BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s Peronist government is optimistic about gaining an extension on a $2.4 billion repayment to the Paris Club of country lenders, local media said on Sunday ahead of the deadline for the debt next week. Argentina’s center-left President Alberto Fernandez has been lobbying hard in recent weeks to defer the payment,…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer (finance minister) Rishi Sunak attends a virtual press conference inside 10 Downing Street in central London, Britain March 3, 2021. Tolga Akmen/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -British finance minister Rishi Sunak called for more progress on ensuring financial markets support lower greenhouse…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., May 27, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Board of Directors of Capital City Bank Group, Inc. (CCBG) – Get Report declared a quarterly cash dividend on its common stock of $.15 per share. The dividend produces an annualized rate of $.60 per common share and is payable on June 21 to shareowners of…
Germany and Norway officially opened NordLink on Thursday, a direct power cable between the two countries that will provide Europe’s largest economy with green energy at a time it is phasing out polluting coal power. Norway’s electricity production is almost exclusively hydropower-based and its large reservoirs mean it can control its renewable energy generation and…
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks after ceremonially swearing in Kristen Clarke as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice in Washington, U.S., May 25, 2021. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will meet top officials from 12 companies…
3/3 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Switzerland’s national flag and the European Union flag are seen at the European Commission building in Brussels, Belgium April 23, 2021. Francois Walschaerts/Pool via REUTERS//File Photo 2/3 By Michael Shields ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland will pay the price in lost exports, higher costs and diminished attractiveness as a business centre…
Mergers and acquisitions targeting technology companies have hit a record high in Asia Pacific, Dealogic data shows, and dealmakers expect this M&A pace to continue as the pandemic spurs a shift toward virtual activities in the economy. Tech M&A has totalled $136.2 billion in 2020, more than double the year-ago levels, according to data provider…
The dollar found support on Thursday from a sense that the Federal Reserve is slowly but surely edging towards a discussion about tightening monetary policy, while the yuan hit a three-year high as China’s central bank kept to the sidelines. Investors are heavily short dollars in the belief that U.S. trade and current account deficits…
Malaysia’s finance ministry said on Wednesday it had terminated the services of the chairman of the public transport operator amid an outcry over his response to a train accident in which more than 200 people were injured. On Monday, 47 commuters were severely hurt and 166 sustained minor injuries when two light rail metro trains…