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By Niket Nishant and Manya Saini

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Major U.S. banks reported lower profit on Friday in a choppy fourth quarter clouded by special charges and job cuts, with signs an income boost from high interest rates is waning and some consumer loans are starting to sour.

Several types of cereals and granola bars by the popular brand Quaker are being recalled across Canada due to potential salmonella contamination.

As inflation continues to throttle back across the broad U.S. economy, some consumer categories have sunk into outright deflation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. closed out the most profitable year in US banking history with its seventh consecutive quarter of record net interest income and a surprise forecast that the windfall may continue this year. 

Nearly one in five Canadians aged 18 and up say they “probably will or may” buy a home in 2024, according to a new Wahi Realty Inc. survey of Angus Reid Forum members that looks at homebuyer intentions for the new year as well as what they are doing to make their ownership dreams come true.

Peter Miller doesn’t mince words when describing the dealmaking doldrums that Bay Street has slipped into over the past couple of years. But the head of global equity capital markets at BMO Capital Markets and other investment bankers are cautiously optimistic that the action is about to pick up, and anxious to talk about the reasons why.

LONDON (Reuters) — Anheuser-Busch InBev will be an official sponsor for three Olympic Games starting with the Paris 2024 summer event this year, the brewer said on Friday, naming its alcohol-free Corona Cero as the official beer of the Games.

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By Alexandra Valencia

Wells Fargo Advisors SVP Mark Smith and Osaic chief market strategist Phil Blancato analyze December inflation data and discuss how investors should play the bond market on 'Making Money.'

(Reuters) -Bank of New York Mellon Corporation on Friday reported a 50% fall in fourth-quarter profit due to some one-time charges, including those tied to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's (FDIC) deposit insurance fund.

Avalon Technologies on Friday said it is now a strategic manufacturing partner for C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing), an R&D organization of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) to enhance the indigenous manufacturing capability of High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems as part of the ‘Rudra’ programme, which aims at designing and manufacturing of supercomputers in India. “We are proud to announce that we will be a key partner in assisting with the manufacturing of Rudra HPC servers — India's first ever natively designed server by C-DAC," Kunhamed Bicha, chairman of Avalon said in a statement. «We have been involved in the process of development of RUDRA server by providing advanced manufacturing solutions and are delighted to now take on a strategic role in bringing about the Make in India story.»

By Tatiana Bautzer and Manya Saini

(Reuters) -U.S. stock index futures declined on Friday as weak earnings reports from big banks sparked worries about the health of corporate America, while investors awaited an inflation report during the day for clues on monetary policy outlook.

Bank of America (BAC) reported fourth-quarter revenue figures that trailed analyst estimates, causing shares to fall more than 4% in the premarket.

outdoor humidity and temperature levels during pregnancy are associated with blood pressure changes in the children, new study has found. An international team of researchers found that exposure to higher relative humidity while being pregnant was linked to a steeper increase in blood pressure in childhood, whereas being exposed to higher temperatures during pregnancy was linked to a slower increase in blood pressure in childhood (age 3-10 years).

Coast Guards of India and Japan held a joint exercise of responding in real-time, rescuing the crew of a distressed vessel off the coast of Chennai on Friday. The joint exercise code-named 'Sahyog Kaijin' on the Bay of Bengal saw the ICGS Shaurya and JCGS Yashima, equipped with advanced equipment, rush swiftly to rescue the crew of MT Matsyadristi and MV Anveshika involved in a simulated collision that resulted in a fire onboard the MT Matsyadristi as well as a crude oil slick. Immediately after receiving the distress call, fast patrol vessels ICGS Annie Besant and ICGS Rani Abbakka surged forward to commence the rescue operation.

retail inflation surged 5.69 per cent in December on an annual basis as against 5.55 per cent in November, data released by the Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation showed on Friday. The number has remained within the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) tolerance band of 2-6 per cent. In the December policy meeting, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) left the inflation aim unchanged at 5.4 per cent. In the August policy, the RBI MPC had raised its FY24 inflation forecast to 5.4 per cent from 5.1 per cent. «There has been broad based easing in core inflation, which is indicative of successful disinflation through monetary policy actions.

Read more of our recent coverage of the Ukraine war The war has upended the lives of countless Ukrainians, as well as the country’s labour market. Some 4.8m people lost their jobs almost overnight when Russia attacked. Unemployment is estimated to have eased to 18.4% in October this year, from more than 30% in the spring of 2022, but remains well above pre-war levels.

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