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Investors punish Inditex for its spending plans

Inditex, which owns Zara stores, said sales of its spring-summer 2023 collection soared in the past six weeks, but its shares fell on Wednesday after the Spanish textile chain signaled higher spending on technology and automation. Inditex (BME:ITX) has extended…

Tense calm grips markets after SVB turmoil

Efforts by regulators and financial executives to assuage fears of contagion sparked by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) bolstered sentiment on Wednesday. Nonetheless, in a week in which global bank stocks have plunged – the regional bank index…

Stocks fall and tension grips markets

Global stocks fell on Tuesday as the looming U.S. banking crisis prompted investors to lower their expectations for interest rate hikes, even ahead of key inflation data due later in the day. As recently as a week ago, investors were…

Sixth day of strike at French refineries

Strikes blocking fuel supplies from French refineries continued for a sixth day on Monday after the Senate voted over the weekend in favour of President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular pension reform plan. At the TotalEnergies Haulchin gas depot in northern France,…

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