(Recasts paragraph 1, adds context and shareholder payout in paragraphs 2-5) By Fabio Teixeira and Marta Nogueira RIO DE JANEIRO, May 13 (Reuters) – Brazilian state-run oil firm Petrobras posted a 38% fall in its first-quarter net recurring profit from a year earlier on Monday, missing analysts’ expectations on the result and its dividend, hit […]
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -ASML, the largest supplier of equipment to computer chip makers, on Wednesday reported first-quarter earnings of 1.22 billion euros ($1.30 billion), and a worse-than-expected inflow of new bookings of 3.6 billion euros. Net income was down from 2.05 billion euros in the fourth quarter of 2023. Sales were 5.29 billion euros, down from […]
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil ended 2023 with a net creation of 1.484 million jobs, said the Labor Ministry on Tuesday, a result that followed disappointing figures from December. Latin America’s largest economy closed 430,159 formal jobs in December, a seasonally negative month due to the termination of workers hired before the holiday period. The figure […]