Beata Manthey, Citigroup's European equity strategy head, comments on recent FX market moves in the EUR/USD trade and "re-emerging" tariff risks. "We continue to see the diversification trade being stronger this year," Manthey tells Bloomberg Television. "What is happening geopolitically around the world really re-emphasizes the domestic trade in Europe." (Source: Bloomberg)
Beata Manthey, Citigroup's European equity strategy head, comments on recent FX market moves in the EUR/USD trade and "re-emerging" tariff risks. "We continue to see the diversification trade being stronger this year," Manthey tells Bloomberg Television. "What is happening geopolitically around the world really re-emphasizes the domestic trade in Europe." (Source: Bloomberg)
LONDON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Britain's competition regulator on Wednesday proposed a package of measures that it said would improve Google search services in the country, including making sure publishers get a fairer deal over how their content is used in the engine's AI overviews. Google said in response it was "exploring" updates to its controls to let sites specifically opt out of search gen...
LONDON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Britain's competition regulator on Wednesday proposed a package of measures that it said would improve Google search services in the country, including making sure publishers get a fairer deal over how their content is used in the engine's AI overviews. Google said in response it was "exploring" updates to its controls to let sites specifically opt out of search generative AI features. "Any new controls need to avoid breaking search in a way that leads to a fragmented or confusing experience for people," it said. "We're optimistic we can find a path forward that provides even more choice to website owners and publishers, while ensuring people continue to get the most helpful and innovative Search experience possible." Google was the first company to be targeted by the regulator's new powers to tackle the dominance of big tech when it designated Google as having "strategic market status" in October, allowing it to step in on some issues. (Reporting by Muvija M and Paul Sandle, editing by Sarah Young)
The US dollar has fallen to its lowest level in four years after Donald Trump brushed off concerns over the currency’s fall, sending investors fleeing to traditional havens including gold and the Swiss franc. The dollar dropped by 1.3% against a basket of currencies after the president’s comments on Tuesday, marking its fourth day of declines, then slipped by a further 0.2% on Wednesday morning. “...
The US dollar has fallen to its lowest level in four years after Donald Trump brushed off concerns over the currency’s fall, sending investors fleeing to traditional havens including gold and the Swiss franc. The dollar dropped by 1.3% against a basket of currencies after the president’s comments on Tuesday, marking its fourth day of declines, then slipped by a further 0.2% on Wednesday morning. “No, I think it’s great,” Trump said of the weaker dollar, during a visit to Iowa to promote his record on the economy. Asked whether he was concerned about the currency’s slide, he told reporters: “I think the value of the dollar – look at the business we’re doing. The dollar’s doing great.” The greenback has tumbled by 10% over the past year, while Tuesday’s fall was the largest one-day drop since last April, when Trump announced his sweeping tariff plans, marking a global market sell-off. The dollar has now touched its lowest level since February 2022, after unpredictable US policymaking, including Trump’s recent threats to take over Greenland and impose further tariffs on European allies, unleashed fresh geopolitical shocks. “A weaker dollar is a two-sided coin,” said Steve Sosnick, a market strategist at Interactive Brokers, adding that it was good for multinational companies. “If you have operations around the world and foreign currency revenue that will have a conversion advantage when you turn it into US dollars, that will be good. On the other, it makes imported goods more expensive and there might be some inflationary impact from that.” The dollar’s slide has also propelled some rival global currencies to multi-year highs. The Swiss franc has soared to its highest level against the dollar in more than a decade, as traders have sought out a store of wealth traditionally viewed as a haven insulated from global volatility. The franc has already climbed 3% against the dollar so far this year, after a 14% rise in 2025. The euro has also surged to $1.20 against the dolla...
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Linklater recreates the making of the landmark French New Wave classic with an awestruck tastefulness that smooths over any disruptiveness Breathless, deathless … and pointless? Here is Richard Linklater’s impeccably submissive, tastefully cinephile period drama about the making of Godard’s debut 1960 classic À Bout de Souffle, that starred Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo as the star-crossed lo...
Linklater recreates the making of the landmark French New Wave classic with an awestruck tastefulness that smooths over any disruptiveness Breathless, deathless … and pointless? Here is Richard Linklater’s impeccably submissive, tastefully cinephile period drama about the making of Godard’s debut 1960 classic À Bout de Souffle, that starred Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo as the star-crossed lovers in Paris. Linklater’s homage has credits in French and is beautifully shot in monochrome, as opposed to the boring old colour of real life in which the events were actually happening; he even cutely fabricates cue marks in the corner of the screen, those things that once told projectionists when to changeover the reels. But Linklater smoothly avoids any disruptive jump-cuts. It’s a good natured, intelligent effort for which Godard himself, were he still alive, would undoubtedly have ripped Linklater a new one. (When Michel Hazanavicius made Redoubtable in 2017 about Godard’s making of his 1967 film La Chinoise, the man himself called that “a stupid, stupid idea”; Hazanavicius wasn’t even making a film about Godard’s first and biggest hit. Continue reading...
Bulgaria’s central bank chief said he won’t become his country’s premier. “If I accept becoming interim prime minister, that would be a violation of both the Bulgarian and the European legislation, and also of the established norms of central banking,” Dimitar Radev , who also is a member of the European Central Bank Governing Council, said after a meeting with Bulgaria’s president. Speaking to re...
Bulgaria’s central bank chief said he won’t become his country’s premier. “If I accept becoming interim prime minister, that would be a violation of both the Bulgarian and the European legislation, and also of the established norms of central banking,” Dimitar Radev , who also is a member of the European Central Bank Governing Council, said after a meeting with Bulgaria’s president. Speaking to reporters in Sofia on Wednesday, Radev stressed that “the sanction for such a violation is immediate resignation.” “Such a development risks the destabilization of the probably most stable institution at the moment, the Bulgarian National Bank,” he said. Read More: Bulgarian President to Resign, Hints He May Run in Snap Vote