Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Asian markets poised for choppy day after Wall Street’s fall
By Jessica DiNapoli NEW YORK (Reuters) - Asian stock markets faced a choppy session on Tuesday after Wall Street dipped as investors took profits at the end of a record-breaking month while still rema...
Nov 30, 2020
S&P deal for IHS likely to draw antitrust scrutiny from Biden administration
By Diane Bartz and David French WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Data giant S&P Global Inc's plan to buy IHS Markit Ltd for $44 billion will face hard questions from the incoming administration of Pres...
Nov 30, 2020
Unilever to try out four-day working week in New Zealand
WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Global consumer goods giant Unilever said on Tuesday it was poised to try out a four-day working week for all its New Zeland employees. Unilever said all 81 staff members at its...
Nov 30, 2020
‘Pandemic’ chosen as Word of the Year
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The 2020 prize for Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year went to an obvious choice: pandemic. The term had the most online dictionary lookups of any word, Merriam-Webster said on its...
Nov 30, 2020
Canada plans digital tax in 2022 on global tech giants such as Facebook, Google
By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada plans to impose a tax on corporations providing digital services from 2022 that will stay in place until major nations come up with a coordinated approach ...
Nov 30, 2020
Tesla to join S&P 500 in single tranche
(Reuters) - Tesla Inc will join the S&P 500 index in a single part, S&P Dow Jones Indices announced on Monday following a consultation with investors about the best way to add one of Wall Street's mos...
Nov 30, 2020
Wisconsin confirms result handing state’s presidential contest to Biden
(Reuters) - The Wisconsin Elections Commission's chair on Monday confirmed the election result in the state following a recount in two counties, bringing Democratic President-elect Joe Biden closer to...
Nov 30, 2020
New California stay-home order weighed as COVID hospitalizations surge
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom said on Monday he may impose tougher coronavirus restrictions over the next two days, including a possible stay-at-home order, to counte...
Nov 30, 2020
U.S. reports over 10,000 coronavirus deaths last week
(Reuters) - The United States recorded 10,000 coronavirus deaths and over 1.1 million new cases last week, although state and health officials have said the Thanksgiving holiday likely caused numbers ...
Nov 30, 2020
U.S. CDC reports 266,051 deaths from coronavirus
(Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Monday reported 13,295,605 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 152,608 from its previous count, and said that the numb...
Nov 30, 2020
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