SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is widely expected to leave benchmark lending rates unchanged on Monday, a Reuters survey showed, as encouraging first quarter economic data reduces the urgency for further monetary stimulus to aid a fragile recovery. A ...

(Reuters) - Just when it looked like rate cuts were coming any minute now, inflation has reared its head and the strength of the dollar is forcing other central bankers to protect their currencies and reconsider their policy choices. What ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Norway's $1.6 trillion sovereign wealth fund, one of the world's largest investors, said on Friday it would again vote in favour of a resolution calling for a split of the CEO and board chair roles at Goldman Sachs. Proxy ...

PARIS (Reuters) - Shares in L'Oreal rose more than 4% % in early Friday trading after the French cosmetics giant reported a 9.4% rise in first quarter sales on a like-for-like basis on Thursday evening, beating expectations of 6.1% growth. By ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin's long-anticipated 'halving' is, depending on where you sit, a vital event that will burnish the cryptocurrency's value as an increasingly scarce commodity, or little more than a technical change talked up by ...

By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin enthusiasts were eagerly waiting for bitcoin's 'halving' on Friday - a change to the cryptocurrency's underlying technology designed to cut the rate at which new bitcoins are created. The halving, ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nissan Motor slashed its annual operating profit estimate by 14.5% on Friday citing lower-than-expected vehicle sales and other factors. Japan's third-largest automaker by volume now estimates an operating profit of 530 billion ...

By Karin Strohecker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistan hopes to agree the contours of a new International Monetary Fund loan in May, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb told Reuters, and has kicked off talks with ratings agencies to lay the ...

(Removes reference to sales stagnating for second month in a row after February sales were revised to show 0.1% growth) LONDON (Reuters) -British retail sales volumes stagnated in March, the Office for National Statistics said on Friday. Economists ...

By Gavin Maguire LITTLETON, Colorado (Reuters) - Wholesale power prices coming under pressure from surging solar output is not a new concept in power markets, but looks set to become a potentially divisive issue across Europe as rampant ...