By Mike Dolan
Feb 9 -
What matters in U.S. and global markets today
By Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Finance and Markets
Asian stocks climbed on Monday after Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s thumping election win on Sunday left her poised to enact a raft of expansionary fiscal measures.
Wall Street futures held steady after a sharp chipmaker-led rebound on Friday. Attention now shifts to... (continue reading...)
By Rajendra Jadhav and Mayank Bhardwaj
NEW DELHI, Feb 9 (Reuters) - The United States and India have released an interim framework for a trade deal, paving the way for an agreement that would lower tariffs, reconfigure energy ties and deepen economic cooperation as both seek to realign global supply chains.
The India–U.S. joint statement suggested that New Delhi pushed back against Washington's efforts to broadly open its agricultural... (continue reading...)
LONDON, Feb 9 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told his staff on Monday that politics should be a force for good and emphasised the importance of moving forward, following the resignation of his chief of staff and director of communications.
Starmer's top aide Morgan McSweeney quit on Sunday over his role in backing Peter Mandelson over his known links to Jeffrey Epstein. His director of communications Tim Allan resigned earlier... (continue reading...)
By Layli Foroudi
PARIS, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Migrants deported from Britain to France under the new "one-in one-out" scheme did not have enough access to translators, legal advice or information about what would happen to them next, inspectors said in a report published on Monday.
Twenty people removed on a flight in November were offered a translator who spoke Arabic and French, but hardly any of them knew those languages, the UK prison... (continue reading...)
By Felix Light
ALMATY, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Freedom Holding, a Kazakhstan-based financial services company, is considering a secondary public offering of shares in Hong Kong to help fund expansion plans, its CEO Timur Turlov told Reuters.
The U.S.-listed group plans to expand outside its traditional Central Asian markets and is looking to acquire or found banks in Europe and Turkey and mulling expansion in Pakistan, Turlov said in an... (continue reading...)
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