Bloomberg The French economy will grow this year despite soaring inflation and uncertainty over the war in Ukraine, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said. The minister declined to give an estimate, saying he would update country’s growth forecast once a revised budget bill is presented following the legislative elections later this month. “It was 4%, it’s obvious that with ...

  Bloomberg A glut of fertilisers at the biggest Brazilian ports signals that the price of the nutrients may have to drop further before farmers start buying. In Paranagua, private warehouses reached their maximum storage capacity of 3.5 million tons, according to Luiz Teixeira da Silva, Paranagua’s operations director. A terminal operated by VLI Logistics, one of the two at ...

  Bloomberg US equity futures pared gains on Tuesday and a rebound in European stocks proved short-lived, suggesting markets aren’t out of the woods after a rout driven by expectations of sharper Federal Reserve interest-rate hikes to fight inflation. S&P 500 contracts came off session highs to trade around 0.5%, signalling some relief after the plunge that erased $1.3 trillion ...