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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Europe’s largest tour operator Tui is considering delisting from the London Stock Exchange in the latest blow to the UK market. The company, which is listed in London and Frankfurt, said on Wednesday that it had recently been approached by shareholders questioning whether its current structure was “optimal and advantageous”.While Tui has had a dual listing since 2014, the Hanover-based company said that over the past four years a large part of the volume of trading in its shares had migrated from…

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Governor of the Bank of Canada Tiff Macklem walks outside the Bank of Canada building in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada June 22, 2020. REUTERS/Blair Gable/File Photo By Steve Scherer and David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) -The Bank of Canada on Wednesday held its key overnight rate at 5% and left the door open to another hike, saying it was still concerned about inflation while acknowledging an economic slowdown and a general easing of prices. The central bank raised rates by a quarter point in both June and July to a 22-year-high and has left them on hold in…

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Why MongoDB (MDB) Stock Is Nosediving What Happened: Shares of database software company MongoDB (NASDAQ:) fell 8.7% in the morning session after the company reported third quarter results with calculated billings (revenue + change in deferred revenue) falling below Wall Street’s expectations. Customer count also missed, and growth of this key metric slowed. On the other hand, revenue exceeded expectations during the quarter. Looking ahead, next quarter and full year revenue and non-GAAP operating income guidance came in higher than Wall Street’s estimates. However, management guided for a seasonal impact on consumption growth in the Atlas (NYSE:) segment (roughly 2/3…

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: OPEC’s logo is seen in this illustration taken, October 8, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/File Photo By Alex Lawler LONDON (Reuters) – OPEC oil output fell in November in the first monthly drop since July, a Reuters survey found, as a result of lower shipments by Nigeria and Iraq as well as ongoing market-supporting cuts by Saudi Arabia and other members of the wider OPEC+ alliance. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries pumped 27.81 million barrels per day (bpd) last month, down by 90,000 bpd from October, the survey on Wednesday found. Production had risen in the…

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The Biden administration is imposing visa bans on dozens of Israeli settlers who have committed acts of violence in the West Bank, taking action against what U.S. officials call a potential trigger for wider violence as Israel wages war in Gaza.In a statement on Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken announced a new policy “targeting individuals believed to have been involved in undermining peace, security or stability in the West Bank, including through committing acts of violence or taking other actions that unduly restrict civilians’ access to essential services and basic necessities.”U.S. officials are most concerned about a recent…

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Xan Myburgh is the CEO + Co-Founder of Backd Business Funding, a leading alternative financing solution. getty For a small or medium-sized business, determining whether it’s the right time for a capital raise can be complex as owners weigh a number of seemingly competing factors: What is the company’s projected growth? What changes are coming? How does the economy look? Are there any global events that might influence backers’ willingness to fund their company? Timing, of course, is a subjective question. A trend we’ve seen with a lot of our clients is that they have specific opportunities or ventures—medium- or…

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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.This article is an on-site version of The Lex Newsletter. Sign up here to get the complete newsletter sent straight to your inbox every Wednesday and FridayDear reader, When Amazon.com announces a rare, sharp cut to fees for merchants selling clothing priced below $20, you know rivalry in that space has intensified. A price war with platforms such as Chinese fast-fashion upstart Shein may help draw back any straying shoppers to the US ecommerce platform. But it may also bring more attention to…

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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The exterior of the Marriner S. Eccles Federal Reserve Board Building is seen in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 14, 2022. REUTERS/Sarah Silbiger/File Photo By Prerana Bhat and Indradip Ghosh BENGALURU (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve will hold interest rates until at least July, later than earlier thought, according to a slim majority of economists in a Reuters poll who said the first cut would be to adjust the real rate of interest, not the start of stimulus. All but five of 102 economists in the Dec. 1-6 Reuters poll said the Fed was done hiking…

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© Reuters. Delta Air Lines (DAL) rises on comments demand for holiday travel is ‘very, very strong’ Delta Air Lines Inc. (NYSE:) President Glen Hauenstein said today the company anticipates a robust end to the year for the airline industry, building on a record-setting Thanksgiving. Shares rose 2.6% on the news. He noted increased demand for corporate travel since Thanksgiving and highlighted strong and growing advance bookings for transatlantic trips, even during the slower European travel season. Moreover, Hauenstein mentioned that the industry’s domestic capacity growth is expected to fall to zero year-over-year in January, which he considers one of…

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