TOKYO (Reuters) - Toyota Motor ( TM ) said on Tuesday it had reached an agreement with Panasonic Holdings ( PCRFF ) to make one of their joint ventures the automaker's wholly owned subsidiary. The firm, Primearth EV Energy Co, plans to begin production of batteries for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid vehicles on top of batteries for gasoline hybrid...

(Reuters) - Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli said on Tuesday its 2023 profit rose, as it increased prices in a challenging year that saw the price of cocoa soar. Net income rose 17.9% to 671.4 million Swiss francs ($758 million), slightly beating the 670 million francs forecast by analysts at Zuercher Kantonalbank. ($1 = 0.8853 Swiss francs) ...

(Reuters) -The number of dollar-pegged stablecoins issued by Tether has crossed $100 billion, the crypto company said on its website on Monday. Tether issues a stablecoin which is designed to maintain a constant value of $1. It is widely used as a way of moving money in cryptocurrency without being exposed to price swings in other cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin...

By Shankar Ramakrishnan and Bhakti Tambe March 5 (Reuters) - India's Adani group saw massive demand on Monday for its first dollar bond since a short-seller attack last year, in what two banking sources said was being seen internally as a test for the conglomerate's access to global capital markets. Adani Green Energy priced a $409 million 18-year bond after...