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PARIS (Reuters) -France’s Remy Cointreau is approaching its 2022/2023 fiscal year with confidence after organic sales rose 27% in the first quarter, beating expectations, the firm said on Tuesday. The maker of Remy Martin cognac and Cointreau liqueur s…

ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss bank UBS posted on Tuesday a smaller-than-expected rise in second-quarter net profit as its investment banking and wealth management businesses struggled in tough market conditions. Profit in the three months ended June rose 5%…

(Reuters) – French vouchers and cards provider Edenred targets record-high core profit for 2022, it said on Tuesday, being better placed than ever to generate sustainable and profitable growth in a new macro-economic context. Vouchers and cards provide…

(Reuters) -Dutch recruitment firm Randstad reported an 18% jump in second-quarter core profit on Tuesday, broadly in line with analysts’ expectations, as companies continued to compete for workers. The group’s underlying earnings before interest, taxes…

(Reuters) – Laura Kenny, Britain’s five-time Olympic gold medallist, said she contemplated walking away from cycling at the start of this year after a miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy left her at “breaking point”. Kenny said in April she had miscarrie…

BELFAST (Reuters) – Few Nobel laureates can have endured as much vitriol during their careers as David Trimble, the one-time hardliner who led Northern Ireland’s Protestant majority into a historic peace pact with their Catholic rivals and who died on …

By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar was lower against a basket of major currencies on Monday, as investors weighed the implications of a rate hike by the U.S. Federal Reserve in an economy that may be on the verge of a recession. The c…

(Reuters) -Paul Sorvino, who played the role of gangster Paulie Cicero in classic mob movie “Goodfellas,” has died at the age of 83, a spokesperson for the actor said on Monday. Sorvino, also known for portraying police sergeant Phil Cerretta on TV ser…

BELFAST (Reuters) -Former Northern Irish first minister David Trimble, a pro-British leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998 for his role as a key architect in ending three decade of bloodshed in the region, has died aged 77, his family said on Mo…

By Sinéad Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. equities were choppy on Monday with Nasdaq in decline ahead of a big week of technology earnings reports while oil prices rose and treasury yields edged higher as investors braced for a Federal Reserve interest…