By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - Bayer (OTC:BAYRY) on Tuesday said it won a trial in a lawsuit brought by a retired postal service worker in Pennsylvania who alleged he developed non-Hodgkins lymphoma from using the company\'s Roundup weedkiller. In addition to the jury verdict in the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, Bayer said a California...
The Canadian market ended flat on Tuesday after stocks turned in a mixed performance as investors awaited the Canadian central bank\'s monetary policy announcement. Technology and communications stocks fell, while energy stocks found support despite weak crude oil prices. The benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index, which opened slightly down but climbed to 21,622.99 subsequently, dropped to...
By Sinéad Carew and Bansari Mayur Kamdar (Reuters) -Wall Street three major indexes all retreated more than 1% on Tuesday, with weakness in megacap growth companies such as Apple Inc and the chip sector weighing most on the Nasdaq ahead of this week\'s crop of economic data and remarks from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell....
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore\'s biggest bank DBS Group (OTC:DBSDY) has grown its sustainable financing commitments, net of repayments, by 37.3% to 70 billion Singapore dollars ($52.10 billion) as of end-December, from S$51 billion in 2022, it said on Wednesday. DBS, which is also Southeast Asia\'s biggest bank by assets, reduced its thermal coal exposure by...
The U.S. dollar struggled to find support on Tuesday as weaker than expected economic data, including a reading on the nation\'s services sector activity, raised the possibility of a rate cut in June. Traders also looked ahead to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell\'s testimony before the House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday and the Senate...
By Elizabeth Howcroft and Hannah Lang LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) -As Tether toasts $100 billion in circulation this week, the rapid rise of the world\'s biggest stablecoin has highlighted concerns about potential risks to wider financial markets. The digital dollar-pegged token is designed to keep a constant value, something Tether says that it does by holding...
Australia will on Wednesday release Q4 figures for gross domestic product, highlighting a light day for Asia-Pacific economic activity. GDP is expected to rise 0.3 percent on quarter and 1.5 percent on year after adding 0.2 percent on quarter and 2.1 percent on year n the previous three months. Australia also will see January numbers...
By Roushni Nair (Reuters) -Australia\'s fourth-biggest bank ANZ Group said on Wednesday it had agreed to sell around 546 million shares, or 16.5% interest, in Malaysian lender AMMB Holdings (AmBank) for about 2.10 billion ringgit ($443.69 million). The sale of shares, made through a block trade, has been upsized to a 16.5% stake from 9%...
Australia\'s gross domestic product expanded a seasonally adjusted 0.2% on quarter in the fourth quarter of 2024, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday. That was in line with expectations and unchanged from the three months prior. On an annualized basis, GDP advanced 1.5 percent - exceeding expectations for 1.4 percent but slowing from...
AMITYVILLE, N.Y. - NAPCO Security Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSSC), a company specialized in electronic security devices and school safety solutions, announced the pricing of its secondary public offering of 2 million shares at $40.75 each. The shares are being offered by Richard L. Soloway, the company\'s Chairman and CEO. The transaction also includes an option...