By Jorgelina do Rosario and Rodrigo Campos WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Colombia is looking to issue a green bond before the end of 2023, likely in dollars, and could tap traditional credit markets again this year if borrowing costs fall, Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo said on Friday. He said the amounts were not set yet, …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump will not learn the identities of jurors expected to decide at an upcoming civil trial whether the former president defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll, who also claims Trump raped her. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan on Friday rejected Trump’s renewed effort to require …
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By Leika Kihara WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China’s central bank governor on Friday took a swipe at efforts by Western economies to trade more with allies and rely less on the world’s largest goods-exporting country, saying such “friend-shoring” attempts could prevent global supply chain tension from easing. Reducing their deep dependence on supply chains with China …
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By Leika Kihara WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Chang-yong said on Friday the biggest challenge for emerging market central banks could be to deal with a return of secular stagnation and low interest rates, rather than combatting higher inflation. “In terms of our strategy in coping with higher inflation, we’re following the …
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudanese medics said on Friday that at least 22 people had been shot and killed in violence in West Darfur state over the past week. The violence in the town of Forbaranga is the latest in growing tribal violence across Sudan’s peripheries and in West Darfur in particular. Clashes have intensified since …
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(This April 13 story has been corrected to fix initial investment amount to 1.08 trillion yen ($8.1 billion) from 1.8 trillion yen ($13.5 billion) in the headline and paragraph 1) By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan on Friday approved a plan to build the country’s first casino in the western city of Osaka, paving …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s stock market watchdog Consob is scrutinising the government’s CEO nominee at defence group Leonardo after an opposition lawmaker raised potential conflict-of-interest issues, sources at the regulator said on Friday. Italy’s Treasury on Wednesday tapped former Energy and Environment Minister Roberto Cingolani to take charge of Leonardo, as part of a round …
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By Karen Brettell NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar index bounced off a one-year low against a basket of currencies on Friday after some March retail sales components were not as weak as some economists had feared, while a key Federal Reserve official warned that the U.S. central bank needs to continue hiking interest rates …
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TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian football player Nizar Issaoui, 35, has died from burns suffered after setting himself alight earlier this week as a protest against “police injustice”, his family said on Friday. Clashes erupted between police and angry protesters in Haffouz, the hometown‮ ‬of Issaoui. Police fired gas to disperse the protesters who had gathered …
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By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) -Oil prices were up on Friday and secured a fourth straight week of gains after the West’s energy watchdog said global demand will hit a record high this year on the back of a recovery in Chinese consumption. The International Energy Agency (IEA) also warned that deep output cuts …
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