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☆ Christmas vacations: 15 of the best places to go
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-03 | by ( Cnn Staff | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

The Bath Christmas Market has a multitude of wooden chalets selling distinctively British handmade crafts in a quaint Georgian setting. Bogotá, ColombiaA woman dressed as Santa Claus sits next to a Christmas tree and a Christmas star at Bolivar Square in Bogota. Salzburg and Oberndorf, AustriaThe Christmas Market and associated festivities in Salzburg are really something to sing about. Dating back to 1570, Strasbourg claims to be the oldest Christmas market in France and one of the oldest in Europe. damianalmua/Adobe StockThe traditional Christmas colors of red, green and white take on an entirely new meaning in New Zealand.

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☆ HSBC to sell Canada business to RBC for $10 billion
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

HSBC bank logo on the wall is seen in Valletta , Malta on 21 September 2022. British bank HSBC said on Tuesday it had agreed to sell its business in Canada to Royal Bank of Canada for $13.5 billion Canadian dollars ($10.04 billion) in cash. The transaction is expected to complete in late 2023 and will result in a pre-tax gain of $5.7 billion for HSBC, the bank said in a statement. The sale comes as HSBC pursues a strategy of focusing its resources on its core markets, amid pressure from its biggest shareholder Ping An to improve its performance. The deal enables RBC to grab further market share in its home market, adding 130 branches and more than 780,000 retail and commercial customers.

☆ HSBC third-quarter pretax profit slides 42% on France sale charge, credit losses
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

HSBC bank logo on the wall is seen in Valletta , Malta on 21 September 2022. HSBC reported on Tuesday a 42% tumble in third-quarter pretax profits on the back of losses on the sale of its French unit and rising bad loans, but its interest income surged as banks benefit from rising rates around the world. The London-headquartered bank posted a pretax profit of $3.15 billion for the three months ended Sept. 30. That was down from $5.4 billion a year ago, but well above the $2.45 billion average of analyst estimates compiled by the bank. "We remain on track to achieve our cost targets for 2022 and 2023," said Noel Quinn, HSBC's Chief Executive Officer.

☆ Malta to maintain energy prices at pre-COVID levels
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

VALLETTA, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Malta's government said on Monday it would spend 10% of its recurrent expenditure next year to maintain a freeze on energy and fuel prices. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register"Without this measure, economic growth would have been halved. You would have been asking me how many businesses are expected to close and how high unemployment is expected to reach," Caruana told reporters. "Our economic growth projections are still double the European average," he said. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Christopher Scicluna; Editing by Crispian BalmerOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Malta demonstrators mark five years since Daphne Caruana Galizia's murder
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-16 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

People take part in a protest march on the fifth anniversary of the assassination of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, in Valletta, Malta October 16, 2022. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit LupiVALLETTA, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Demonstrators in Malta marked five years since the car bomb murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia on Sunday, two days after two brothers admitted to her killing and were each sentenced to 40 years in prison. Many of those present carried pictures of Caruana Galizia and Maltese flags. She said Caruana Galizia was: "A Woman of Steel, because she was a woman of principle, a woman who could tell right from wrong". No government representatives were present at the demonstration but Prime Minister Robert Abela said earlier that Caruana Galizia's death was a dark episode "that we must learn from".

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