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By Dan Catchpole and David Shepardson LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - The head of Boeing's commercial airplane unit said on Sunday the planemaker is studying a new round of production increases for its best-selling 737 MAX after it got regulator approval in May to raise production to 47 a month. The Federal Aviation Administration imposed an unprecedented production cap on the U.S. company shortly after a 2024 mid-air emergency that revealed widespread production safety and quality lapses at Boeing.

July 19 (Reuters) - British polling firm YouGov is considering Wayne Levings, the former head of market research firm Kantar's operations, as one of the candidates to succeed co-founder and interim chief executive officer Stephan Shakespeare, Sky News reported on Sunday. Levings spent nearly two decades at Kantar, including as chief executive of its UK and Ireland business, according to his LinkedIn profile.

BERLIN, July 19 (Reuters) - Men are more likely than women to use outside job opportunities as leverage to negotiate higher pay in their existing jobs, helping drive persistent gender wage gaps, according to a study by the Rockwool Foundation Berlin seen by Reuters and published on Sunday. • The study estimates that renegotiation accounts for around half of the gender pay gap.

BEIJING, July 19 (Reuters) - China's Jingye Steel has urged Britain to immediately stop "trampling on international investment rules" and to promptly, fully and effectively compensate the company for all investment losses incurred in the decision to nationalise British Steel. The British side "disregarded dedicated ongoing investment and significant contributions", offering "almost zero compensation", Jingye said in a statement on Sunday.

By Tim Hepher FARNBOROUGH, England, July 18 (Reuters) - Jet engine maker CFM said on Saturday it was investing $2 billion over five years to help meet targets of faster maintenance times, part of efforts to ease engine-industry bottlenecks that have drawn fire from airlines. The world's largest engine maker by number of units sold said the effort by co-owners GE Aerospace and France's Safran would also accelerate repairs, help suppliers improve deliveries and beef up spares inventory.

July 18 (Reuters) - Telecom Italia on Saturday said its board had unanimously approved Poste Italiane's voluntary public tender and exchange offer for all of the company's shares. Poste, which last year became TIM's single largest investor, in March launched an 11 billion euro ($12.58 billion) bid for the shares it does not already own, aiming to take the company private and create a national digital champion.

July 18 (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that it would closely monitor the United Kingdom's nationalisation of Chinese steelmaker-owned British Steel and will take appropriate measures to safeguard legitimate rights and interests if warranted. Britain nationalised British Steel on Thursday, fully taking over the loss-making company that was previously owned by Chinese private steelmaker Jingye on national security grounds.

By Dan Catchpole FARNBOROUGH, England, July 18 (Reuters) - Boeing maintained its forecast for strong global demand for new commercial aircraft over the next 20 years, according to the U.S. planemaker's market projection released in England on Saturday, ahead of the Farnborough Airshow. The U.S. planemaker's forecast was almost identical to its 2025 outlook.

By Johann M Cherian, Saqib Iqbal Ahmed and Lewis Krauskopf July 17 (Reuters) - A brutal week for chip stocks — the same names that fueled this year's blistering market rally — has left investors from Seoul to Silicon Valley asking whether the AI boom became over-leveraged and got ahead of itself. Investors from Asia to Europe pulled back from AI-exposed stocks and so-called momentum names that had powered portfolio returns through much of this year.

July 17 (Reuters) - Railpen, the largest shareholder in Britain's IP Group, said on Friday it has made a sweetened takeover offer for the early-stage science investor, nearly a month after IP Group rejected an earlier approach. • Under the latest proposal, IP Group shareholders would receive 61 pence per share in cash, up from 59 pence per share earlier, and a share of the company's entire Oxford Nanopore Technologies stake, valued at 10.6 pence per IP Group share.