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By Matthias Williams and John O’Donnell LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces are finding a growing number of components from China in Russian weapons used in Ukraine, a senior adviser in President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office told Reuters, as Western supplies are squeezed by sanctions. In “the weapons recovered from the battlefield we continue to find different electronics,” said Vladyslav Vlasiuk, who advises the president’s chief of staff on sanctions policy. “The […]

By Khushi Mandowara and Bhanvi Satija (Reuters) -UnitedHealth Group Inc beat Wall Street targets for quarterly profit and raised its annual forecast on Friday, as the healthcare giant banks on “market-leading” membership growth in its federal government-backed health insurance plans. UnitedHealth is among the largest players in the Medicare Advantage market, where private insurers offer an alternative to the original Medicare – the federal government’s health insurance plan for people […]

(Reuters) – Manchester United may be without key defenders Lisandro Martinez and Raphael Varane in the coming weeks, but manager Erik ten Hag said Harry Maguire and Victor Lindelof can plug any gaps in the Premier League club’s backline. United were reduced to 10 men in Thursday’s 2-2 Europa League draw with Sevilla when defender Martinez was carried off injured, after fellow centre back Varane had to be replaced due […]

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Thursday approved exports of liquefied natural gas from the Alaska LNG project, a document showed, as the United States competes with Russia to ship natural gas from the Arctic to Asia. The Department of Energy approved Alaska Gasline Development Corp’s (AGDC) project to export LNG to countries with which the United States does not have a free trade agreement. Backers of […]

By Balazs Koranyi WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A growing number of European Central Bank policymakers are calling for the bank to stop reinvesting cash into its largest bond buying scheme, to help trim its balance sheet as part of efforts to tackle inflation, sources with direct knowledge said. The ECB is still sitting on 3.2 trillion euros of mostly government bonds held in its Asset Purchases Programme, bought during the low-inflation […]

By Isla Binnie NEW YORK (Reuters) – Firms find that investors penalize their stock less for high greenhouse gas emissions if they voluntarily disclose that data, researchers at Lazard’s climate center said on Friday. Regulators in the United States are working on rules for how companies provide information to help investors gauge their impact on the environment, as part of a broad drive to stem climate change from activities such […]

MADRID (Reuters) – A 74-year-old Spanish man accused of sending a series of letter bombs in late 2022 will be bailed under supervision on Friday, after a high court judge concluded there was no risk that he would re-offend. Pompeyo Gonzalez Pascual, who faces terrorism charges for allegedly sending primed letters to six institutions including the prime minister’s office and the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid, has been in jail since […]

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A private banking industry group in Singapore on Friday denied a media report that the city state had asked global banks to keep quiet on wealth inflows coming from China over the past year due to political sensitivity. The Financial Times reported earlier on Friday, citing unidentified people, that the “tacit directive” on China wealth inflows was given by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) during a […]

By Amanda Cooper LONDON (Reuters) -The dollar headed for its longest stretch of weekly losses in almost three years on Friday, as traders ramped up expectations of an imminent end to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s rate-hike cycle following signs that inflation may be cooling. Data on Thursday showed U.S. wholesale prices, as measured by the producer price index (PPI), fell by the most in nearly three years last month, a […]