped ...
The Norwegian oil and gas group Equinor, formerly Statoil, announced its intention to invest more than $15 billion in work in Brazil until 2030, finversia.ru wrote. It is reported that for the period of the company's operation in Brazil since ...
State-owned oil and gas company of Venezuela PDVSA reported that it reached an agreement with a number of local and foreign companies to increase oil production by 640,000 barrels per day in 14 fields. Venezuelan oil minister Manuel Quevedo ...
The external debt of Turkey is about $179 billion, or a quarter of the country's annual GDP. The maturity date will come in the course of the year ending in July 2019, analysts at JPMorgan report. It is noted that the bulk of the debt, about ...
Thomson Reuters Corp. said it would finalize a deal to sell the majority stake in its Financial&Risk division to the investment company Blackstone Group. On Tuesday, the corporation also launched a share buyback program worth $9 billion. ...
Iran is reducing oil supplies to the world market due to the approach of the timing of the introduction of US sanctions at a faster pace than it was expected, The Wall Street Journal writes. Officials at the state-owned company National ...
In August 2018, consumer prices in Germany rose by 1.9% year-on-year, which is the lowest inflation rate since April, according to preliminary data from Destatis. In July, inflation was at the level of 2.1%. Experts had expected price growth ...
The European Union is ready to lower to zero duties on manufactured goods, including cars, if the United States does the same, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said, speaking in the trade committee of the European Parliament. She noted ...
The net profit of the largest Chinese oil and gas company PetroChina in the first half of the year increased 2.1-fold year-on-year to 27 billion 90 million yuan. The indicator has become the highest since the second half of 2014. Revenue reached ...
The largest bank of China, Industrial&Commercial Bank of China, in the second quarter of 2018 increased its net profit by 5.8% year-on-year to 81 billion 600 million yuan. Quarterly growth was the fastest since the third quarter of 2014 ...
In August, the consolidated business and consumer confidence index in the euro area fell for the year to a minimum value of 111.6 points from 112.1 points in July, data of the European Commission showed. Analysts had predicted a decrease to ...
Last week, the number of US citizens, who had applied for unemployment benefits for the first time, increased by 3 thousand and amounted to 213 thousand people, the country's Ministry of Labor reported. Analysts had predicted an increase of ...
The Japanese company SoftBank will not participate in the IPO of the Shanghai manufacturer of electric vehicles NIO, finversia.ru wrote with reference to the message of Dow Jones. As previously reported by The Wall Street Journal, SoftBank ...
On Thursday, Bank of England published data according to which foreign investors in July sold a record volume of government bonds in the UK – to the value of 17 billion 153 million pounds sterling. A month earlier, non-residents had sold British ...
The American company Apple confirmed that it had acquired a start-up Akonia Holographics, specializing in the production of lenses for Augmented Reality glasses, Reuters reports. It is reported that Akonia, created in 2012, initially focused ...
The income of US citizens in July 2018 increased by 0.3% after rising 0.4% a month earlier, according to the data of the country's Ministry of Commerce. Expenses increased by 0.4%, as well as in June. Both indicators coincided with the forecasts ...
Chief investment director for non-traditional strategies of the investment company Pacific Investment Management, Mark Zinder, warned investors about the onset of increased volatility amid tightening of monetary policy in the world's largest ...
Target Corporation, which owns the second-largest discount network in the US, reported that its second-quarter net profit, which ended Aug. 4, rose 19% year-on-year to $799 million. Excluding one-off factors, earnings were 1 dollar 47 cents ...
On Wednesday, oil prices accelerated their growth, reaching maximum marks for the week, based on data on a sharp decline in US fuel inventories. As reported by the American Petroleum Institute, last week, oil reserves in the US fell by 5 million ...
Chinese electronics manufacturer Xiaomi Corporation following the results of the second quarter of 2018 recorded a net profit of 14 billion 630 million yuan against a loss of 11 billion 970 million yuan for the same quarter last year. The company's ...