by Reuters | Nov 30, 2020 | Business, Europe, Politics, UK, US
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain handed a 2.4 billion pound ($3.20 billion) contract to BAE Systems on Monday, agreeing a new deal with the country’s biggest defence company for the supply of weapons to help keep jobs and boost investment in its pandemic-hit...
by Reuters | Nov 30, 2020 | Asia, Business, Economy, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, UK, US
By Brijesh Patel (Reuters) – Oil prices will struggle to gain upward traction next year as demand remains in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic despite growing optimism over vaccines and a likely extension of output cuts by top producers, a Reuters poll showed...
by Reuters | Nov 30, 2020 | Business, Economy, Europe, Middle East, UK, US
By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin LONDON (Reuters) – Oil prices tumbled on Monday on uncertainty about whether OPEC+ would agree to extend large output cuts at talks this week, but vaccine hopes still kept benchmark crudes on track to rise more than a fifth in November....
by Reuters | Nov 30, 2020 | Asia, Business, Europe, UK
By Carolyn Cohn and Iain Withers LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s biggest domestic lender Lloyds Banking Group has named Charlie Nunn, currently head of wealth and personal banking at rival HSBC, as its next chief executive. Nunn will replace long-standing...
by Reuters | Nov 30, 2020 | Business, Europe, UK
(Reuters) – British drugmaker Indivior Plc said on Monday it would “vigorously defend” against a 1.07 billion pound ($1.43 billion) legal claim from consumer good maker Reckitt Benckiser Group relating to their demerger agreement. The company...
by Reuters | Nov 30, 2020 | Business, Europe, Top News, UK, US
(Reuters) – Data giant S&P Global Inc is nearing a deal to buy IHS Markit Ltd, according to a person familiar with the matter, creating a heavyweight in the increasingly competitive market for financial information. The deal could be announced as soon as...
