Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Trump signs deal with company in effort shift drug manufacturing to U.S.: New York Times
(Reuters) - The United States will announce on Tuesday that it has signed a $354 million contract with a company to make generic medicines and pharmaceutical ingredients in the country needed to treat...
May 19, 2020
UK announces new post-Brexit global tariff regime
By Kylie MacLellan and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom on Tuesday announced a new post-Brexit tariff regime to replace the European Union's external tariff, maintaining a 10% tar...
May 19, 2020
Oregon supreme court reinstates coronavirus curbs
(Reuters) - The Oregon Supreme court stayed on Monday a ruling by a Baker County judge that had invalidated statewide curbs imposed by Governor Kate Brown to rein in the coronavirus. The move comes af...
May 19, 2020
Amid rising talk of negative rates, policies in Japan, Europe get subtle tweaks
By Leika Kihara, Francesco Canepa and Howard Schneider TOKYO/FRANKFURT/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After years of applying plenty of stick to commercial lenders unhappy with negative interest rate policies...
May 19, 2020
Powell, Mnuchin to face Senate grilling on U.S. coronavirus response
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government's handling of its massive economic response to the coronavirus pandemic will come under scrutiny on Tuesday as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuc...
May 19, 2020
Long-lasting global recession likely due to COVID-19, says World Economic Forum report
LONDON (Reuters) - Risk managers expect a prolonged global recession as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, a report by the World Economic Forum showed on Tuesday. Two-thirds of the 347 respondents ...
May 19, 2020
White House panel: Build new tech infrastructure for future jobs
By David Shepardson and Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House advisory panel on Tuesday will call for the government and private industry to work together to build new technological inf...
May 18, 2020
Financial gain trumps espionage as top motivator in cyber attacks: report
By Arriana McLymore NEW YORK (Reuters) - Money trumped spying as the top motivator for data breaches last year, according to Verizon's annual report on cyber crimes published on Tuesday. About nine ou...
May 18, 2020
Electric car sales to fall, but not as much as other vehicles: research
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Worldwide electric car registrations are set to fall 18% this year, but those of combustion engine cars are set to drop even faster, analysts BloombergNEF (BNEF) said on Tuesday,...
May 18, 2020
Trump threatens permanent freeze of WHO funding, review of U.S. membership
(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to permanently halt funding for the World Health Organization (WHO) if it did not commit to improvements within 30 days, and to reconsider ...
May 18, 2020
