Mar 06, 2024
Gold extends record run as rate cut bets gain ground

By Anjana Anil (Reuters) - Gold rallied to a record on Wednesday, building on stellar momentum driven mostly by bets for U.S. monetary easing, while autocatalyst palladium popped back above the $1,000 mark for the first time since Jan. 12.…

Mar 06, 2024
Explainer-Why retail has lost its sparkle for private equity firms

By Abigail Summerville NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private equity firms made billions of dollars betting on major U.S. retailers, clothing and accessories and restaurant chains, reshaping the consumer sector from the 1990s to the early 2010s. But over the past…

Mar 06, 2024
Egypt signs expanded $8 billion loan deal with IMF

By Aidan Lewis (Reuters) -The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Wednesday it would increase its current loan programme with Egypt by $5 billion, as the central bank let the pound plummet and said it would allow the currency to…

Mar 06, 2024
Trump, Biden dominate Super Tuesday contests as they march toward rematch

By Nathan Layne and Alexandra Ulmer PALM BEACH, Florida/HUNTINGTON BEACH, California (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump swept to victory in statewide nominating contests across the country on Tuesday, setting up a historic rematch in November's…

Mar 06, 2024
Elon Musk’s X escapes much of lawsuit over copyrighted songs

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, on Tuesday won the dismissal of most of a lawsuit by 17 music publishers that accused it of infringing copyrights on nearly 1,700 songs by letting people…

Mar 05, 2024
Mounting US rate cut bets fuel gold to record highs

By Anjana Anil and Ashitha Shivaprasad (Reuters) - Gold scaled a record high on Tuesday, moving further above $2,100 per ounce in a rally sparked by growing bets for a U.S. interest rate cut in June and on safe-haven demand…