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Standard Life Aberdeen said on Tuesday it was cutting its dividend after adjusted full-year profits fell 16.6% to 487 million pounds ($674 million) and as the British asset manager reconfigures its global operations with a renewed focus on Asia.

By Reuters Staff (Adds details, background) BEIJING, March 7 (Reuters) - China’s foreign exchange reserves fell less than expected in February, official data showed on Sunday, due to valuation effects. The country’s foreign exchange reserves, the world’s largest, fell $5.677 billion to $3.205 trillion last month, compared with $3.200 trillion tipped in a Reuters poll of analysts and $3.211 trillion in January. Foreign inflows into Chinese stocks and bonds have been strong as China gallops...

By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read BEIJING, March 7 (Reuters) - China’s foreign exchange reserves fell less than expected in February, official data showed on Sunday. The country’s foreign exchange reserves, the world’s largest fell to $3.205 trillion last month, compared with $3.200 trillion tipped in a Reuters poll of analysts and $3.211 trillion in January. (Reporting by Hallie Gu, Yingzhi Yang, and Ryan Woo; Editing by William Mallard)

* Publisher sees online growth, jump in registered users * Print circulation shows resilience (Adds CEO) LONDON, March 1 (Reuters) - News publishers benefit from tie-ups with Facebook and others but there needs to be more transparency about how such platforms operate, the CEO of Reach , the publisher of Britain’s Daily Mirror, said on Monday. Facebook’s recent media blackout in Australia illustrated the power wielded by tech companies and sent shockwaves through the news industry. “We wou...

* Departing CEO Hester not planning on a SPAC (Adds CEO comment, detail, shares, analyst)

* Shares up 4% (Recasts with CEO comments, adds analyst comment)

* Shares jump 4% * Buying interest in SAfrican coal assets (Adds shares, analyst quotes, Quellaveco timeline) LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Anglo American beat forecasts with a small fall in 2020 earnings and boosted its dividend after strong commodity prices helped the diversified miner recover from coronavirus disruptions in the first half of the year. The company’s shares were 4.5% higher in London at 1025 GMT, the second biggest gain on the benchmark FTSE 100. Anglo was the worst hit among i...

By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read LONDON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Vantage Towers, the mobile infrastructure company spun out of Vodafone Group, on Wednesday announced its intention to float on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange by the end of March. Vodafone said it would sell a “meaningful minority” to create a liquid market in Vantage Towers’ shares. Reporting by Paul Sandle; editing by Sarah Young

German independent telecom 1&1 Drillisch said on Monday it had agreed to expand its fibre-optic cooperation with Deutsche Telekom and accepted an improved national roaming deal with Telefonica Deutschland.

By Reuters Staff (Adds Telefonica Deutschland comment) BERLIN, Feb 15 (Reuters) - German independent telecoms firm 1&1 Drillisch said on Monday it had agreed to expand its fibre-optic partnership with Deutsche Telekom and accepted an improved national roaming offer from Telefonica Deutschland. The deals advance Drillisch’s plans to roll out a fourth 5G network in Germany, the subsidiary of United Internet said, and sent its shares and those of its parent sharply higher in early trading. Drill...