PARIS, Sept 29 (Reuters) – French centre-right presidential candidate Edouard Philippe proposed on Tuesday raising the retirement age to 65 and making private pension savings compulsory, tackling one of France’s most politically explosive issues. Pension reform is highly sensitive in France, where workers rely on a…
Sept 29 (Reuters) – UniQure said its gene therapy for Huntington’s disease fell short of statistical significance on the main goal of slowing disease progression in a four-year analysis, sending its U.S.-listed shares plummeting 55% in premarket trading on Tuesday. In the study with 12…
Sept 29 (Reuters) – Smart ring maker Oura postponed its U.S. IPO on Tuesday, joining a growing list of prospective issuers pulling back as surging bond yields and higher interest rates weigh on markets during a typically busy period for new listings. Here’s a list…
COPENHAGEN, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk said on Tuesday a real-world study found that adults with type 2 diabetes who took an escalated dose of its diabetes drug, Ozempic, had a lower risk of major cardiovascular events compared to those who switched to Eli…
By Dave Sherwood HAVANA, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Cuba’s top trade official dismissed reports that companies linked to US President Donald Trump had come to Cuba this year to talk business, while calling the US trade embargo the biggest impediment to the roll-out of historic…
By Vallari Srivastava, Curtis Williams and David French HOUSTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Alternative asset managers deploying cash from their insurance arms are reshaping how America’s energy infrastructure is financed, emerging as major backers of LNG export projects and the pipelines moving crude and natural…
By Lisandra Paraguassu and Brendan O’Boyle BRASILIA, Sept 29 (Reuters) – When Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York this month, he used one of the world’s biggest diplomatic stages to deliver a message that has…
MADRID, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Spain’s coalition government said it has agreed measures to address the country’s housing crisis, as the lawyer of an 87-year-old woman whose eviction last week triggered protests said she was considering an offer to return home. Hundreds of people remained…
SAO PAULO, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Senator Flavio Bolsonaro remain statistically tied in a simulated runoff ahead of next month’s election, an AtlasIntel/Bloomberg poll showed on Tuesday, with the right-wing challenger now 0.1 percentage point ahead of…
By Crispian Balmer ROME, Sept 29 (Reuters) – Italy signalled on Tuesday it wanted to avoid a diplomatic rupture with Egypt after three Egyptian security officials were found guilty in absentia of the 2016 kidnapping of student Giulio Regeni, who was killed after his abduction.…
