Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
U.S. stocks in 2020: A year for the history books, in charts
By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) - The year 2020 was a wild one for Wall Street, bookended by the end of the longest bull market in history with the battering of equities by the COVID-19 shutdo...
Dec 31, 2020
Local funding crisis threatens U.S. vaccine rollout
By Carl O'Donnell and Rebecca Spalding NEW YORK (Reuters) - Seattle public health officials have so little COVID-19 funding on hand they worry they will have to shut down some virus testing sites as t...
Dec 31, 2020
U.S. vaccinations in 2020 falling far short of target of 20 million people
By Rebecca Spalding and Carl O'Donnell (Reuters) - Only about 2.6 million Americans had received a COVID-19 vaccine going into the last day of December, putting the United States far short of the gove...
Dec 31, 2020
Emergency cash calls, tech IPO frenzy push 2020 banker fees to record high
By Abhinav Ramnarayan, Clara Denina and Elizabeth Howcroft (Reuters) - Emergency corporate fundraising and a clamour for tech stock market listings pushed equity capital market volumes to over $1 tril...
Dec 31, 2020
EU wants swift resolution of aircraft dispute with Biden
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Thursday that new U.S. tariffs on EU products disrupted ongoing negotiations with Washington to resolve a 16-year battle over aircraft subsidies an...
Dec 31, 2020
Saudi-led coalition strikes at Yemen capital after attacks on Aden blamed on Houthis
ADEN (Reuters) - Saudi-led coalition warplanes struck targets in Yemen's Houthi-held capital Sanaa on Thursday in retaliation for attacks in the southern port city of Aden the previous day that took p...
Dec 31, 2020
Oil outlook for 2021 hit by new COVID-19 strain: Reuters poll
By K. Sathya Narayanan (Reuters) - Oil prices are unlikely to mount much of a recovery in 2021 as a new coronavirus variant and related travel restrictions threaten already weakened fuel demand, a Reu...
Dec 31, 2020
Airbus says U.S. tariffs counterproductive, Europe should respond
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The U.S. decision to expand tariffs against the European Union to components for aircraft made in the United States would harm its own workers and consumers and Europe should resp...
Dec 31, 2020
Hong Kong’s top court puts media tycoon Jimmy Lai back in custody
By Katherine Cheng HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong's top court has remanded media and publishing tycoon Jimmy Lai, the most high-profile person to be charged under the Chinese-ruled city's national se...
Dec 31, 2020
Man shot dead in gunfire exchange with Minneapolis Police
(Reuters) - Minneapolis Police shot and killed a man in an exchange of gunfire during a traffic stop in the southern part of the city late on Wednesday, in the first killing by a member of the departm...
Dec 31, 2020
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