(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...)
LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone business activity has expanded at its fastest pace in a year this month, supported by buoyant demand for services, while the manufacturing sector showed signs of approaching a recovery, a preliminary survey showed on Thursday.
HCOB's preliminary composite Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), compiled by S&P Global, climbed to 52.3 this month from April's 51.7, beating expectations in a Reuters poll for a more modest lift to... (continue reading...)
By Fatos Bytyci
PRISTINA (Reuters) - In a Pristina apartment, gay actors laugh and cry their way through rehearsals for a play lampooning homophobic politicians and advocating equal rights for the LGBT community in Kosovo, which may soon become the first Muslim-majority country to allow same-sex unions.
The play is scheduled to run during Pride Week in June, but may also coincide with a vote in parliament on a new civil code legalising... (continue reading...)
DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates' (UAE) economy grew 4.3% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2023, preliminary government data showed, with non-oil economic growth vastly outperforming overall GDP.
Non-oil GDP surged 6.7% in the same period, according to data from the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre.
Financial and insurance activities, transportation and storage, real estate and construction sectors were among... (continue reading...)
(Reuters) - Supermarket group Ahold Delhaize expects to grow underlying earnings per share and increase savings over the 2025-2028 period, it said on Thursday, as it plans to boost digitalisation and the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
The group, which operates the Stop & Shop, Giant, Food Lion and Hannaford chains in the United States and the Albert Heijn and Delhaize chains in the Netherlands and Belgium, is targeting underlying earnings per... (continue reading...)
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