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FILE PHOTO: People shop at a Walmart Supercentre amid coronavirus fears spreading in Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 13, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
(Reuters) - Walmart Canada said on Monday it plans to invest more than C$500 million ($400.06 million) this year to refurbish its stores.
It would be the largest yearly investment in store upgrades, with more than 60% of outlets benefiting from the plan, the Canadian arm of the world’s largest retailer said.
In July, Walmart Canada announced plans to spend C$3.5 billion over the next five years to strengthen its e-commerce business and renovate stores.
Walmart Canada said on Monday the plan was expected to create more than 2,000 construction jobs in the country.
France will stop administering AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine pending an assessment by the European Union's medicine regulator due on Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday.
S&P500 futures edge higher, hover near record high Long-term U.S. bond yields near 13-month peak Investors bets on earlier economic normalisation Some investors see Fed revising up economic, rates forecasts
TOKYO, March 15 (Reuters) - Global stock prices inched higher while U.S. bond yields hovered near a 13-month peak on Monday as investors bet U.S. economic growth will accelerate after the $1.9 trillion stimulus bill President Joe Biden signed into law last week.
A rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations in the United States and some other countries stoked a bullish mood on risk assets even as investors become wary of key central bank policy meets later in the week, including the U.S. Federal Reserve’s.
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WARSAW, March 15 (Reuters) - Poland’s central bank wants to buy at least 100 tonnes of gold worth some $5.5 billion at current prices over the coming years, as it continues to expand its bullion reserves, governor Adam Glapinski said in an interview published on Monday.
“At the moment, we have 229 tonnes of gold, of which more or less half was bought during my term in office,” Glapinski told conservative magazine Sieci.
“Over the course of a few years we want to buy at least another 100 tonnes of gold and keep it in Poland as well,” he said.
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BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil’s record public debt pile rose further above 5 trillion reais in January, while rock-bottom interest rates continued to anchor the cost of servicing it near all-time lows, data showed on Wednesday.
FILE PHOTO: 200 reais note are seen after Brazil s Central Bank issues the new note in Brasilia, Brazil September 2, 2020. REUTERS/Adriano Machado
Total federal debt rose 1% in January to 5.06 trillion reais ($932 billion), while the total domestic debt stock rose 1.2% to 4.82 trillion reais, Treasury said.
It said its liquidity cushion, essentially an emergency cash buffer, fell 8.6% in nominal terms from the previous month to 805.7 billion reais.