By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s housing market got a boost from Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s big election win in December, a survey showed on Thursday, a pick-up that will be noted by the Bank of England as it considers whether to cut interest rates this month. Agreed home sales rose for the first […]
By Gram Slattery and Gary McWilliams RIO DE JANEIRO/HOUSTON (Reuters) – A former trader at oil firm Petrobras has signed a plea bargain agreement with Brazilian prosecutors investigating bribery allegations, defense lawyers and prosecutors said, a potential breakthrough in a case involving some of the world’s top commodity trading houses. Rodrigo Garcia Berkowitz, who was […]
(This story had been refiled to add missing words in paragraph 16 of story first published April 9.) By Dhara Ranasinghe and Ritvik Carvalho LONDON (Reuters) – Will be it a U? A V? Maybe a W? Predictions for economic recovery after coronavirus-linked lockdowns are throwing up a medley of letters to indicate whether we […]
