Category Archives: Syndicated
Italy’s competition watchdog probes top banks over debt support measures
MILAN (Reuters) - Italy's antitrust regulator said it was probing four financial firms, including the country's top two banks, for allegedly withholding information and imposing unnecessary conditions...
Jun 11, 2020
Britain closes Euribor enquiry, withdraws arrest warrants
By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has withdrawn European Arrest Warrants against three German traders and one Frenchman after closing an eight-year investigatio...
Jun 11, 2020
Instacart valued at nearly $14 billion in latest funding amid online sales boom
By Uday Sampath Kumar (Reuters) - Instacart said on Thursday it had raised $225 million in a new funding round, valuing it at $13.7 billion, as the grocery delivery company cashes in on a surge in onl...
Jun 11, 2020
White House’s top lawyer at the Supreme Court to resign
By Jan Wolfe and Sarah N. Lynch (Reuters) - The U.S. government's top advocate before the Supreme Court, Noel Francisco, who defended President Donald Trump's policies, including the travel ban on peo...
Jun 11, 2020
U.S. Treasury’s Mnuchin considering changes to aid for national security firms
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Thursday he was considering possible changes to the definitions of companies that could access $17 billion in coronavirus aid for ...
Jun 11, 2020
U.S. Democratic candidate Biden urges Facebook to fact-check political ads
By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's campaign published an open letter to Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday, calling for the company to p...
Jun 11, 2020
Stock market rally of hope pauses as virus worries mount
By Thyagaraju Adinarayan and David Randall LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The reality that the coronavirus crisis is far from over is threatening a blistering equity market rally that had taken some worl...
Jun 11, 2020
British health minister urges protesters not to attend rallies
LONDON (Reuters) - British health minister Matt Hancock said on Thursday people should not attend large demonstrations for public health reasons after protests in support of the Black Lives Matter mov...
Jun 11, 2020
Russian health workers’ coronavirus compensation proves hard to get for some
By Polina Nikolskaya and Maria Vasilyeva MOSCOW (Reuters) - Yelena Nikonorova, a nurse in the Russian town of Belebey, took a new job on a hospital ward on April 1. Two days later, she went on sick le...
Jun 11, 2020
U.S. household wealth fell 5.6% in first quarter 2020 as coronavirus hit
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. household wealth fell 5.6% to $110.8 trillion in the first quarter of this year as U.S. stock markets were hammered by the escalating novel coronavirus epidemic, which has ...
Jun 11, 2020
