(Reuters) - European stocks edged higher on Thursday after strong forecasts from AI darling Nvidia lifted global chipmakers, while investors awaited the latest business surveys to gauge the euro zone economy's outlook and interest rate path.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index was up 0.2%, as of 0711 GMT, with the tech index gaining 1.2% to lead sectoral gains.
Shares of European semiconductor stocks including ASML, Infineon and ASM rose in... (continue reading...)
PARIS (Reuters) - France's private sector unexpectedly shrank in May after expanding in April, with the dominant services industry joining manufacturing in reporting a contraction in activity, a preliminary survey showed on Thursday.
The HCOB flash purchasing managers index for the services sector, compiled by S&P Global, fell to 49.4 from 51.3 the month before, well below the 51.6 forecast in a Reuters poll.
Any figure below 50 marks a... (continue reading...)
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has detained the deputy head of the army's general staff Lieutenant General Vadim Shamarin, on suspicion of large-scale bribe-taking, Russian media reported on Thursday, the latest in a series of arrests of top military officials.
The Kommersant newspaper reported that Shamarin had been detained in connection with alleged fraud, and that his home had been searched.
It is the fourth arrest of a high-ranking... (continue reading...)
By Mei Mei Chu
BEIJING (Reuters) - China, the world's biggest agriculture importer, has set targets to drastically reduce its reliance on overseas buying over the coming decade in line with its push for food security, but they will be exceedingly difficult to meet, experts say.
With limited land and water, China will have to sharply increase farming productivity through technology, including genetically modified crops, and expand area... (continue reading...)
By Kate Abnett and Riham Alkousaa
BRUSSELS/DRESDEN, Germany (Reuters) - Millions of young people took to the streets across Europe in 2019 demanding action to fight climate change, helping Green parties secure their best ever EU election results and giving them influence over climate policies Brussels has passed since.
That looks set to change. Polls suggest Greens will perform worse than any other political grouping in June's EU... (continue reading...)
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