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(Reuters) -Swiss fragrance and flavour maker Givaudan on Thursday reported quarterly like-for-like sales above expectations, saying it started the year with good business momentum while maintaining operations and global supply chain at a high level. Its first-quarter revenue rose 3.6% to 1.84 billion Swiss francs ($1.97 billion) on a like-for-like basis, compared with analysts’ average forecast of 1.80 billion francs in a poll compiled by the company. The sales growth […]

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -The abortion pill mifepristone will remain available in the United States while anti-abortion groups pursue a legal challenge seeking to ban it, but with significant restrictions including a requirement for in-person physician visits to obtain the drug, a federal appeals court ruled late on Wednesday. The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put on hold part of last Friday’s order by U.S. District Judge […]

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – The abortion pill mifepristone will remain available, with limitations, in the United States while anti-abortion groups pursue a legal challenge seeking to ban it, a federal appeals court ruled late Wednesday night. The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put on hold part of last Friday’s order by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas, that had suspended the U.S. Food and […]

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – The abortion pill mifepristone will remain available, with limitations, in the United States while anti-abortion groups pursue a legal challenge seeking to ban it, a federal appeals court ruled late Wednesday night. The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put on hold part of last Friday’s order by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, Texas, that had suspended the U.S. Food and […]

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook The euro emerged as the clearest winner of slowing U.S. inflation and a watchful Fed. The common currency climbed 0.7% on Wednesday and was still going at $1.10 in the Asian morning. It is up seven weeks in a row – the longest winning streak since the latter stages of 2020 when the dollar was falling […]

(Reuters) – Apple Inc has significantly increased its production of iPhones in India, accounting for almost 7% of its total iPhone production, up from 1% in 2021, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. The company assembled more than $7 billion worth of iPhones in the country in the last fiscal year, the report said. Apple did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. (Reporting by Kanjyik Ghosh in Bengaluru; […]

By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Ankur Banerjee TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese technology investor SoftBank Group Corp has moved to sell almost all of its remaining shares in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, the Financial Times reported, sending the Chinese e-commerce major’s stock tumbling. The sale would come as valuations of China’s big tech firms have started recovering this year after an end to two years of heightened regulatory scrutiny, providing a window for […]

By Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) – French unions have called on workers to walk off the job and join protest rallies on Thursday for a twelfth nationwide day of protests against a bill that will make the French work longer. Some trains will be cancelled, and strike actions can also be expected among refinery workers, garbage collectors and teachers, at a time when opinion polls show a wide majority of […]

PARIS (Reuters) – France’s Constitutional Council is due to deliver its verdict on Friday on a deeply unpopular bill which will delay retirement by two years to 64, and on plans for a referendum to challenge it. Here is why this matters and what could happen: VERDICT ON THE PENSION BILL * The Council can strike down the bill altogether if it considers it breaches the Constitution. Opposition parties have […]