Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Amid national debate on race, Fed’s Bostic sees central bank role on inequality
By Howard Schneider (Reuters) - A rising stock market alongside 11% unemployment has put the U.S. Federal Reserve in a quandary amid the national debate over racial and economic fairness: Is it helpin...
Jul 16, 2020
U.S. Supreme Court allows second federal execution in 17 years to proceed
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the second federal execution in 17 years to take place, overturning lower court injunctions. The court's decision allows the U.S. Jus...
Jul 16, 2020
India’s Reliance seen emerging as bigger threat for U.S. firms like Amazon, Walmart
By Aditya Kalra and Nivedita Bhattacharjee NEW DELHI/BENGALURU (Reuters) - A $20 billion fund raising spree may take India's Reliance closer to its dream of becoming a digital giant, further threateni...
Jul 16, 2020
Socially distant geisha struggle to survive in coronavirus shadow
By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - - Ikuko, the "big sister" of Tokyo's Akasaka geisha district, came to the capital to seek her fortune in 1964, the year Tokyo first hosted the Olympics. But the novel ...
Jul 16, 2020
EU top court rejects EU-U.S. data transfer tool, backs another tool
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Europe's top court on Thursday rejected a key EU tool used to transfer Europeans' personal data across the Atlantic for commercial use but upheld the validity of another tool us...
Jul 16, 2020
Malaysian court grants temporary freeze on $340 million 1MDB money in UK
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - A Malaysian court on Thursday granted an interim order to stop Saudi energy firm PetroSaudi International (PSI) from using more than $340 million in funds in Britain, which Ma...
Jul 16, 2020
Germany’s long, lonely campaign: Battling Wirecard’s short sellers
By John O'Donnell FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German authorities pressed on for four years investigating investors who bet against Wirecard AG's shares, even after a UK regulator concluded that their eviden...
Jul 16, 2020
U.S. Customs places detention order on imports of goods made by Malaysia’s Top Glove
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has enforced a detention order on subsidiaries of the world's largest medical glove maker Top Glove Corp Bhd , an action intended ...
Jul 16, 2020
Oil giants including Exxon set first joint carbon target
By Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) - A group of the world's top oil companies including Saudi Aramco, China's CNPC and Exxon Mobil have for the first time set targets to cut their combined greenhouse gas ...
Jul 15, 2020
Twitter hacking spree alarms experts concerned about the platform’s security
By Joseph Menn and Raphael Satter SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The extraordinary hacking spree that hit Twitter on Wednesday, leading it to briefly muzzle some of its most widely followed acco...
Jul 15, 2020
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