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Climate activists turn up heat on Standard Bank during AGM
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Standard Bank came under fire from activists over climate issues at its annual general meeting on Friday, though shareholders did not heed their calls to vote out directors ov...
Jun 26, 2020
Novartis faces key meeting in U.S. bribery scandal after settling corruption case
By John Miller ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Novartis , fresh from settling U.S. charges over alleged kickbacks to doctors, is preparing for a key meeting next week with U.S. prosecutors that cou...
Jun 26, 2020
Futures muted after Nike’s surprise loss, Fed’s pandemic analysis
By Medha Singh and Devik Jain (Reuters) - Futures tracking the S&P 500 were largely flat on Friday as investors digested a surprise quarterly loss for Nike and the Federal Reserve's move to limit shar...
Jun 26, 2020
Hapag-Lloyd to halt waste shipments to China
FRANKFURT/BEIJING (Reuters) - German container shipping line Hapag-Lloyd said it had notified customers it will stop accepting cargoes of solid waste, including scrap metal, bound for China that arriv...
Jun 26, 2020
Germany opens part of bailout fund to Lufthansa now – Der Spiegel
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government is making part of its 9 billion euro ($10.10 billion) bailout fund available to Lufthansa immediately after shareholders backed the rescue plan on Thursday, De...
Jun 26, 2020
South Korea panel recommends prosecutors should not indict Samsung group heir
SEOUL (Reuters) - An outside panel in South Korea recommended that prosecutors should not indict Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee over a 2015 merger and alleged accounting fraud, the Supreme Prosecutors'...
Jun 26, 2020
BMW works council backs electric-only platform-report
BERLIN (Reuters) - BMW should shift course and establish a technology platform just for electric cars, moving away from developing cars that can be fitted with either electric or combustion engines, t...
Jun 26, 2020
Pandemic aid watchdog steps into partisan war over bailouts
By Lawrence Delevingne, Chris Prentice and Koh Gui Qing (Reuters) - Brian Miller would have one of the toughest jobs in Washington even without the cutthroat politics all around him. As America's insp...
Jun 26, 2020
U.S. lenders, businesses brace for disclosure on small business pandemic aid
By Pete Schroeder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Americans will soon get a first full look at which businesses received $515 billion of taxpayer funds when the government, after initial resistance by Presiden...
Jun 26, 2020
Most EU countries not doing enough to tackle air pollution, Commission says
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Most European Union countries are at risk of missing their targets for reducing health-damaging air pollution for both 2020 and 2030, the European Commission said o...
Jun 26, 2020
