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Oil firms secure injunctions to stop UK climate protests

LONDON (Reuters) – Three firms involved in Britain’s oil sector, including ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM), have secured injunctions to stop protests by climate change activists which have caused widespread disruption this month,.

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Russian cenbank says wants rouble rate to be determined by market

(Reuters) – The Russian central bank has imposed foreign exchange controls to support liquidity but aims to preserve market pricing principles and a rouble exchange rated determined by the market,.

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Investors turn to defensive stocks as economic concerns grow

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stock investors worried geopolitical uncertainty and the Federal Reserve’s fight against inflation could dent economic growth are heading for defensive sectors they.

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Ukraine’s prime minister, finance officials to visit Washington next week

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and top Ukrainian finance officials will visit Washington next week during the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund.

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China March new home prices stall again as COVID damps sentiment

BEIJING (Reuters) -Growth in new home prices in China was flat again in March versus the previous month, government data showed on Friday, pointing to fragile demand as growing COVID-19.

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Japan consumer inflation seen picking up, still distant from BOJ target: Reuters poll

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s core consumer inflation likely accelerated in March from a year earlier but was still well short of the Bank of Japan’s price goal, a Reuters poll.

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Japan’s cenbank is not aiming to manipulate currency, PM says

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said the central bank’s monetary policy is aimed at achieving its 2% inflation target, not at manipulating currency rates, brushing.

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Hawkish Fedspeak keeps dollar king, yen slumps to 20-year low

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The dollar rose to a two-decade peak against the yen and kept close to a two-year high to the euro on Friday, as more.

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Fed’s Mester says it’s ‘imperative’ to get inflation down

(Reuters) – Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank President Loretta Mester on Thursday pushed back against the idea that by raising interest rates the Fed is prioritizing its goal of achieving 2%.

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Far-right candidate Le Pen calls Macron France’s most “authoritarian” president

PARIS (Reuters) – French far-right presidential candidate Marin Le Pen rebuffed on Thursday criticism by her rival Emmanuel Macron accusing her of retaining her “authoritarian” and extremist views, despite displaying.

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