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Insurers struggle to get grip on burgeoning cyber risk market

August 25, 2021 at 1:30 a.m.

PARIS/BOSTON (Reuters) - Insurers are eagerly eyeing exponential growth in the tiny cyber coverage market but their lack of experience and skills handling hackers and data breaches may keep their...

Argentina clinches landmark debt repayment deal with Paris Club

August 25, 2021 at 12:24 a.m.

By Leigh Thomas and Sarah Marsh PARIS/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina reached an agreement on Thursday with the Paris Club of creditor nations on repaying overdue debts in a landmark...

OECD cuts global growth outlook as developing economies falter

August 24, 2021 at 11:42 p.m.

PARIS (Reuters) - Advanced economies will increasingly have to drive the recovery as formerly fast-growing developing economies falter, the OECD said on Tuesday, as it downgraded its outlook for growth....

France to slow deficit cuts but respect 2015 target: minister

August 24, 2021 at 11:01 p.m.

PARIS (Reuters) - France has won backing from European partners to slightly slow the reduction of its public deficit but will still respect its EU-imposed deficit target in 2015, French...

Cheap funding costs a boon for French firms

August 24, 2021 at 10:55 p.m.

PARIS (Reuters) - As economic prospects in western Europe improve, French companies whose shares are still reeling from the euro zone debt crisis are enjoying rock-bottom financing costs, a boost...

France’s Valls wins parliament backing for tax and spend shake-up

August 24, 2021 at 10:40 p.m.

PARIS (Reuters) - New Prime Minister Manuel Valls won a vote of confidence in parliament on Tuesday after unveiling planned tax and public spending cuts, vowing to bring France's public...

Paris Club invites Argentina to hold debt negotiation

August 24, 2021 at 9:59 p.m.

PARIS (Reuters) - The Paris Club invited the Argentine government on Friday to negotiate paying off its overdue debt, with talks starting in the week of May 26 to take...

Patience wearing thin with French reform results

November 3, 2021 at 8:20 p.m.

PARIS (Reuters) - France is facing pressure to deliver on long-promised, deep budget savings in the next couple of weeks to keep the increasingly strained faith of its EU partners,...

Patience wearing thin with French reform results

December 23, 2018 at 4:33 p.m.

PARIS (Reuters) - France is facing pressure to deliver on long-promised, deep budget savings in the next couple of weeks to keep the increasingly strained faith of its EU partners,...

Analysis: Strained finances trip up French firms’ recovery role

August 24, 2021 at 4:53 p.m.

PARIS (Reuters) - Squeezed by thin margins and high debt, French companies will struggle to ramp up the investment spending on which President Francois Hollande's government is banking to underpin...

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