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The country's flagship carrier is grappling with a hit to demand from pricing competition from its U.S. counterparts and high inflation, while global engine maintenance requirements from Pratt & Whitney has affected aircraft availability. "Air New Zealand is expecting a challenging year ahead," CEO Greg Foran said. Pratt & Whitney last year removed more than 1,000 engines from Airbus planes, which has led to the grounding of Air New Zealand's planes intermittently.

The U.S. dollar gained on Wednesday due to month-end buying and technical factors after recent declines that pushed it to its weakest in more than a year, as traders awaited data that could dictate the pace of the Federal Reserve's imminent easing cycle. Sharp bouts of volatility hit foreign exchange markets this month as worries around a potential U.S. recession and hawkish signals from the Bank of Japan hammered the dollar and sent other major currencies soaring. Traders also awaited earnings from artificial intelligence (AI) chip giant Nvidia, which has sparked a frenzy on Wall Street and beyond in recent years.

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The Russian economy has shown solid growth in many sectors while unemployment remains at a record low, new data showed on Wednesday, prompting officials to hint at a brighter outlook for the year despite Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine. Driven by military production, industrial output rose by 3.3% in July compared with a 2.7% increase the previous month, and by 4.8% since the start of the year, compared with 3.1% growth in the same period in 2023. "Given such high results in the first half of the year, we expect even higher figures for the entire year of 2024 than we had initially projected in the economic forecast published in April," said Polina Kryuchkova, deputy economy minister.