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By Ivana Sekularac and Andreas Rinke TIVAT, Montenegro, June 5 (Reuters) – The European Union must show it is willing and able to take in new members, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday as the bloc’s leaders gathered with Western Balkan counterparts hoping to join in the coming years. Enlargement has risen up ​the EU agenda due to Russia’s war against Ukraine, with Kyiv keen to join the ​bloc to anchor itself […]

By Ivana Sekularac and Andreas Rinke TIVAT, Montenegro, June 5 (Reuters) – The European Union must show it is willing and able to take in new members, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday as the bloc’s leaders gathered with Western Balkan counterparts hoping to join in the coming years. Enlargement has risen up ​the EU agenda due to Russia’s war against Ukraine, with Kyiv keen to join the ​bloc to anchor itself […]

By Ben Ezeamalu YAWOTA, Nigeria, June 5 (Reuters) – It was mid-morning when Aduke Balogun noticed a masked man in military fatigues walking towards her children’s school. Minutes later, gunfire erupted, more gunmen appeared and residents fled. In the chaos, her six-year-old daughter Feranmi managed to escape but another daughter, eight-year-old Kausarat, was not so lucky – one of more than 30 students and a teacher seized and spirited into […]

By Ben Ezeamalu YAWOTA, Nigeria, June 5 (Reuters) – It was mid-morning when Aduke Balogun noticed a masked man in military fatigues walking towards her children’s school. Minutes later, gunfire erupted, more gunmen appeared and residents fled. In the chaos, her six-year-old daughter Feranmi managed to escape but another daughter, eight-year-old Kausarat, was not so lucky – one of more than 30 students and a teacher seized and spirited into […]

By Anna Szymanski June 5 (Reuters) – Everything Mike Dolan and the ROI team are excited to read, watch and listen to over the weekend. From the Editor Hello Morning Bid readers! Markets entered this week riding high as traders held out hopes for both an end to the three-month-old Iran conflict and an unabated AI boom. But they were disappointed on both fronts. While the AI frenzy helped boost […]

By Anna Szymanski June 5 (Reuters) – Everything Mike Dolan and the ROI team are excited to read, watch and listen to over the weekend. From the Editor Hello Morning Bid readers! Markets entered this week riding high as traders held out hopes for both an end to the three-month-old Iran conflict and an unabated AI boom. But they were disappointed on both fronts. While the AI frenzy helped boost […]

June 5 (Reuters) – Global equity fund inflows surged to a three-week high in the week to June 3 as a set of robust earnings in the technology sector and investor enthusiasm over the AI boom bolstered demand. According to LSEG Lipper data, global equity funds attracted a net $21.44 billion during the week, the largest amount since May 13. Dell and HP reported blockbuster results and rallied 42.6% and […]

June 5 (Reuters) – Global equity fund inflows surged to a three-week high in the week to June 3 as a set of robust earnings in the technology sector and investor enthusiasm over the AI boom bolstered demand. According to LSEG Lipper data, global equity funds attracted a net $21.44 billion during the week, the largest amount since May 13. Dell and HP reported blockbuster results and rallied 42.6% and […]

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters) – Federal Reserve officials’ waning concern about the job market, so intense at the start of the year that it supported calls by many of them for interest rate cuts, will be tested on Friday with new data that also frames the opening debate of Kevin Warsh’s term as head of the U.S. central bank. Economists polled by Reuters expect U.S. employers created […]