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By Robert Harvey and Natalie Grover

LONDON (Reuters) - Global physical crude oil markets are weakening because of soft refinery demand and ample supply, traders and analysts told Reuters, in a move that could spell further weakness for benchmark crude futures.

The weakness indicates high interest rates and inflation are depressing consumer and industrial demand, especially in Europe, at a time when supply is rising from non-OPEC... (continue reading...)

By Eric Onstad and Julian Luk

LONDON (Reuters) - Copper's lightning rally to record highs may not be sustainable in the coming weeks, with action concentrated on the shipment of material to cover exposed short positions in the U.S. Comex futures market rather than tepid demand in top consumer China.

Prices on the CME Group's Comex hit a record last week, while benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange (LME) rocketed on Monday to an... (continue reading...)

By Pete Schroeder

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. bank regulators are reconsidering how much liquidity banks should be required to have on hand following a series of abrupt bank failures in 2023, the Federal Reserve's top regulatory official said Monday.

Michael Barr, the Fed's vice chair for supervision, said regulators are considering "targeted adjustments" to existing liquidity rules aimed at boosting bank resilience under stress. The... (continue reading...)

ROME (Reuters) - More than a third of Italian teenagers want to emigrate when they are older, according to a survey by national statistics institute Istat which also found that young people have become more anxious about the future.

The findings add to multiple warnings about Italy's demographic decline. In March, Istat reported that births fell to 379,000 in 2023, a record low, while the total population dropped below 59 million.

Among... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - Ukraine's leading mobile operator Kyivstar has allocated $90 million to deal with a suspect Russian cyberattack on its services and said it had hit its growth.

The hack, described by its CEO as the biggest cyberattack on telecoms infrastructure in the world, struck Kyivstar in December, damaging infrastructure and disrupting mobile phone signals for millions of Ukrainians.

"Before the cyberattack, we were moving with an... (continue reading...)