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By Emma Rumney and Padraic Halpin LONDON/DUBLIN (Reuters) – Diageo (LON:) needs its leading stout beer Guinness to keep growing fast and is pushing a zero alcohol alternative. But price hikes are turning off some UK customers and opening the door to rivals such as Heineken (AS:)’s Murphy’s. Guinness has…
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Beijing is pushing Pakistan to allow its own security staff to provide protection to thousands of Chinese citizens working in the South Asian nation, during talks after a car bombing in Karachi that was seen as a major security breach, sources said. Last month’s…
By Ankur Banerjee and Sruthi Shankar SINGAPORE/LONDON (Reuters) – World stocks hit a record high on Tuesday after China unveiled stimulus measures to support its economy and stock markets, sending Asian and European shares higher and triggering a bounce in commodity prices. People’s Bank of China (PBOC) Governor Pan Gongsheng…
By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) – Pipelines that historically carry Canadian crude to the U.S. are cutting rates and looking to ship different grades of due to rising competition from the newly expanded Trans Mountain pipeline. The moves will temporarily cut the cost of transporting some of Canada’s heavy crude…
By Fanny PotkinSHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Tesla (NASDAQ:) is pushing ahead with plans to power the global development of its self-driving system with data from China that could be processed within the country, part of a strategic shift by Elon Musk, according to people with knowledge of the work.As part of…
By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) – Dairy farmers in the United States are raising their defenses to try to contain the spread of bird flu: banning visitors, cutting down trees to discourage wild birds from landing, and disinfecting vehicles coming onto their land. North Carolina on Wednesday became the seventh…
